drollery

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

At his most winning despite his character’s lethal nature, Gyllenhaal keeps up the one-liners and drollery.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

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

And Pierce, maximizing the situational drollery, treats the character as though he were kin to one of the Gilbert & Sullivan figures he performed with aplomb in his apprenticeship days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

It was the humorous side of life, even of the tragedies of life, that appealed to him, and he reflected it back with an incisive drollery which was irresistible.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Frederic Taber Cooper

Mencken–esque drolleries that serve nobody but their own egos.

From Time ● Sep. 21, 2011

It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010

That they somehow manage to sustain the deadpan drolleries and laugh-out-loud situations is truly remarkable.

From Time Magazine Archive

With her sandpiper walk and her sandpaper voice, Ruth Gordon jigs and jaws through meandering monologues evenly divided between past loves and barroom drolleries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon her wit had effaced the impression of her personal unattractiveness; "and the eyes, which were so plain at first, swam with fun and drolleries, and the very tides of joy and superabundant life."

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe