Sentence examples for droll irony from inspiring English sources
Dean Martin was impeccable and remote, from the top of his brilliantined curls to the muddy spikes of his golf shoes; from his exquisite comic timing to the butterscotch fluidity of his voice; from the droll irony with which he observed life to the passionate heat he inspired in others.
Macaulay's "Mill on Government," published in the March 1829 issue of The Edinburgh Review, is a remarkable mixture of logical criticism, irony, mordant wit, and droll parody.
They are what allow her Constance to triumph, while illuminating unexpected Shavian ironies in Maugham's droll charting of the intersection of economic and sexual power in the early 20th century.
Marriage: The Spaghetti "It was a good story -- a story we liked to tell when we were together," Max says, in the slightly droll drawl he uses when speaking about his marriage now, as if irony will obscure his sentiment when its actual effect is more like chiaroscuro.
He knows irony when he sees it, but here the act is not droll, just stupid.
Very droll, Keith Austin.
