Sentence examples for droll remarks from inspiring English sources

When he conducts town meetings in Sony factories, he occasionally slips in droll remarks that might elude the workers.

Strolling up and down the skeleton course, on Friday night at the Whistler Sliding Centre, brought to mind the motor-race scene in "Vile Bodies," except in place of Waugh's dissolute Bright Young Things there were little pods of scraggly snowboarder dudes, in low-slung stovepipe jeans, ironic toques, and reflector shades, drinking beer and making droll remarks.

By Nick Paumgarten February 21 , 2010Strolling up and down the skeleton course, on Friday night at the Whistler Sliding Centre, brought to mind the motor-race scene in "Vile Bodies," except in place of Waugh's dissolute Bright Young Things there were little pods of scraggly snowboarder dudes, in low-slung stovepipe jeans, ironic toques, and reflector shades, drinking beer and making droll remarks.

This notwithstanding, I am obliged to relate a droll remark that he may have made during his callow years.

It's a little odd, too, because -- despite Mrs. Hawkeye's perfectly droll remark to her husband that she totally supports him in his avenging -- the Avengers are not about avenging.

He's being droll again, but the remark feels poignant.

Yet as one of her characters remarks during a droll scene in which four young people dub an episode of "Sex and the City" and Sean Penn's performance in "Milk" for clandestine distribution, "in this place, everything that's illegal is subversive".

Across the road from the Dickens house is the former home of the Rev Sydney Smith, the droll Anglican clergyman who once remarked that some people's idea of Heaven was "eating pâté de fois gras to the sound of trumpets".

"Walking in Delhi," he remarks in this dizzying, droll travelogue, "especially if you're large and whitish, and clearly above the poverty line, can make you an object of disbelief and ridicule".

"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.

This is typical of the remarks he makes, which are droll and arch and often culminate in a camp giggle.