Sentence examples for droll comments from inspiring English sources

Scattered through the film like carrot seed on fresh tilled earth are many droll comments and witty observation.

The scientists are dead or driven mad by a virus, but the security system still works, dolling out droll comments like "a happy worker is an efficient worker, and only efficient workers will be fed".

Henry Kissinger had a flabby mouth he was fond of using to make droll comments, like calling power the ultimate aphrodisiac, an aphorism he repeated so many times people started to believe it, encouraged by his own tendency to pose for the paparazzi at dinners and cocktail parties with a platinum-blond socialite or an aspiring starlet on his arm.

After a minute, Priestland reappeared, repeating the bulletin, but this time adding his own occasional droll comments after stories.

And 20 minutes later Garry responded with one of his trademark droll comments.

"Most satirists mock institutions or events or politicians; Winters mocked the yokels next door with a home (though bizarre) brand of cartoon commentary, sketching and sculpting characters with droll comments that work like balloons above their heads".

The pair exchange droll comment on natural selection.

Lebedev wrote a droll comment piece on Jeremy Paxman's beard for the paper some 18 months ago, which described the Standard proprietor in the standfirst as "London's beard guru".

In 1819, in another letter to Augusta Leigh, Byron described two and a half-year-old Allegra as "very droll" and again commented on her resemblance to himself in physical appearance, temperament and interests: "(She) has a very good deal of the Byron.

Then he found his own answer to Warhol's Brillo boxes: wry, droll or superficial statements, often comments on the South or the venality of Hollywood ("Maybe Now I'll Get the Respect I So Richly Deserve"), scrambled on a canvas or meticulously emblazoned across cheesy landscape paintings.

At the outset of the film, in a droll intertitle, he makes a playful comment on the fact that the shooting took place in a location far from where the events are depicted in the novel, because idyllic countryside has been replaced by concrete jungles.