drollness

• “It's hard for me to accurately convey the beauty of Elliot's story, the drollness of his script, the visual charm of his artwork, or the twisted kind of neurotic Jewish tenderness conveyed in his film.”

  The Huffington Post: George Heymont: It's a Small World After All (VIDEOS)

• “We'd had ample opportunity to digest reports of Mandelson's drollness about Gordon Brown's marketability ("I'd settle for the tie being straight"); we had been primed for the shock of seeing Lord M in his underpants (it wasn't a Chippendales moment).”

  The Guardian: Rewind TV: Any Human Heart; Mandelson: The Real PM?; JFK: The Making of Modern Politics; Peep Show

• “I do concede that it's almost like Hess took a Wes Anderson movie and made it PG, but it's still got a cartoony, larger-than-life kinda drollness whereas Anderson has a more story-book-for-adults kinda drollness.”

  Ronald Chevalier Posts New Video on Gentlemen Broncos Viral Site | /Film

• “Woody Allen and other wits did it first, and best, and anything any of us have to add to it in 2010 should sparkle with drollness and freshness and a dozen other - nesses.”

  The Huffington Post: Superdry Opens In Beverly Center

• “As the years passed he would see the braveness of it and the courage; the audacity and the drollness -- certainly the drollness.”

  Fictionaut: Static

• “Presumably Mr. Hume's incisiveness is maximally "above all" including his drollness which, as we've learned, is above his fairness.”

  Jon Friedman to TV Journalists: Quit Your Banging

• “With endearing drollness, he was hilarious during practice sessions when he told teacher Cheryl Burke how great he was doing.”

  Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine

• “But rumors of cuecard reading be damned reportedly, she needed them for her first fewperformances, the Whoop is injecting her characteristic drollness into the role of saucy sister muse Calliope.”

  The Footlights: Drew Lachey, Bailey Hanks, and Whoopi step in | EW.com

• “His whiney voice augmented Gore†™ s drollness, and the result was they put everyone to sleep, and when we woke up, the election was over.”

  Think Progress » More McCain Attacks: Murtha ‘Sentimental,’ ‘Never Been a Big Thinker’

• “When one picks up the bulky marker, or can of paint, and sets it against the drollness of modern homogenized landscapes, something changes in the mind of the implementer.”

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