Sentence examples for droll funny from inspiring English sources

Droll, funny and feisty, he was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by his family and friends.

They were fantastic climbers, but at the same time, wonderfully droll, funny people with a strong sense of the ridiculous.

He was also quick-witted, droll, very funny and magnetic, qualities that earned him the moniker "the Dorothy Parker of HIV".

"Less droll or funny than 'The Avengers,' 'The Dark Knight Rises' is, however, a dark, surprisingly topical, state-of-the-art pop-movie apocalypse for our times.

She was funny, droll, and we could have a natter about who Mr Darcy really was, because apparently he might have been based on a real person in her life.

The deliciously subversive and multi-talented Harry Shearer, whose syndicated radio program Le Show is as droll, biting, and funny as ever after 21 years.

Jon Lovitz however steals away with another movie, thanks to his droll and very funny turn as a mattress king looking to get into casinos.

"A Summer's Tale" is droll but not exactly funny.

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

"It's lively stuff with funny lines, droll cameos from Mark Wahlberg and James Franco, and a nice running gag about Jeanne Tripplehorn".

Katharine Weber's novel, which stops being droll only to be funny and almost never stops being exceedingly smart, is a hermit crab.