Sentence examples for it so droll from inspiring English sources

What makes it so droll is the unusual juxtapositions, barbed dialogue ("Yes, she is still a virgin. With her it's some sort of perversion"), the collapsing pomposity - Buñuel had a lot in common with Monty Python - and the overall oddness.

Mr. Heston is not always so droll.

Mr. Dini said that Mr. Pont was aware of his friend's checkered past, but that Mr. Bertoldi was so droll that Mr. Pont came to admire and fear him.

In Sense and Sensibility there are the richly comic idiolects of the likes of Mrs Jennings ("I am monstrous glad to see you") and Charlotte Palmer ("Mr Palmer is so droll... He is always out of humour").

In keeping with this feeling--the constant lie taken as the truth--Fiks's paintings are so droll, so bluntly banal, that they verge on humorous.

The costumes by Clint Ramos are functional enough, although the dress made of stitched-together Metrocards is not nearly so droll as the specimen in the 2010 production.

Buffington argued that the tone doesn't just discourage the harassers and bullies, but also helps distinguish the app from other anonymous services — so Droll said it's closer to Twitter than Secret or Whisper.

Bill Murray's face: so droll, so deadpan, so subtly eloquent of a hyper-satirical sensibility to everything around him.

There can only be one person claiming a YikYak screen name, so Droll will be the only "Tyler" on Yik Yak, forcing this reporter to pick "Tyler88" or some other variation.

"We designed it so that it will work anywhere," said Droll.

Now it's not so much droll as dull.