This medium-length film, directed by Letourneur, brings a bracingly droll inventiveness to its tender intrigue.
My book was sarcastic and droll with a lot of four letter words and politically incorrect humor.
The company has managed to reintroduce some sexy into the droll, quotidian appliances that fill our lives.
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An undercurrent of sadness infuses "Jules and Jim, " but it is forever relieved by moments of droll humor.
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Though the production is unpolished, the music is great and Chris O'Dowd is delightfully droll as the group's boozy manager.
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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.
"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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John Goodman brings his droll wit to the role of John Chambers, the Hollywood makeup artist who was, in fact, Tony Mendez's friend and co-conspirator.
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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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You can be as serious or as snarky, as witty or as practical, as staid or as droll (you get the idea) as you want to be.
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.
The joke is on the filmmakers: the disarmingly smarmy Nealon gets the most laughs, possibly because his droll depiction of simmering boredom reflects the feelings of the audience.
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.
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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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.
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.
In private, the droll Mr Hollande, who has been trying to transform himself from improbable outsider into solemn would-be president, has gained the necessary confidence to let the stiff mask drop a bit.
Mr. Menzel's "Mr. Baltazar's Death" proves engagingly droll.
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The good luck of the original production and of the 2001 film version was that they featured tart, alert, commanding actresses Kathleen Chalfant and Emma Thompson who could embody the psychological profile of the droll, arrogant, solitary, bluestocking professor.
Ms. Hayek gives a showstopper of a performance in a shrewdly conceived role, not because her Elena is given to flashiness but because she's quick-witted, scarily focused, improbably droll and the biggest surprise of all capable of genuine human feeling.
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).
Burns, slides back and forth, ever so smoothly, between its heroine's urgent need for treatment and droll observations on pill-poppery in the general population the antidepressants with seductive names, the television commercials with dire warnings of side effects couched in idiotically cheerful tones.
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Though there's no reason to think Zoffany was gay (he had a complicated marital history), this painting is full of droll homoerotic jokes, from the phallic outline of the slingshot to the similar object the winsome boy is holding in his left hand.
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.
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.
While it's certainly tempting to wax philosophically about how Commodore has finally made the transition from 64KB of memory to 64-bit operating systems, the truth is that the company which just announced a line of boutique gaming PC's at CeBIT is far removed from the one that ruled the 80's and enhanced our droll elementary school days with some therapeutic Rampage.
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