Sentence examples for droll weird from inspiring English sources

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In his urbane, droll, weird yet far from charmless account of the pain and misery suffered by his body in general, and by his bladder, prostate, penis and related bits in particular, the conversion is from a cerebral, anxious, hunched-over and compulsively verbal kvetch (not his term, but the literal "squeeze" makes the Yiddish word seem appropriate) to something resembling the opposite.

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The first is a woefully distended scene of hermetic fantasy that matters only for its payoff: a steampunk wall panel does weird things to Agent Cooper (and, in the conceit's one droll touch, leaves him, or a version of him, shoeless).

"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.

How droll.

Very droll, Keith Austin.

Very droll.

His delivery was droll.

How delightfully droll!

Digressive and droll?

Very droll, very British Army.

Wasn't it droll?

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