Sentence examples for more droll from inspiring English sources

Would Fischli/Weiss and Roman Signer fight over who's more droll?

More graceful than Steven Seagal, more droll than Jet Li, more charming than Bruce Willis.

More droll than disquieting, he is not yet a fully-fledged bad guy.

His humor, when it succeeds, is less bro-slapstick and more droll or maybe ironic, something Bush himself has acknowledged doesn't play well on the campaign trail.

Two New York bands that are fond of meticulously orchestrated 1960's pop share this bill: the pensive Silent League, led by Justin Russo, and the slightly more droll Melomane.

But much of the transformation of the Queen's image, from the chilly, notoriously philistinic matriarch who couldn't care less about Diana to an ever more droll and sympathetic mentor to pitifully grateful prime ministers is surely attributable to Mirren's superb acting, and to the writers who have increasingly depicted the monarch as – so long as you are not Margaret Thatcher – fabulous company.

Jack Worthing, this play's proper, endearingly puffed-up gentleman, is echoed in Frasier; Jack's more foppish, droll brother (as it turns out), Algernon Moncrieff, is Niles.

"Oh, how more than droll," she says, mocking one of Anna's insults; and when Anna claims to be younger than Claire she counters, "What?

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.

This is the War Room!" now seem more labored than deliciously droll.

Her tone has grown less droll and more elegiac, and on Wednesday night what once seemed offhanded or oblique had turned chillingly prophetic.