Sentence examples for a droll portrait of from inspiring English sources

Julia Darling's first novel, "Crocodile Soup," is a droll portrait of one such "lost English eccentric".

The invaluable Mr. Wilkof (late of "Kiss Me, Kate") and Ms. DiBuono bring a certain bite to "He and She," a droll portrait of a marriage.

We can only marvel, then, at their candor when faced with Nick Brandestini's camera in "Darwin," a droll and dusty portrait of a place where privacy is prized and boundaries respected.

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The mother has remarried; her husband is an amiable but inert lump of uppercrust WASP matter, one of many droll portraits drawn from that bastion of stricken privilege: "a particular brand of New York Calvinism that had strong opinions about predestination and free will, their existence justified by their own success".

Vigoleis also provides droll portraits — or are they caricatures?

Summers, now 70, has a droll sense of humour.

Mr. Gable had a droll sense of humor, Mr. Parsons recalled.

But behind her imperious manner lurked a droll sense of humour.

Val Strazovec's production design offers a droll collection of snowy English rooftops and atmospheric street scenes.

His LinkedIn account is also testament to a droll sense of humour with a minimal CV.