When my friend lets fly what she deems a particularly droll bon mot and it fails to get a big laugh from the room, she immediately tweets it out.
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His even-handed generosity towards the artists he discusses is relieved by droll humour, a feeling for their quirks and the occasional, unexpected barb.
Then his eyes -- those baby blues -- light up with a droll smirk and he mentions to his audience that he just heard on the news that there's been "another shooting" in the States (this one in Alabama).
The resigned Vanya (David Hyde Pierce) and his bipolar adopted sister, Sonia (Kristine Nielsen), have been rusticated in this backwater, first looking after their dying parents, and now living together, without work or purpose, while a third sibling, Masha (the droll Sigourney Weaver), a famous actress, supports them from afar.
This medium-length film, directed by Letourneur, brings a bracingly droll inventiveness to its tender intrigue.
Our droll narrator, Jake Landry, is a typical Finder hero: an unambitious regular guy far down the corporate food chain, whom the hoity-toity higher-ups undervalue and snub.
One might think that those droll little witticisms that Siri sometimes comes up with a the result of a machine intelligence gaining a sense of humour.
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Benjamin is a true star who brings understated and thoughtful sincerity to every line he speaks, Patton is sly and droll, and the entire cast (especially Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, and Ving Rhames) is a delight, but Bryan Barber directs with a music-video indiscipline, making shots with a casual profligacy and bathing them all in caramel light.
"This droll-faced northern girl, who in the course of a long and happy life, took her place amongst the best we have, " said Bennett.
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He was funny in a way that superheroes had never been hip, droll, sardonic and self-ironic and his quick wit meshed beautifully with the movie's sophisticated style and elegant action.
Michel Gondry seems to have created a playground in which his actors are free to be ardent, droll or cheerfully insane while Ellen Kuras's see-all camera darts and glides among them.
Scientists also recorded countryside great tits and found they sang at a lower pitch and, in turn, city birds found the rural droll difficult to understand, the study found.
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