Sentence examples for Quite droll from inspiring English sources

Some were quite droll, but many, unfortunately, fell into the "ce n'est pas drôle" category.

Even if you're suffering from neck-biter fatigue, this is a visually delicious, often quite droll and moving treat.

He's quite droll at it, and so are Sanyal, Harrison and Roscioli, who have the charm, intelligence, pathos, dexterity and sex appeal required.

Claude's is undeniably rather droll.

The Princess arrived with husband and turned out to be quite splendid, droll, with at least three manners, all beguiling.

DLM's "concept", conceived by Hannon (The Divine Comedy) and Walsh (Pugwash), isn't quite as droll as the first time around on The Duckworth-Lewis Method.

Pitched at a carefully contemporary feminist tangent by the gifted playwright Lauren Gunderson, working here with Margot Melcon, "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley" is a droll and quite delicious seasonal sequel to "Pride and Prejudice," a period pairing of Mary with a gentleman as awkwardly bookish as herself and thus a celebration of nerd love in all its overeducated glory.

Quite so: Hitchcock is often droll and cantankerous.

It's spliced with video images that are seldom quite as they seem; the droll, deadpan Noble and Silver conduct meticulously timed conversations with their recorded selves.

Quite possibly, you cannot even be droll without English citizenship.

A savage, funny novel whose droll heroine can't quite take it seriously when her plane is hijacked; one culprit, a terrorist-anthropologist interested in "essential human morality," rigs perverse ethical situations for his hostages, forcing them to make decisions with one another's lives.