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How to use drollery in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word drollery? Here are some examples.

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Bubbling over with bright ideas, visual flourishes and deadpan drollery, this is a film of wry smiles and poignant moments.
Let's face it, we smarmy and sarky Brits will throw in a bit of ironic drollery at the drop of a hat.
It sounds like a primarily comic conceit, and an undertone of drollery does indeed resonate delicately throughout.
Greater drollery is conveyed by the apish look of the ram-headed god Amon excavated at Djabal Barkal.
The debonair drollery of that title sets the bar high, and keeps it high.
His Mandarine et le Mandarin contains Fontainesque fables of notable drollery and high technical skill.
Practically every sentence has its en-suite drollery.
This is all Murray and strings-an eight-minute, superbly paced cri de coeur, combining romance and drollery before attaining a deep, persuasive resolution.
Fans may lap up his latest but it sure ain't his finest hour, with Murray coasting on his usual deadpan drollery and a final act schmaltzy enough to make you lose your lunch.
Examples from Classical Literature
Stapylton joined in the laugh with which M'Cormick welcomed his own drollery.
I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
I have said that these illustrations are full of point and drollery.
Whittier's play on this fact is in the best vein of his drollery.
How I chuckled when I saw that he broke down in his attempt at drollery.
And the Commodore had to wipe his eyes, with the laughter at his drollery.
The herring-agents at the hotel table were full of drollery.
Then his face broke into a grin that might hardly be called of drollery.
The boy was full of vivacity, drollery, and innocent mischief.
Beneath his bushy black brows danced a pair of little gray eyes that could not stand still for very drollery of humor.
The constant drollery is itself in danger of becoming a parody.
Nastasia Philipovna, who loved originality and drollery of all kinds, was apparently very fond of this old man, and rang the bell for more tea to stop his coughing.
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