Sentence examples for droll laugh from inspiring English sources

A man of the world, he was at ease everywhere — though he once said, "To me, home is wherever Annette is," then added with a droll laugh, "She could be unbelievably happy without me".

Although droll rather than laugh-out-loud funny, this is a smart and immensely enjoyable romcom.

The arrangements, with trumpets cackling and clarinets fluttering above a droll sousaphone bass line, laugh their way through songs full of romance and heartbreak.

He sang plain and square-cut, "Brandy's brandy, any way you mix it, a Texian's a Texian any way you fix it," and the listeners laughed at the droll way he rolled out "fix it," the words surely meaning castration.

I love Herzog's droll voiceovers, they always make me laugh.

For all the droll gags, the audience did not laugh nearly as hard as it probably once would have at this kind of routine.

Both dancers overplayed the air of droll innocence, milking the audience for laughs, but there is a rigor to Ms. Driscoll's work that underpins its chaotic appearance.

I remember they made me laugh uncommonly – there's a droll bit about a postilion's breeches".

Roger Ebert in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Two things, however, make Raiders of the Lost Ark more than just a technological triumph: its sense of humor and the droll style of its characters We find ourselves laughing in surprise, in relief, in incredulity at the movie's ability to pile one incident upon another in an inexhaustible series of inventions".

In its review of this edition The Bookman s critic wrote of Charles Pooter: "You laugh at him at his small absurdities, his droll mishaps, his well-meaning fussiness; but he wins upon you and obtains your affection, and even your admiration, he is so transparently honest, so delightfully and ridiculously human".

But by calling this one 100% Fresh, Sandler is winking to his critics, responding to decades of harsh reviews with an undeniably good special, one where he reminds the world that behind years of box office droll is an effortlessly gifted comic who can still produce laughs in any era.