Sentence examples for droll manner from inspiring English sources

It is all entertaining stuff, skilfully assembled and described in a fairly droll manner.

Says woodcocks often play in very droll manner, run round and round each other in small circles, with wings lifted and bills pointed nearly to the zenith.

The album opens in suitably droll manner with "Race Of Life", a sperm's story of how he "pulled that one out of the bag" (ahem) and beat his wriggly chums to the egg.

Asked whether his elusive working habits had given him a James Bond-like aura, he seemed to savor the question for a moment and then answered in his characteristically droll manner.

"It's weird that people would even ask, why 4 44?" Mr. Brown, 58, remarked in the same droll manner once seen in his "Weekend Update" segments on "Saturday Night Live" during the 1980s, and again on "The Daily Show," in the mid-'90s.

Since the 1960s, David Diao has made work in a self-aware dialogue with art history, art market forces, and personal experience, in characteristically self-effacing, droll manner.

Lang, who is fifty-nine and has a droll, sanguine manner, was with his wife, the artist Suzanne Bocanegra.

Further to your obituary of Jackie Leven (17 November), when I was writing a book about the British on holiday, and wanted to include a chapter on cruising, a mutual friend put me in touch with the singer-songwriter, who in his droll Scottish manner told me about his experience as the "entertainment" on a two-week cruise of the Norwegian fjords in 2002.

Gusev, in the story of that title, dies a death as ­moving, in its understated way, as any of the great deaths in short fiction, but its pathos is all implicit; the outward detail being noted in precisely the kind of droll, off-kilter manner in which Gusev himself sees things.

In his usual droll but direct manner, Dufner offered three words to the smart aleck — "week ago, clown" — with a photo of him and Brandt Snedeker holding the trophy for their team win in the unofficial Franklin Templeton Shootout in Florida.

Since the mid-1970s, Lively has been folding philosophical contemplation into the psychological analysis of her characters, melding the novel of ideas with the droll novel of manners.