One example is the droll case of 'directed panspermia' in the camp of 'almost miracles' [ 84].
Beginning with the 1948 surrender of Nazareth to Israeli soldiers, Suleiman plays a silent observer of events, sometimes droll, sometimes melancholic, and displaying the sort of level-headedness one wishes those involved in the peace process would show.
In any event, it is droll to find politicians shocked, shocked at the notion that money matters in politics.
Mr. Bryson's droll point of view even renders past events palatable for nonhistory buffs: I'd never known that the explorer Jean-Francois de la Perouse just missed claiming Australia for France, thus, notes Mr. Bryson, saving the country from 200 years of English cooking.
With grim courage and a droll sense of humor, he recounts the tortuous events that followed his confession.
Dressed in the trademark tuxedos she trots out for fancy events, DeGeneres was even-keeled and droll.
ONE is a droll essayist who churns out satiric accounts of local events at a prolific pace while seated on a sand dune, has published a weekly with his first name on it since 1965 and claims to have more readers in the Hamptons than any other publisher.
The British kind.' " Aphorism -- the English version, anyway, in which there is no event or moment that cannot be made into a droll maxim of one sort or another -- is at the heart of "Who's Who in Hell".
Tim Curry is a perfect choice to narrate the droll, ironic Lemony Snicket novels in "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
In spite of Hellboy's apocalyptic tone and its dark visuals, the series also had its share of comedic moments, as Mignola's droll wit infused Hellboy with a blasé attitude that belied the fantastic events around him.
With a droll sense of humor, he enjoys making sport of the topsy-turvy, sometimes bizarre course of events in state politics, particularly of late.
