Sentence examples for droll man from inspiring English sources

Alfred Hitchcock strikes me as a droll man who's creating a franchise of his own persona.' ".

Tillman, who is a very droll man, said "I'm honoured to have all the depressive, sad bastard people here – we deserve representation at this thing".

James Currin, the artist's father, is a tall, droll man who teaches physics at Purchase College, the State University of New York.

Alfred Hitchcock strikes me as a droll man who's creating a franchise of his own persona.' " Mr. Landis added: "This kind of grotesquery is traditional — it's circus, it's carnival, it's exploitation".

Mr. Robb is either as serious as a stone or the drollest man I have met.

Interviewed in 1999, he came across as a droll, articulate man who said the Nation of Islam religious organisation had shaped his thinking.

I always feel I've learned something from his broadcasts, whether he's predicting the outcome of an at-bat, making Chip Caray sound tolerable in the Cubs booth or playing droll straight man to Chip's bombastic grandfather.

A droll, cosmopolitan man with a degree from Penn State, Thinley, like his fellow Bhutanese guests that evening—four leading authors and media figures—was clothed in a gho, the belted robe that gives Bhutanese men a dressed-up-as-Galileo look.

He's a droll, mild-mannered man who grew up on a farm in Minnesota, owned a tavern for a while and sold real estate.

Kushner closed on the house in March of 1998; on April 16th of that year, at a party given by Michael Mayer, he met Harris, a droll and intelligent man, seven years his junior, and an editor at large at Entertainment Weekly.

Seeing Raducanu gently commanding absolute precision and sensitivity in each phrase sung by Enache reminded you that this droll, laid-back man aimed at perfection in every department of his art.