Sure enough, the entire congregation looked hypnotized by his drollness. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
The drollness of his intention caused Holly to wonder what he meant by it. From Wordnik.com. [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference
Then when I remembered whom I spoke to, the drollness caught me and made me laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
They smiled as if they might have been expecting something of modest drollness to appear among the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
With endearing drollness, he was hilarious during practice sessions when he told teacher Cheryl Burke how great he was doing. From Wordnik.com. [Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine] Reference
"There will be something in that," said Bryde, and laughed a loud ringing laugh, as the drollness of the business came on him. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
As the years passed he would see the braveness of it and the courage; the audacity and the drollness -- certainly the drollness. From Wordnik.com. [Static] Reference
Presumably Mr. Hume's incisiveness is maximally "above all" including his drollness which, as we've learned, is above his fairness. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Friedman to TV Journalists: Quit Your Banging] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » More McCain Attacks: Murtha ‘Sentimental,’ ‘Never Been a Big Thinker’] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Superdry Opens In Beverly Center] Reference
It is of a drollness, mes cheries, "laughed Tessa Bibye one day, stopping at the cabin by the south wall;" how Francette does but sit in the shade and nurse that half-dead wolf. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Footlights: Drew Lachey, Bailey Hanks, and Whoopi step in | EW.com] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald Chevalier Posts New Video on Gentlemen Broncos Viral Site | /Film] Reference
The drollness of the situation was in danger of overcoming him again. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
Later its comic sensibility evolved from hip drollness to rowdy rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Bunkface and Stacy AF cover into the setlist with their characteristic drollness. From Wordnik.com. [Junk - Latest Happenings] Reference
While dabbling in drollness, the gist of Josh Klausner's script would be a better fit for a. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
"Basically, everyone keeps coming in, criticises and keeps changing it," he says, with lugubrious drollness. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
They loved him for his simplicity and drollness, but there hung above him a great sword of suspended judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
He looked different, more staid and respectable, but his drollness of speech and kindly manner were the same as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Mr. Fielding looked as if Dick's drollness did not appeal to him, but the Bishop laughed, and put his arm around her. From Wordnik.com. [The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World] Reference
In high spirits at first, with his natural drollness, stimulated to brilliancy, his sallies brought smiles from those at adjoining tables. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference
However, where Distant deepened from a drollness that underscored the contrary dynamics of that film's lead city boy and country-cousin roomie. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
As the latest television series to embrace the dramedy genre, "Nurse Jackie" balances the crises that Jackie confronts with bursts of drollness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He used to say, with a drollness which did not strike me until years afterwards, "Boys, I and Cap'n Towle is goin 'to trot out' the Greys 'to-morroh.". From Wordnik.com. [An Old Town By the Sea] Reference
He is nicely dressed in black and has an appearance of prosperity about him, but in other respects he retains the old drollness of enunciation and manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911] Reference
The two persons pitched on for decoying Mat were Dolan and Traynor, who accordingly set out, full of glee at the singularity and drollness of their undertaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
The problem I see with this is that he is using a low-grade satire that winds up equating this since of native spirituality with the kitsch so that the first is cheapened by the drollness the second adds. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
A little more and I would have gone into screaming fits at the drollness of it. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Set of Six] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » More McCain Attacks: Murtha ‘Sentimental,’ ‘Never Been a Big Thinker’] Reference
The most bizarre ideas, however, are understood as displays of drollness.). From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
That is your drollness. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Will] Reference
Points for drollness. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 184] Reference
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