Sentence examples for particularly droll from inspiring English sources

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Among the lively cast, Sarah-Jane Drummey are particularlyare particularly droll.

As Luke's niece Anne, Lucy Briggs-Owen is a particularly droll grotesque, scarlet lips twitching in a white-powdered face, between a pretty pout and a snarl, as the eyeliss bat brainlessly.

John Heffernan, as an assistant stage manager stepping up to fill a vacant acting spot, is particularly droll as he manfully, sceptically, assumes the part of a talking chair.

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Which is the sort of question asked by a man who was sometimes pugnacious and occasionally splenetic, but was just as often droll and generous - particularly to actors, directors and (a rare quality this) other writers.

Anderson's characters are rarely violent or even particularly demonstrative; their dialogue is understatedly droll, and their behavior is at once quietly idiosyncratic and startlingly sincere.

The real attraction here is the building, a glorious effusion of droll turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau design outside and particularly inside, where the jovial friars in the friezes seem to run riot, even if you haven't had a drink.

This musical's two plum assignments -- droll characters who pop out to help with El Gallo's schemes -- have been particularly well-filled.

A dig at the middle-aged is perhaps a tad risky in a book celebrating a 40th anniversary, but what's striking is that despite Foden's droll dismissal, a defensive note is struck repeatedly, sometimes in passing, sometimes at length (Bernardine Evaristo makes a particularly plangent case).

Very droll.

How droll!

Very droll, Keith Austin.

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