Sentence examples for droll take from inspiring English sources
LP See also: EyePlayer – Private Eye's droll take on major media stories.
Tom Robinson's droll take on the pressures of being a man shows a debilitating process of conditioning from the playground onwards.
But those who care less about such stuff than about being entertained will find plenty to like in this ghoulish comedy, a droll take on one of the most notorious mass-murder cases of the 19th century.
"Distant" ("Uzak") is almost like a droll take on "The Odd Couple"; can two men live together without driving each other crazy (especially in an apartment that's gray and oppressive even by Manhattan standards)?
As slow and quiet as the film may be much of the time, it has several broader strokes — a bitterly funny sight gag by Mr. Bastounes, a subtly menacing sexual come-on to Ms. Macdonald, a droll take on an office Christmas party — all invented by Mr. Keaton, none involving his own character.
True to form, Nate provides a droll take on said smooch, calling it "soft and warm, like the inside of a bagel".
Then we trotted over to Starbucks, where Ms. Scott, who can be very droll, took surreptitious cellphone photos of Chelsea boys and professed to have never before heard of a gingerbread latte.
A surprising find was the account by Luisa Stuart, once a celebrated model, tracked down because she featured in a droll photograph taken with Hoover and Tolson one New Year's Eve in the late 1930s at the Stork Club – the place to be seen in New York at the time.
Well, it could be... ...... Now a writer on Saturday Night Live and one of Rolling Stone's 'Top 50 Funniest People' this year, the 30-year-old New Yorker does eventually get to take a droll stroll around a range of unrelated topics.
The Mauldin myth, that he was a droll fellow who took puckish pride in stirring up trouble, curdled in later decades.
Reggie Watts – no stranger to UK comedy fans – is also in on the musical comedy act, recreating Rick Astley's 1987 video Never Gonna Give You Up – which is a droll idea that takes its viewers so far and no further.
