Sentence examples for sort of droll from inspiring English sources

His petty trials in drinking, eating and nose picking are documented with the same sort of droll physical humor as Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean.

In a world of laddishness = rape, the sort of droll nose-thumbing that '90s lad made his raison d'être is a dim memory.

In the block sorting paradigm of Droll and Hayhoe [23], blocks with different properties have to be picked up from a reservoir site and moved to one of two "conveyor belts", depending on their property.

Some were a harsh and biting sort of fun, others droll or off center, like "Lame Duck," by a Denver artist, Mark Friday, featuring a wooden hunting decoy painted with question marks, perched above spindled legs gone askew.

"Laurie didn't tell me how to be or not be, so I picked up elements of her own droll humor, and sort of took my cue from the dummy," she said.

The bubbling streams of droll verse always come through clearly.

Coward, the epitome of droll sophistication, wrote more than 50 plays and hundreds of songs.

A German import, it's a series of droll paintings spread across two pages.

Some visual surprises pop up along the way, including, most memorably, a flock of droll crows.

Beginning with the 1948 surrender of Nazareth to Israeli soldiers, Suleiman plays a silent observer of events, sometimes droll, sometimes melancholic, and displaying the sort of level-headedness one wishes those involved in the peace process would show.

You know, I found his—I mean, he's very droll in his storytelling and you sort of get into his rhythm in reading it.