Sentence examples for droll lines from inspiring English sources

The droll lines play on the gush of romantic idealization; Eurydice is a girl who really has found her god.

He produces a scatter of droll lines, deadpan-handled by Paltrow and Richard Coyle (who gives a nicely judged performance as the geek whom Paltrow finds 'well - not totally boring').

Beeton has a droll line or two as well.

He has a droll line in self-effacement.

At least Ms. Beckwith spins a reasonably droll line in solipsistic comedy-of-manners banter.

Goldblum's droll line about the aliens' taste for smashing our landmarks is one of the few moments of wit.

It sounds like a droll line that you'd use at a dinner party, but in my case it's true.

You may not marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?" Marilyn Monroe's unimprovably droll line ­epitomises the pizzazz of Howard Hawks's tremendous musical ­comedy.

Some brilliant publishing person or cabal saw the pleasure in these tales -- anarchy masked as propriety -- and decided, brilliantly, to engage Brett Helquist to do the spiky and droll line drawings.

Among all this, there's a droll line about the EU vote teaching (some) Tories what it's like to be leftwing: correct but on the losing side, subject to the opinion of the obviously wrong-headed.

At the Bottom Line on Thursday night, amid a droll line of between-song patter, Mr. Bragg praised Guthrie as a both a punk forebear and a lyricist who "mixes the personal with the political". He chose Guthrie lyrics that can be whimsical and rude, affectionate and pensive, connecting them back to Elizabethan ballads and forward to Guthrie's rock heirs.