I included their exchange as a droll scene in my piece.
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".
It's followed by an inoffensively droll scene of Queen Cersei talking her way out of her interest loans leave it to this show to dramatize an audit opposite the Iron Bank's spokesgoon, Tycho Nestoris, whom she plans to pay off using Highgarden's pilfered coffers.
Mr and Mrs Smith featured very droll scenes of them side-by-side on the couch, in archly "civilian" mode, apparently attending couples therapy.
"There are some entertaining things about New Moon: Stewart is developing as an actor in a way Pattinson isn't, and there are droll scenes in which some characters go and see films," writes our own Peter Bradshaw.
There are some entertaining things about New Moon: Stewart is developing as an actor in a way Pattinson isn't, and there are droll scenes in which some characters go and see films.
Mixed in with the depictions of labor are droll scenes of a wedding and a community-hall dance, both disrupted by Pasi's drinking, as well as rhapsodic portrayals of fishing, hunting and hiking that establish the reverence for nature underlying Pasi's, and Niskanen's, worldview.
The mercurial succession of those expressions is the only thing in the movie that keeps its tempo up and its energy high; McKinnon gets to do a droll dance scene, has a couple of whiz-bang double takes, and delivers the movie's payoff moment, when she takes out a pair of high-tech ghost-busting pistols of her own invention and, before taking aim, licks one of them.
"His gallows comedy gives a hefty kick, many sections are beautifully droll, and some scenes are hilarious".
Among the movie's other virtues are its terrifically droll, though brief, scenes of soap-opera production — one from its early days on live television, and one, in a flashback, from its waning days on radio.
On the same program is "Bete de Scene," a droll 18-minute French film by Bernard Nissille, with an amusing theatrical setting.
