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

Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 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

"Mr. Boyesen's stories possess a sweetness, a tenderness, and a drollery that are fascinating, and yet they are no more attractive than they are strong."

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier

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

These drolleries are best digested over an espresso at a Sutri cafe; failing that, any Starbucks will do.

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

And all had some story to tell of the Duke!—some little trait of kindness, or some of those drolleries in which he would occasionally indulge, but ever without loss of dignity.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers