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These sorts of surprises bloom from the center of Olivia Wilde’s latest directorial effort, “The Invite,” a chamber comedy that’s equal parts droll and disarming.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

An obvious model for the film is “Babe,” but minus the droll wit, the inspired lunacy and the filigreed plot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

But they also find droll humor in the artifices and absurdities that some see in the genre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

McDermott had perfectly employed James as the droll animatronic Disneyland Lincoln in his animation-friendly, slightly goofy production of “Perfect American” in Madrid, where the opera premiered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

They were fuzzy, droll little creatures who grew at a tremendous rate.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

Dickens fans will doubtless remember some of the droller names of the characters in his novels, elaborated in the journal he called his Book of Memoranda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

This is a subtler gesture than a few of the show's droller tourist traps, some of them macabre, and some stereotypical to the brink of begging you to scan the background for mimes in berets.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023

The plot, presented in a droller and less hysterical vein in the novel that inspired it, is a sci-fi variation on the theme of social paranoia that has long ruled teenage entertainment.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019

One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

At gatherings, droller members of the audience would sometimes ask him if he could get his elements to play them a little tune.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The drollest dairy origin story belongs to Rhoda Rindge Adamson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

Its not-so-secret weapon, though, is in its driest and drollest performance — that of priceless Tracy Lynn Olivera as the dragoon’s long-suffering better half, Charlotte.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2017

The Division’s drollest commentary comes from the art directors that underplayed the post-outbreak grime.

From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016

The opening statement — "Any resemblance to persons living or dead is, as they say, coincidental" — is among the drollest in Chabrol's oeuvre.

From Time ● Sep. 15, 2010

This Heqet must be the drollest fellow in Egypt.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw