Sentence examples similar to droll individual from inspiring English sources

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In an 1894 article, Hamlin Garland wrote that Riley's celebrity resulted from his reading talent, saying "his vibrant individual voice, his flexible lips, his droll glance, united to make him at once poet and comedian comedian in the sense in which makes for tears as well as for laughter".

After certifying that Reiser's statements of fact are correct, the scientist adds: "What has perhaps been overlooked is the irrational, the inconsistent, the droll, even the insane, which nature, inexhaustibly operative, implants in an individual, seemingly for her own amusement".

The lyrics are droll and clever, and the gifted cast uses the show-stopping musical numbers to create memorable individual portraits.

Conspicuously rejecting individual primacy, he gave his Rotterdam firm a blandly anonymous name, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (with the typically droll twist that the acronym OMA means "grandmother" in his native Dutch).

How droll.

Very droll.

Very droll, Keith Austin.

His delivery was droll.

How delightfully droll!

Digressive and droll?

Very droll, very British Army.

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