Sentence examples for with a droll from inspiring English sources

"It feels good," the 45-year-old said in French with a droll smile.

Helpfully every song, in the best folk tradition, is blessed with a droll, eloquent preamble.

Judge Walker presided over the Proposition 8 trial with a droll, disarming sense of humor.

"I got off a few," he said with a droll Texas accent.

She is in her element in these scenes, executing maneuvers with a droll comic look and loose physicality.

And she is played by Ms. Scott with a droll mixture of sophistication, self-confidence and buried emotional distress.

Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska won the Silver Bear for best director at this year's Berlin film festival with Body, a droll and idiosyncratic drama about three people struggling to deal with grief who are offered the chance to commune with the dead.

Wednesday's collaboration with Stephin Merritt, a droll singer and songwriter, is a likely high point; Friday's meeting with Laurie Anderson, a sure bet.

Set in 1931, this Spanish romantic comedy, which won the Academy Award for best froeign film tells the story of Fernando Jorge Sanzz), a deserter from the Spanish Army who finds refuge with Manolo Fernando Fernan Gomez), a droll worldly old painter who happens to have four beautiful daughters.

His third and last collaboration with Sondheim was a droll comedy thriller, Getting Away With Murder, a light-hearted homage to Agatha Christie.

It is also a vivid account of the author's struggles with this house, a droll narrative about running a scarcely viable farm and the sad story of the elderly couple who live in the lodge with their son.