Not all comic writers are that droll in person.
In person, he is droll, handsome, tough and self-contained.
The photography of "Civil isation" is breathtaking in its sensitivity and implemen tation of Lord Clark's goal: To use art, sculpture and mechanical design as a vis ible and unalterable record of the past, Lord Clark, moreover, is a true commu nicator with his quiet wit, scholarship and droll per formance as a TV person ality.
There are droll encounters with simple, cunning nut-brown persons, continent by continent, books where you can hear the jokes being harvested, cut and squeezed like dry lemons.
Appearing sporadically throughout the play, she becomes the one-person Greek chorus who offers droll, yet slightly enigmatic one-liners, insight that pierces through the denial, anger, bargaining and depression.
The film is laden with classic film noir features moody black-and-white cinematography, shadows galore, two-timing women, and plenty of plot twists and it retains the first-person narrative, snappy dialogue, and droll asides characteristic of Chandler's famed detective.
There can only be one person claiming a YikYak screen name, so Droll will be the only "Tyler" on Yik Yak, forcing this reporter to pick "Tyler88" or some other variation.
It will also have to submit to a review by a three-person monitoring committee — Mr. Orban adopted a droll tone in referring to it as it is commonly known, "the council of the wise" — that will determine if the Hungarian government is meeting several conditions.
With its flickering fluorescent ceiling panels, weirdly flipping wall clock and three-person workforce who punch in data in synch, Steve Marmion's clever, darkly droll production is attuned from the outset to the lunacy latent in this milieu.
Tobin's moral compass has gone haywire; even his decision to travel to the town of Midlothia to defend his book in person is made not on principle but on the promise of perks from his agent, Bruno (the droll David Greenspan).
