Sentence examples for droll humour from inspiring English sources

But there are flashes of droll humour, the actors are engaging and there is a lively vulgarity.

Although her outward crankiness and droll humour might tell you otherwise, Apfel says her twilight career has been a lifeline.

They discussed writing, and Blythe enjoyed her droll humour although he felt "a terrible darkness" in her preoccupation with psychopaths.

Thanks to its fiendish storylines and droll humour, Sherlock has been a critical and audience hit for the BBC.

As often with Toews's writing, the poignancy of this story is accentuated by its autobiographical source and its droll humour.

It had my back before bearded folk lothario Father John Misty and his swoon-some melting pot of Chris Isaak, Americana, droll humour and pant-fizzing swagger.

Droll, in full Droll-humour, or Drollery, short comic scene or farce adapted from an existing play or created by actors, performed in England during the period of the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth (1642 60) while the London theatres were closed down by the Puritans.

The air of reverie is heightened by exacting draughtsmanship, then undercut by droll visual humour.

Robey's biographer Peter Cotes disagreed with these assessments, praising the comedian's "droll like humour" and comparing it in greatness to Chaplin's miming and Grock's clowning.

His nickname suggests a droll wit.

Melia had a droll sense of humour and a dry wit.