Sentence examples for droll effects from inspiring English sources

In France in the early 17th century, the designer Daniel Rabel worked inventively, producing many witty and droll effects and costumes of grotesque conception.

There are other droll effects: synchronised dance routines for wheelchairs; characters jumping through floorboards on to the stage; a few perky rhyming couplets and some neck-twistings which are accompanied by sickeningly loud clicks.

This sweet and witty production was created in 2011 for Juan Diego Flórez, and he returns here with his customary command of comic timing and a boyish enthusiasm for the droll effects afforded by Catherine Zuber's magnificently silly costumes.

Sometimes this was for droll effect — at one point Freud and Jung, visiting New York at the same time, take an amusement park boat ride together through the tunnel of love — and sometimes for the sake of narrative drama and thematic impact.

Drolly timed, they are droll in effect, but the only outright laughter comes canned, as part of James Lo's intermittent sound score.

Indeed, the somewhat awkward-looking Hercules and Mars in this show faithfully quote particular ancient sculptures, with a droll montage effect rather like that of the appropriated figures in Manet's "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe".

But Westlake is also a card with characters, and he flashes that talent to terrific effect here with droll profiles of the vulpine lawyers, crooked casino operators, lying petitioners and outraged Indians who file before a beady-eyed judge with a distinct aversion for cases as "excessively interesting" as this one.

Directed by Vadim Jean, who adapted the books with help from Mr. Pratchett, it is by and large a droll, ingratiating affair, albeit one whose rickety effects and lackadaisical pacing are decidedly more suited to the small screen than to the large.

Moving on... "...liberals prefer invective to engagement," she writes, "The hate-mongering and name-calling on the left might be a droll irrelevancy, except that it has a debilitating effect on real issues".

We have the same special effects in the presentation of aliens, and the same droll humor from the Men In Black agents.

The formalities of the brothel have a claustrophobic effect but the heroine is slyly funny in droll street encounters.