drollery

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The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

Lapine’s book is marvelously inventive, full of elbow-nudging drollery and melancholy rumination.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

She has a fine sense of drollery, her timing is exquisite, and her manner gentle and touching when the plot darkens and calamity looms.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022

Stapylton joined in the laugh with which M'Cormick welcomed his own drollery.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James