Sentence examples for rather droll from inspiring English sources

Claude's is undeniably rather droll.

This was rather droll, but Welles seemed to mean it.

Stanley Tucci belatedly and unexpectedly emerges as its rather droll comic hero.

Hence the rather droll gag delivered by the Shadow Chancellor on the Chancellor's nomenclature.

Although droll rather than laugh-out-loud funny, this is a smart and immensely enjoyable romcom.

A lean, droll, rather drunk fellow, in white trousers, was the wit of the one-leg party.

Their band tracks make the songs sound droll rather than defensive: the buzzing, strutting synthesizer riff in "Make Some Noise," the guitar and keyboards bouncing around in "OK," the stoned-out filters and echoes in "Tadlock's Glasses".

Bujalski is a diabolically clever noticer — or, rather, a creator of droll intimate moments that are worthy of notice.

Honourable howlers Five great werewolf movies By Ben Walsh An American Werewolf in London (1981) John Landis's mischievous, droll and rather heart-breaking werewolf film begins with two young, chirpy American backpackers traipsing along the Yorkshire moors.

Indeed, the somewhat awkward-looking Hercules and Mars in this show faithfully quote particular ancient sculptures, with a droll montage effect rather like that of the appropriated figures in Manet's "Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe".

Seymour Glass first appeared in one of the "Nine Stories," "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," as a disturbed veteran of World War II (as Mr. Salinger himself was), who on vacation with his rather shallow wife, after a charmingly droll conversation with a little girl on the beach, shockingly shoots himself in the last paragraph.