If there were ever a place for droll philosophy humor, it was here.
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.
There's a punch-in-the-stomach potency about Mountjoy – "What those in power do to you reminds us at a glance/ How humans hate each other's guts and show it given a chance" – while Kiss Me a Lot's "Kiss me all over my face /Kiss me all over the place" is pretty droll stuff.
We can only marvel, then, at their candor when faced with Nick Brandestini's camera in "Darwin," a droll and dusty portrait of a place where privacy is prized and boundaries respected.
When Cary Grant's Jerry Warriner makes droll fun of Oklahoma City as a place animated by its own irrelevance, we're not meant to condemn the sentiment but thoroughly appreciate the urbanity enlivening it.
A game? Or a droll way of saying that, seen from intergalactic space, those two places are really quite close to each other?
The Keegan performances are more competent than lustrous, but the characterizations are clear and droll, and the stage business clicks seamlessly into place on Matthew J. Keenan's set, depicting adjoining motel rooms.
When Donnelly observes that he doesn't seem upset, the Kid answers, "Well, she wasn't the most pleasant of women, I'm sure life goes on," taking his place in a long line of droll, parent-hating McDonagh characters.
He won a Tony for the droll wit of the musical's book in the first place and took on screenplay duties for the film, ensuring that the way his words intertwined so tightly with Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning music and lyrics on stage would remain intact.
(With its wide-open desolation, Phoenix works as the place an alien would find inviting.) The film is droll and organized; in their meticulousness, Mr. Nichols and Mr. Shandling are a little too much in sync.
