He's also extremely droll, a word rarely used in proximity to the term "Nixonian".
Through Feb. 21 "Mute," an exhibition of five artists associated with Lisson Gallery in London, provides little visual excitement but offers some more or less droll approaches to words and sounds.
He can convey so much with a single "Really?" In the dictionary his photo should be right next to the word "droll".
He can turn Chekhov's words into droll, sour music with the gentlest of emphasis: "Wonderful with the sick," he says of Arkadina's shows of compassion.
Throughout, Kevin Conway reads Twain's words effectively with droll understatement ("I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off").
But perhaps the most haunting observations come from the uncouth Dull Gret (the droll Ana Reeder), who speaks few words but all of them pungent.
In his usual droll but direct manner, Dufner offered three words to the smart aleck — "week ago, clown" — with a photo of him and Brandt Snedeker holding the trophy for their team win in the unofficial Franklin Templeton Shootout in Florida.
The choice of the word "propensity" would have seemed droll, were any Congress capable of drollery.
I don't remember the details of his riffs, so you'll just have to take my word for it: he was droll, witty, sharp, and at once self-deprecating and merciless to his fellow politicians.
Droll in themselves, they need Mr. Wright's clever words to activate them.
He sang plain and square-cut, "Brandy's brandy, any way you mix it, a Texian's a Texian any way you fix it," and the listeners laughed at the droll way he rolled out "fix it," the words surely meaning castration.
