(1) The running commentary is informative and amusingly droll .

(2) They were as droll as when I saw them back in February.

(3) The whole scenario is rather droll at this point.

(4) The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.

(5) Surely the man who dispatched such droll rejection slips to thousands of chagrined writers should not be too dismayed to find himself paid back in kind-albeit with, as editors are wont to say, sincere regrets.

(6) The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll .

(7) Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.

(8) He's rather droll when he frames his request, but it's a sincere one.

(9) Perhaps, I think, he just went out on one of his famous walks, walks that I shared for many droll miles.

(10) If you're looking for a nice enough, quirky and droll adventure film that you won't remember on Monday, then here's your movie.

(11) He made the tasting far less arduous than his younger, more dashing, but decidedly less droll counterpart who was running the show this time around.

(12) The tabloids did their thing, were quite droll about it.

(13) But just as often, the movie is droll , filled with pithy, hardboiled comebacks.

(14) Many of the show's laughs derive from Lee's droll determination to take the ditty literally: how can an owl play a small guitar?

(15) Of course, the jokes are all on backwoods Southerners, so if that isn't an amusing subject to you, don't pick up this droll satire.

(16) They're droll , yet morbid, featuring amusing little colorful happy people behaving with perfect presence of mind as their 747 ditches into the Atlantic.

(17) No, I didn't do the chicken dance or anything so droll .

(18) Ferguson was sympathetic enough about his stricken team-mate, but could not resist a bit of droll humour.

(19) The use of old cut-out photographs of the main protagonists, against backcloths, is a neat stylistic device and Evans' narration is droll and knowing.

(20) No matter how serious the topics, there will always be instances when it's impossible not to smile, so droll are the minimalist observations and asides.