Sentence examples for droll style from inspiring English sources

"I was never for Nixon until Watergate," Mr. Evans quipped in the droll style that became his trademark.

"BOSTON is still in the pits...in Florida it's like death takes a holiday...Las Vegas is now terrible...Michigan may be a situation where it doesn't come back .Robert Toll, chief executive of Toll Brothers, one of America's biggest builder of luxury homes, has a droll style.

A pretty good comedian with a droll style on a marginal cable show on a network that few folks had ever heard of.

Roger Ebert in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Two things, however, make Raiders of the Lost Ark more than just a technological triumph: its sense of humor and the droll style of its characters We find ourselves laughing in surprise, in relief, in incredulity at the movie's ability to pile one incident upon another in an inexhaustible series of inventions".

K-2SO is hulking and dark, more like Ted Hughes's Iron Man in miniature, but with a droll way of objecting to orders; his style in backtalk involves a nicely timed deferred punchline.

Her droll, offbeat style, mostly joking about herself and sparring with her audiences, proved to have wide appeal.

The Art Guys are Mike Galbreth and Jack Massing and they have been producing droll, Dada-style performances and objects for more than 20 years.

Hugh Jackman's skills as a song-and-dance man were put to good use in the droll S.N.L.-style opening parody number (I was glad to hear "excrement" rhymed with "sentiment") but the big production number, featuring eight decades' worth of songs, beginning and ending with one from Fred Astaire's "Top Hat," was overwrought and dull.

His show was loose and disconnected, delivered in a droll, semi-stoned style that allowed him to ramble gently from one topic to the next.

Keith Andrews, the director and choreographer, has substituted a droll and deadpan style for the often frantic and hard-to-follow pace of the Broadway show, which won three Tony Awards.

They are narrated in a droll and detached style, which shows influences most noticeably of Oscar Wilde and Roald Dahl, with some hints of Lewis Carroll's nonsensical logic and a dash of Monty Python.