But I like my Brit baddies to have droll dialogue (like Loki in The Avengers), and John Harrison has none; he does all this supercool gazing, even when he is getting punched repeatedly in the face, but he is the tiniest bit dull.
When they aren't working their separate cases (the cops have to contend with two mob murders), Jesse and Sunny flirt like mad, sharing morsels of Parker's droll dialogue like lovers feeding each other chocolate truffles.
There are also simple graphs that explain complex concepts like a yield curve, as well as interesting and occasionally droll asides like this: "Defined-contribution plans overseas are often referred to as schemes -- a term that doesn't have the negative connotation abroad that it has in American English".
She said droll things, like: "It's so sad to be called after a quiche".
This is facetious and droll, but like many a good joke it contains a deal of veracity.
Mr. Bowman's book is a work of synthesis, the kind of literary production that droll academics like to refer to as "Read 10 books, write an 11th".
The scientists are dead or driven mad by a virus, but the security system still works, dolling out droll comments like "a happy worker is an efficient worker, and only efficient workers will be fed".
Notes with place settings pose droll questions like these: "What if the hokeypokey really is what it's all about?" and "If No. 2 pencils are the most popular, then why are they still No. 2?" W's own pencils, by the way, write in white.
Henry Kissinger had a flabby mouth he was fond of using to make droll comments, like calling power the ultimate aphrodisiac, an aphorism he repeated so many times people started to believe it, encouraged by his own tendency to pose for the paparazzi at dinners and cocktail parties with a platinum-blond socialite or an aspiring starlet on his arm.
Last July, New Zealand ushered in a world-first law aimed at regulating controversial synthetic drugs and herbal highs that get sold over-the-counter with droll names like Kronic, Thai Hi and Giggle.
