Sentence examples for a droll man from inspiring English sources

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Alfred Hitchcock strikes me as a droll man who's creating a franchise of his own persona.' ".

Alfred Hitchcock strikes me as a droll man who's creating a franchise of his own persona.' " Mr. Landis added: "This kind of grotesquery is traditional — it's circus, it's carnival, it's exploitation".

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James Currin, the artist's father, is a tall, droll man who teaches physics at Purchase College, the State University of New York.

Tillman, who is a very droll man, said "I'm honoured to have all the depressive, sad bastard people here – we deserve representation at this thing".

Interviewed in 1999, he came across as a droll, articulate man who said the Nation of Islam religious organisation had shaped his thinking.

A droll, cosmopolitan man with a degree from Penn State, Thinley, like his fellow Bhutanese guests that evening—four leading authors and media figures—was clothed in a gho, the belted robe that gives Bhutanese men a dressed-up-as-Galileo look.

Mr. Robb is either as serious as a stone or the drollest man I have met.

He's a droll, mild-mannered man who grew up on a farm in Minnesota, owned a tavern for a while and sold real estate.

Kushner closed on the house in March of 1998; on April 16th of that year, at a party given by Michael Mayer, he met Harris, a droll and intelligent man, seven years his junior, and an editor at large at Entertainment Weekly.

The late Robert Sheckley, a droll and affable man, and a writer whose fiction I admired, took me out to lunch on the Omni tab and gave me two pieces of sage advice: I should never, under any circumstances, sign a multi-book contract, and neither should I "buy that big old house".

Like the late, far graver German doer of things, Joseph Beuys, he makes the most of being photogenic: tall and gangling, a droll scarecrow of a man.

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