Sentence examples for droll about from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Kennedy appears to be a smart and passionate fellow — and droll about idiosyncratic family members we know in common.

Jack Black was similarly droll about his hard-rock project Tenacious D, calling his act an antidote to "the masculinity of rock".

How, when you go on tour with Keane, they are pretty droll about what the critics say, while well aware, in their understated way, that they are having the last laugh.

Touring the arena version of the kids' TV hit Balamory is fine as far as it goes (and Jupp is very droll about his association with that show), but it seriously restricts his freedom to watch the Ashes.

'I was sent the DVD of me in Macbeth, and there was this big, dramatic moment and I was thinking, this is looking good, and Myles came in and said, "Oh, Mummy, when are you going to do something good like Madagascar?"' She is also very droll about having gone to the Sylvia Young stage school in north London.

The result is a droll essay about an obsessed anthropologist laboring at the margins of respectability.

His White Hunter, Black Vest is a droll vignette about a "kitchen Hemingway" swatting a fly.

I remember they made me laugh uncommonly – there's a droll bit about a postilion's breeches".

Goldblum's droll line about the aliens' taste for smashing our landmarks is one of the few moments of wit.

RESULT Inserted the phrase into a droll bit about an anatomically themed truck accessory she had seen down South that was intended to make pickups look more masculine.

"My Mom Smokes Weed," directed by Clay Liford, is a droll tale about a young man who, against his will, takes his mother to buy some pot.