I just -- he was so droll and so hilarious.
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Some Twitter users rolled their eyes, and provided droll commentary.
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The mood is affably garrulous, the narration deadpan and droll.
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Still, she knits satire and philosophy with a deliciously droll touch.
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The consequent jumpiness avoids ordinary kitsch for something more knowingly droll.
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Margaret (the slinky, droll Vanessa Kirby) that Philip's best friend and
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Mr. Attenborough's distinguished voice describes the action with a droll understatement.
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I think transposing something from one medium to another is droll.
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It's occasionally droll and clever, in a "Broad City"-ish way.
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Lyrically, Berman orchestrated stand-offs between evocative details and droll delivery.
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Costumes make the misadventures of the droll co-workers all the funnier.
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All your droll 140-character observations and witticisms would be lost forever.
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"I mean that guy seems okay," was C.K.'s typically droll assessment.
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Graham's response was to bring a droll understatement to a knife fight.
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The word "droll" seems as if it were invented for these two.
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The droll comedian Todd Barry made his stand-up debut on Nov.
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And Auriemma did not let the criticism pass without a droll comeback.
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Some, at least, were more droll in their view of the decline.
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Rickman's character is droll, grumpy, misanthropic — the perfect stand-in for Rickman himself.
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"Yik Yak's always been about location first and anonymity second," Droll told Mashable.
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He's also quickly responded to the game's detractors in typically droll Deadmau5 fashion.
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"We're all about forming and encouraging these tight-knit local communities," Droll said.
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Droll and fanciful, it is a picaresque tale with a mischievously understated attitude.
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ASBURY PARK Keller Williams KWahtro, featuring Gibbs Droll, Danton Boller and Rodney Holmes.
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They share a love of D.J.-ing and a droll sense of humor.
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Droll, chilled out, and scarily articulate, Gibson talked about the future on television.
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Michael Peterson is fascinating — as shifty and unnerving as he is droll and charismatic.
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Kaitlyn Dever is in the Michael Cera role: softer-spoken, more cautious, and droll.
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But on Tuesday, the droll bon mot may have been more practice than pun.
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Mr. Devine watched CNN on a laptop and made droll comments about the commentators.
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He was also sly and avuncular, making droll, deadpan comments in his sepulchral voice.
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Nathan Stewart-Jarrett is dry, droll and very funny as a caustic gay nurse.
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The book's title is a droll provocation, as well as a vexing self-contradiction.
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Other artists have taken to venting their frustration through a droll sense of humor.
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Is Gilbert and Sullivan's enduringly popular "The Mikado" a droll satire of Victorian England?
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She's used a workmanlike attitude and droll wit to make inroads with two previous presidents.
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The judges were particularly taken with his Charles Schulz-like gift for droll visual pacing.
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Melia is an immediately endearing character, and her wiseacre narration is both droll and affecting.
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Mustache developed four brand identity videos with the low-key, droll humor KLM was seeking.
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My droll, aristocratic Russian-history professor granted me an extension on the final term paper.
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Its comic sensibility blends droll wit, violent surprise, winking juvenile hijinks, and vulgar scatological humor.
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He's odd, sure, but there's a droll self-awareness about him that is immediately endearing.
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In between Charlie Covell's droll dialogue and the oddly romantic plot, it is unremitting bleakness.
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Yet Wilde's pantomime, his ostentatious dandy manner, is admirable for its droll and caustic intelligence.
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She is droll about their chicanery and non-judgmental about their conspiracy theories, prophecies and prejudices.
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Her cartoonish portraits are distinguished by bold black lines, wide eyes, high cheekbones and droll text.
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This was not the cool, droll Fitzpatrick, the 12-year veteran who still wants to start.
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Although Holt isn't a playful writer, her observations on the restaurant business can be downright droll.
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So imagine a book about "non-young" women, written by Collins with her signature droll sensibility.
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Also returning are the family's frosty super-friend Frozone and their droll spandex guru Edna Mode.
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His droll humor comes in smaller doses than usual—after all, it's hard to make slavery funny.
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As for Mr. Garrel, his exasperation as the "real" Ivan makes him the film's most droll presence.
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My favorite skating character is the droll Tamara Moskvina of Russia, perhaps the world's greatest pairs coach.
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German couples adopted Claire's droll mix of colloquial dialect and hapless High German, as their private language.
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It's a droll gem worth catching up on, because Season 2 is finally arriving in mid-January.
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Individually, each figure was exquisite, the fine details and droll expressions clearly the work of expert artisans.
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Still deadpan and droll with his voice that sounds as if it emanates from a mine shaft.
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Game Night has tighter, more farce-like scripting to go with its droll spoof of David Fincher movies.
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In the last six years, DC's wave of superhero films have been dark, droll and disappointing to fans.
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"It's a richer, more engaging, more personal feed," said Tyler Droll, the company's co-founder, in an interview.
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But from inside the books, the syntactic icing is so clearly a protective measure, a droll band-aid.
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Moreover, isn't it droll, Copps's unfortunate mention aside, that Netflix has come out in support of the merger?
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Even so, I was completely captivated by Ellis's wonderful creatures, their charming little world and their droll language.
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Droll as this is, it neither leavens the bureaucratic heaviness of the scene nor deepens it as drama.
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Intervals of white canvas align here and there to form horizontally curving fissures: wind evoked with droll economy.
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And you might recognize Jerome Flynn, who plays the droll warrior Bronn on "GAME OF THRONES," as Sgt.
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Another consummate New Yorker, the writer Fran Lebowitz, makes for a characteristically droll talking head on the changing trade.
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Even the opening theme, sung by Harris, is self-referentially droll and sinister: Look away, look away, look away!
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He was a droll kid with pale orange hair and papery skin through which you could see blue veins.
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Such droll observations seem to reflect on Day, a former feature writer for newspapers, more than on her characters.
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" That line, and others, reminded me of how droll Mr. McNally can be, even in dark plays like "Love!
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Its tone — knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity — elevates it to its own kind of specialness.
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"Take Me," an extremely droll parody of a male-female cat-and-mouse thriller, is a case in point.
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Journalists love to write clever think pieces about terfs and about the supposedly droll question, what makes a woman?
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Ferris's observations range from droll — such as when he describes the magnetic draw of free morning bagels — to sad.
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Antoine Laurain — a Parisian novelist in his 40s, splendidly droll and noncommittal — declined to take up the melodramatic scenario.
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Lang, who is fifty-nine and has a droll, sanguine manner, was with his wife, the artist Suzanne Bocanegra.
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Unfortunately, this droll peace is being threatened by the internet equivalent of the dumb controversy surrounding desnudas in Times Square.
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Luckily, a couple of flight attendants from Air New Zealand are on hand to help him understand the Kiwi droll.
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Richard Buckman's last dispatch was more straightforward, a brief listing of those he left behind, stuck with a droll finale.
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Rather than dry exposition or long-winded discussions, these men use wordplay that is by turns sarcastic, droll and witty.
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Of course, kitsch depends on the perspective: An English garden gnome taken seriously is depressing; viewed with irony, it's droll.
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It was coupled with some of the most honest, droll and touching lyrics I had heard in a long time.
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Yes, but of course everything about the new nearly normal is weird, and Wiener is a droll yet gentle guide.
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A technical puzzle: how many celebrity cameos can a film contain before it passes from the droll into the tiresome?
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Moreover, Watch the Stove is funnier, awash in goofy yelping voices, oddly pieced-together beats, and generally droll self-mockery.
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He is an affable raconteur, with a droll sense of humor and a clear-eyed view of himself and his town.
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It's part sincere, part tongue-in-cheek, part meditation, part mockery, but its production is universally beautiful, its sensibility universally droll.
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But it is likely that no matter who buys it, co-founders Droll and Buffington would not join the new company.
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In a statement to TechCrunch, Tyler Droll, CEO of Yik Yak, pointed to strategic changes as the cause for the layoffs.
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By physically satirizing their subjects, the artists set the stage for an inevitably droll and/or provocative encounter with the audience.
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His use of the "ugly Christmas sweater" wasn't offensive and corporate, it was droll and sincere—part of his actual identity.
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Encountered on a gallery floor rather than a city sidewalk, the lifelike clumps are droll, uncomfortable reminders of urban pollution's normalization.
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The verse is detached, droll, and decidedly of its time, nodding to the iCloud celebrity photo leak and the Shmoney dance.
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He even jokes to Archie and Mary in his typically droll manner that at least his father is an "honest murderer".
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Played straight, it would have been a droll two hours mimicking a genre that until recently was money in the bank.
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Both have a jaunty backing track, a droll voice-over and a provocative lead who feels strangely innocuous viewed from 2018.
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ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE To his detractors, the droll, prolific South Korean director Hong Sang-soo keeps repeating himself.
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But a select few can translate it to Twitter or to writing droll personal essays or charming useful and powerful people.
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ASK A SHOWRUNNER "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" is not based on the Australian comedian's life, but his dark, droll humor remains.
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In 1969 he was the tweedy, droll and learned host of "Civilisation," a 13-part BBC documentary that he also wrote.
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The ominous chords of a Beethoven adagio keep breathing in, making droll remarks about the volatile substance of banality and suffering onscreen.
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The app is currently only available at Furman University — the South Carolina liberal arts college where Buffington and Droll met as students.
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Yik Yak was created by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, who developed the app while students at Furman University in South Carolina.
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He has a knack for spewing platitudes that newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous regard as profound, which is good for some droll humor.
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He now stars in the new movie "Uncle Drew" and brings his droll sense of humor to two game shows on Thursday.
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Paul Rudd plays Berg with the droll, boyish charm he's brought to dozens of other roles, but he adds a protective coating.
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The last, "Various Incantations of a Tibetan Seamstress," is notable for the droll approach it takes to the practice of Tantric Buddhism.
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One reads Roth for the tone, the music, the confiding intimacy — sometimes droll humor, sometimes frank outrage, often a mixture of these.
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In his new work, "Almodóvar Dystopia," Mr. Ramos channels the Spanish filmmaker's droll extravagance into an uninhibited escapade for six naked performers.
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Still, the stories are imbued with a humor that comes through in dialogue, in droll observations and even in a story's construction.
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While so much early conceptual art tended toward the cold and cerebral, Mr. Baldessari's was infused with a droll sense of humor.
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"Chelsea Does Silicon Valley" has some droll moments as Ms. Handler, professing to be perpetually frustrated by technology, sets out to educate herself.
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This album feels a little less droll and a little more worldly, in sound and scope, than what we've heard from you before.
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"The Infinite Blacktop" is droll, savage and healthily unsettling, even at moments when it verges on becoming an essay about its own construction.
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The country singer Lee Brice, in a droll poetic reversal, once compared Panama City's sunsets to the airbrushed T-shirts for sale there.
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In Madeleine Olnek's "Wild Nights With Emily," the life and work of Emily Dickinson are subject to a delightfully droll — even gay — reinterpretation.
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Jack Whitehall, best known as a stand-up comic, has the restraints on for his droll portrayal of Paul Pennyfeather, the story's protagonist.
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Watching the gruff, lumbering, suddenly protective Mandalorian safeguard his tiny but powerful new charge promises to be a droll and potentially moving process.
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The droll joke of "Little Joe" is that it frequently looks and feel like a "Snatchers" reboot as directed by a pod person.
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Over the last year, Mr. McCain, 80, has displayed every element of his disputatious, droll, scolding, informed, press-loving, press-hating, senatorial self.
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" The directors of the documentary, Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, said Mr. Valentine had an "uproarious and droll sense of humor" and "disarming honesty.
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The funniest bits in the second segment belong to the conservative man, a droll Leslie Jordan-a-like who's politely horrified by Cohen's antics.
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Repetition and temp morts, as ever in Jarmusch, have their place, as do the laconic humor, slow fades to black, and the droll protagonist.
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Who showed all these people with weird, droll voices and rudimentary instrumental skills that they could form a band and it could be good?
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He is said to have a wry, droll, almost English humor in person that does not come through so much in the public persona.
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He and his voice have been described as aloof, eerily neutral, silky, wheedling, controlled, baleful, unisex, droll, soft, conversational, dreamy, supremely calm and rational.
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Transposing something from one medium to another is a lot more than "droll" — it is one of the key strategies of the avant-garde.
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Fortunately, a good friend — the acerbic, mildly effeminate Churton Saunders (a delightfully droll Hugh Sachs), called Chuffy — is there to offer counsel and sympathy.
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"Yes, lots of people here are into abandonment porn," Ms. Kilgariff said in her characteristic droll tone, which ignited loud giggles from the audience.
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Sanders attempted to turn the tables on the moderators, which, given the droll level of questioning in these affairs, is typically an easy task.
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Originally adapted in 2004, the original possessed droll wit in Ron Perlman's snarling performance and considerable visual flair thanks to director Guillermo del Toro.
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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson -- like Farage, one of the leading Brexit advocates -- laughed off the tension with a droll reminder during a session of parliament.
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The film, written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, has a droll sense of humor not unlike that of "Fargo," and the dialogue is dazzling.
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By contrast, those who enjoy Galifianakis' droll wit in his "Between Two Ferns" interviews will again be reminded how difficult it's been translating those qualities.
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If you're into droll interviews and Zach Galifianakis, you will enjoy his bit with Hillary Clinton no matter which side of the ballot you prefer.
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Its title aptly evokes the novella's feel of both a droll journal of reported events and a broad characterization of a whole era of life.
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Goldblum, Hollywood's patron saint of droll humor and artful corniness, also happens to be a serviceable jazz pianist, who first started gigging as a teenager.
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There wasn't really enough justification for the president to spend so much time with this droll speechwriter, or to put so much trust in him.
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All kinds of details, painful and perverse and deeply droll, cling to her heroine and are appraised and examined and skewered and simply wondered at.
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When I asked him if he had a favorite, half-expecting another droll wisecrack in response, he replied with what appeared to be complete sincerity.
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In his public appearances, McKibben, a Vermonter and one of the best-known environmentalists of our age, can be an extremely droll and appealing Cassandra.
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He has a droll, almost effete way of speaking, which he moderates by making fun of himself or of the whole construct of giving interviews.
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Murder and mayhem ensue in Michael Stephenson's droll comedy, helped along by a cast including Amber Tamblyn, Natasha Lyonne, Ed Begley Jr. and Stacy Keach.
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The humor is dry and the acting deadpan in "Women Who Kill," a comedy that plays it droll and is all the funnier for it.
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This is true even of Mr. Sisto's MacKaye, who is a droll presence, but comes across as oddly muted even at his cloak-flinging hammiest.
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The latter consists of a handful of droll cardboard cut-outs from across history, including a dour Angela Merkel and Marcel Duchamp crossdressing as Rrose Sélavy.
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It sounds like the setup for some kind of droll joke: A lottery winner and a rhinoceros arrive at the birthday party for a dead mystic.
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But the neighbors' talking dog, Tommy (Jim Anderson), is a delightfully droll creation — portly, gruff and stuck with a boy's name even though she's a girl.
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One such vantage point, to which I returned when revisiting the show, was that of Wong Ping, a droll and melancholy digital animator from Hong Kong.
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At each show the game performer and the droll playwright forge a relationship of sorts, navigating barriers of language and life experience before a live audience.
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It was almost the size of the kayak in length and bumped and rubbed the boat with a droll instinct, as a cow might a post.
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What remains is the droll and sighing commitment of the stoic—a willingness to perform minor acts of assistance and relief, but nothing more than that.
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These sketch a portrait far removed from the droll, pliable sex object, touching on traumatic memories of racial violence and their lingering effects on Baker's relationships.
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Shaun parses these dense bureaucratic documents and cryptofascist character constellations with his trademark droll, sardonic narration, which makes for a strangely compelling and often amusing experience.
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The film calls for Rickman to tamp down the droll, sneering dismissiveness that he deployed to such terrific effect in Die Hard and the Harry Potter series.
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She comes to live with him, just as his judgmental mother, Beatrice Horseman (a droll Wendie Malick), is kicked out of her nursing home for bad behavior.
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" Some may recognize them as the drawings and droll descriptions of Randall Munroe, the creator of the Internet comic "xkcd" as well as two books, "What If?
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What you unfortunately don't get to hear very often (unless you work in kitchens) is how sharp and droll and cynical and pragmatic chefs can be too.
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The vocal talent is variable, but the writing is savvy, the nods to genre are droll and the cliffhangers — don't go into the abandoned amusement park, Tig!
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In 2016, more than a half-century after the fact, Mr. Snoddy reflected with droll amusement on the incident that inspired the creation of the fuzz box.
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On the subject of those big boy pants, a droll sidebar to fashion history was provided this week by Michael Maccari, the creative director at Perry Ellis.
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To counteract his nuttier tendencies, I would invite Geoffrey Chaucer, evidently a droll, humane and tolerant character, who could also bring along a few fascinating medieval delicacies.
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There was also "Pass the Biscuits Please," a droll song that consisted of not much more than Mr. Williams imploring someone, anyone, to pass him the biscuits.
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Olyphant's been here before, with his recurring role on The Grinder, another high-concept, gag-driven sitcom populated by weirdos who spoke in droll quips and one-liners.
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Here's one that has bounced around the internet forever, apparently tracing back to the City of Münster, Germany, press office: And here's urbanist Jon Orcutt's droll update: pic.twitter.
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It's one of the most memorable moments of the concert because, planned or not, it felt like a droll comment on the constant speculation about her love life.
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But in his first album in seven years he's clearly tailoring lyrics to that destiny, and that is an aesthetic choice, apt and sometimes droll but also limiting.
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Their visits to the domineering Patsy, and their varied relationships with her, come across in pithy blackout scenes that run the gamut from lightly droll to distinctly sad.
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Djokovic, a thoughtful, droll and driven Serb, has encountered waves of sentiment for Federer, still the people's choice in most places, and for Murray, the Scotsman, at Wimbledon.
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But note as well instrumentals designated "Mexican Fenders #1" and "#2," a guitar-not-car metaphor that evokes the shambolic fuzz and droll electronic detritus he smears everywhere.
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He taunts Boseman into submission, dispatches Angela Bassett's Queen Ramonda with a droll "Hey Auntie," and growls with such cocky authority that Wakanda already seems to be his.
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Her name may appear twice on the Manhattan Theater Club marquee but neither the anecdotal play nor the droll performance provides the depth of a reasonably thorough obituary.
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The comedian Anna Russell's droll summary of the convoluted plot of the "Ring," in which she sings excerpts at the piano, is still priceless after nearly 70 years.
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Frank Bascombe, Richard Ford's stoic and droll protagonist, propelled four of Ford's books, beginning with "The Sportswriter" (1986) and ending with "Let Me Be Frank With You" (2014).
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The two, Droll and Droller, pair deliciously, but they don't hog the proceedings, leaving plenty of room for all sorts of other colorful characters to make an impression.
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Sad, because Beckett was a droll correspondent; fortunately, the letters can be found in the terrific four-volume edition, recently completed, of "The Letters of Samuel Beckett" (Cambridge).
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He was gallant, droll and courtly (another description of his accent, reported by Thomas Meaney in The Times Literary Supplement, captured it as "Mineola via the Grand Tour").
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Now for something vertiginously charming: sculptures, drawings, photographs, and films, filling the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum, by the droll Swiss duo of Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
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Quirky, droll and surprisingly dry given its preoccupation with drinking, the show serves up an amusing riff on vampire lore, and as a bonus, living in Staten Island.
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But accompanied by a wonderfully droll quartet of singing musicians — Colette Alexander, Jo Lampert, Dani Markham and Reggie D. White — the Bengsons are stirring, and surprisingly witty, company.
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Since then, Disney animations have assumed such a firm monopoly on stories featuring anthropomorphized animals that "Vixen" productions often seem fixated on avoiding anything excessively coy or droll.
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"We recently made some strategic changes at Yik Yak in line with our key areas of focus for the company," CEO Tyler Droll told The Verge in an email.
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Mahathir's image on social media is that of a droll but sage father-figure coming out of political retirement to help right the wrongs of Najib and his government.
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In Red Dead Redemption 2, John and company miraculously return from exacting their revenge on Micah in one piece, to live out their droll or idyllic post-outlaw dreams.
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Droll and his co-founder, Brooks Buffington, positioned the new version of Yik Yak as a way to help its users feel more connected to the world around them.
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Another autobiographical monologue opening this week, Sonya Kelly's droll "How to Keep an Alien," directed by Gina Moxley at the Irish Arts Center, is also a tale of immigration.
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One critic has compared him to the minimalist Donald Judd because of his fascination with structure and form; another to Marcel Duchamp, master of the droll artistic one-liner.
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Duras manages to be explicit without being crude: The man's genitals, for instance, are only ever alluded to (though in French they are given female pronouns, a droll touch).
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LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig's first solo feature as a director is a droll comedy that draws on her own upbringing in Sacramento, with Saoirse Ronan as her movie counterpart.
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The victor two years earlier was the artist Valérie Belin, who illustrated the overuse of plastic with a droll series of still lives that reference 17th-century Dutch painting.
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Though the script tilts to the didactic, the performances are absolutely delicious, with Mr. Meaney droll and understated and Mr. Spall fiery and derisive, yet not above a joke.
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The Australian TV dramedy "Please Like Me" earned a devoted following and an international Emmy nomination for the way it used droll humor to explore difficult, even tragic, events.
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The show begins with Ms. Smith as Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who provides a droll and sobering overview.
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" Vacations provoked something like bewildered impatience; in his long chronicle, Moore eventually flourishes a droll shorthand for these recurrent challenges: "For her customary but always unwelcome summer holidays, Mrs.
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She turned it into one of her famously funny, perfectly calibrated board books, spinning a droll story about a pup who won't get up — or so his owners think.
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Jordan Peele considered starring as Cassius for a time, then Donald Glover did, until Glover's "Atlanta" co-star, the captivatingly droll Lakeith Stanfield, signed on as Cassius for good.
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The designers engaged in some last-minute jockeying over the language of their update, and then they posted it using Reddit's signature droll tone: TIL Reddit has a design team.
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"Furious Hours" is a well-told, ingeniously structured double mystery—one an unsolved serial killing, the other an elusive book—rich in droll humour and deep but lightly worn research.
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Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington published a farewell note to users on Friday, announcing they would shut down their once-popular anonymous social network this week.
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He opened his set with a longtime crowd-pleaser, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," though it had more grievance in it than the droll original, along with some changed lyrics.
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As agents Mulder and Scully, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson continue to sporadically exhibit those qualities that made the series pop, from his droll asides to her intensity and skepticism.
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Even when the puppets' faces remain frozen, the dynamic movements (particularly of the crab referee) and droll commentary recontextualize the sport while celebrating its thrills — anthropomorphized but without easy allegory.
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Shows like the moody "Riverdale" (I like to call it "Tween Peaks") and the sinister "Sabrina," a droll spine-freezer that eviscerates the ditsy '90s version, probably won't win Emmys.
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The drawings, the core of her artistic output, are thus not only quasi-systematic knowledge schemas but also droll compromises with an imperfect world — aesthetic intermediates between ideation and actuality.
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Extravagantly baroque in their camera placement, perversely literary in their references, at once droll and tedious, these surrealist shaggy dog tales don't lend themselves to easy synopses or individual canonization.
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The physical production is ideal, mounted by a team that includes Dane Laffrey (the depersonalizing sets), Jessica Pabst (the droll character-defining costumes), Matt Frey (lighting) and Leon Rothenberg (sound).
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Judging by its sober design, its small scale, and its large mortality mission, you might not guess that Duchamp's Last Day is as droll and as pleasurable as it is.
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While Wenger couldn't help but laugh at his own neologism, laced as it was with inadvertent self-parody, his droll interpretation of the situation was brilliantly fitting and fairly apt.
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Bruno Latour, the sociologist and historian of science, apologized for not knowing German, and recited in French a long, droll poem he had written, describing Sloterdijk as a scribe of God.
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Look at Alice (played with verve by the tall, droll Debicki), who, obeying her mother's advice, and hating herself for doing so, sleeps with a wealthy man (Lukas Haas) for money.
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The first episode featured Jon Stewart taste-testing cold pizza; this one welcomes another New York City cultural juggernaut, Sarah Jessica Parker, as well as the droll stand-up Aparna Nancherla.
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It might just leave you scrambling to revisit — or discover for the first time — the brilliance of their work on screen: the exuberance, the precision, the sex, the oft droll humor.
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LONDON — In the annals of television interviews, a drawing-room chat with a 91-year-old woman, watching home movies and offering occasional droll remarks, would not seem like edgy stuff.
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"Be Prepared" is a complete delight, from the first sly jokes about the American Girl-ish doll Complicity to Brosgol's evocative artwork, which ranges from droll to wistful to outright lovely.
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Its custodian, Jeff Roth, comes across in "Obit" as a droll, mildly frantic version of a Jorge Luis Borges character holding inscrutable dominion over a vast, seemingly impenetrable labyrinth of arcana.
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On view now is a sharp, droll exhibition of exactingly staged self-portraits by Rodney Graham, the slipperiest of the half-dozen conceptual photographers who came of age in 1980s Vancouver.
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In the video for their prickly single "Stimulus for Living" the droll Leeds punks elucidated the whens and the whys and the particulars of their formation and their motivation as a band.
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While this seems like a big shift for the startup, which is known for its anonymity, Yik Yak CEO Tyler Droll says he expects the feature will help strengthen the app's communities.
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A sketch group called Nephew scores pretty well with a bit involving a (fake) 93-year-old comedy legend, and Alice Wetterlund brings a distinctively droll delivery to her stand-up set.
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Pretend I'm DeadBy Jen Beagin Out May 15With her droll humor and hilarious (but also earnest) observations, the 24-year-old narrator of Pretend I'm Dead had us hooked from page one.
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My mistake was assuming that mom loves things in the way I love things—with a droll sense of detachment and a well practiced eye roll—but that's just not the case.
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" He envies a certain kind of confident Southern man, about whom he says: "His is a discerning shtick of which the Southerner is king: wicked-sounding but affectionate, droll, imperturbable above all.
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What's more, that droll little bonnie Prince Charlie has thought up the ultimate burn: Bringing a bottle of wine for Cumberland as a birthday gift, to be presented when he's a prisoner.
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" BuzzFeed compiled tweets from people joking about how boring it would be; the ever-droll New York Times announced that it "might be the least anticipated vice-presidential debate in 40 years.
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A few years later, he began cutting up album covers to make droll Rauschenbergian collages, pasting Tina Turner's legs onto Herbert von Karajan's torso — a visual analog to musical sampling and remixing.
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The canned music barely impeded the emotional power of his more drum-driven songs, and when he was at the piano, the songs shaded in and out of droll, spoken-sung monologues.
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A Surrealist painter and fabulist, she wrote 25 fantastical and droll stories in English, Spanish and French — stories that blend the lure of a fairy tale with elements unpleasantly familiar and frightening.
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Yes, that holiday is being celebrated in this Jewish household, a commingling of traditions that finds droll expression when a child mistakenly tops the towering Christmas tree with a Star of David.
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She said the duck's distinctive quack (she uses it as her ring tone), its droll waddle and the image of fuzzy ducklings trailing a protective mother all elicit affection from city people.
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Mr. Barry is a one-of-a-kind comic — a droll, low-energy stand-up who uses meticulous pacing both to tell brilliantly funny personal stories and to relate carefully reasoned observations.
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Then his mother addresses her hanging child with a droll "I suppose you think that's very funny, Harold," and the dam burst: laughter, release, a crowded theater in sync in the dark.
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"Nobodies" is a droll study in the humiliating brand of desperation that infects the hangers-on of the show-business universe, so help yourself if you haven't had enough of those already.
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They were simply an opportunity to spend time with a good storyteller, a droll soul with the skills to turn even the flimsiest bits of real-life anecdotage into pleasurable reading material.
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This serpentine style of time conflation is the droll setting for the piss-stain forms that have been extracted from particular localities and made to represent human beings, now thinned and diminished.
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His audacious take on Bernstein's "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1988) makes the cut; so does "Jazz Devil" (1998), his droll signature tune, with its walking bass and its comic supernatural narrative.
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For all the dark shadows that fall over the canvas of Anthology: Somewhere Not Here, threads of levity and playfulness are woven throughout, reflecting the droll comedy we find in Kha's own work.
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It's a different kind of suburban fantasy, but once you get past the droll, Charlie Kaufman-esque imagined technology, it's not too far removed from those gleaming visions from the '50s and '60s.
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Two years after Goat Girl formed, the name has proven a fitting moniker for the lo-fi quartet, whose droll, searing self-titled debut straddles the line between provocative crassness and mocking crassness.
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Lyonne plays Nadia, a droll, chain-smoking New Yorker with a wild tangle of red hair, who is caught in a Groundhog Day-esque loop on the night of her 36th birthday party.
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Henry is a droll and chivalrous if mild fellow who may remind some readers of Binx Bolling, the New Orleans stockbroker who is the protagonist of Walker Percy's classic novel "The Moviegoer" (1961).
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Though it may have seemed crazy to block users from joining the app, Droll and Buffington knew that the only way to sustain an app like Yik Yak was to keep it safe.
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At the same time, I can imagine Rooney—who recalls having "nursed intense romantic obsessions for droll counterfactuals"—noting the unoriginality of invoking her collegiate debating record as evidence of her verbal precocity.
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If that's not possible, I go by word of mouth and my own mood — sometimes I just hanker for a book that's deep and dark; other times I want something droll or topical.
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Her droll, perfunctory gyrations and sketchy device to bust a dealer in stolen goods are worth noting, but these are upstaged by the wealth of scenes shot in the long-gone Steeplechase Park.
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In Adichie's resolute, often droll adaptation of her 2012 TEDx talk, the MacArthur Fellowship-winning novelist builds her case with personal anecdotes of casual but devastating sexism in Nigeria and the United States.
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With its galloping pace and strange criminal bedfellows, this funny and engrossing film sometimes feels like the droll capers of the Ealing studio (maker of "The Lavender Hill Mob" among other small classics).
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Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app designed by frat brothers Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington with campuses in mind, allowed users to broadcast posts within a five-mile radius without creating a username.
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A tart-mouthed pistol, she corrals a plot packed with oddball encounters, including a droll Native American (Joseph Billingiere), tombstone-toothed barflies and townsfolk who look as if a bath might kill them.
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Comedy Mr. Barry is a one-of-a-kind comic — a droll, low-energy stand-up who uses meticulous pacing both to tell brilliantly funny personal stories and to relate carefully reasoned observations.
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For all the droll Pinocchio noses and flaming-pants icons, these fact-check operations perform a significant public service, arguably as important to political accountability as any journalistic invention of the past decade.
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She is regarded as one of the heirs to their droll conceptual art tradition, even as she edges into sculptural territory with her concrete pieces, their marble counterparts and other tactile thought-experiments.
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J.P. Funk redeems frustration in "Friend Zone," a droll complaint from a guy who'd rather play Mortal Kombat than field another Platonic heart-to-heart late-night phone call from his unrequited crush.
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"The Son of Joseph," written and directed by the American-born French filmmaker Eugène Green, is a droll comedic moral tale whose baroque trappings make it an initially puzzling but eventually winning delight.
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And so did black TV audiences throughout the country who, if you perused black Twitter followers' responses, thought Wilmore was doing pretty much the same droll, sarcastic beat-downs he's been delivering every weeknight.
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Kumar's deadpan humour and Shukla's wonderful turn as the droll judge whose bumbling demeanour hides a tough interior provide some bright sparks, but the rest of the film doesn't live up to these standards.
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Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly: Anyhow, there's one droll visual: Dr. Pym has a gigantic laboratory, a huge multi-level warehouse space — which he shrinks down to carry-on size and pulls as a suitcase.
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A similarly improbable secondary plot involving Marina, Pericles's brilliant daughter, is by turns perilous, droll and finally affecting with its happy conclusion of reunions that is, if not completely miraculous, at least divinely inspired.
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Glover infuses every single avenue he pursues here with a droll yet mildly alarmed earnestness, the sound of an erudite mind short-circuiting after being ensnared by its own cultivated web of pop culture.
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Founders Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, fresh out of college themselves, made the tough decision to geofence high schools and middle schools and effectively blocking 70 percent of its user base as a result.
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Hatfield's deadpan, slightly flat voice suits Newton-John's cheery, perhaps too neatly developed pop melodies, producing a droll, amused quality that rejuvenates both the original songs and the bluntness of Hatfield's own guitar-rock.
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While Hugh Hanson's costumes are subdued in color, the decaying throne room designed by Brittany Vasta is effectively shabby, and Tony Galaska's lighting at times looks poisonous, Ms. Monte does not neglect droll atmospheric touches.
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His mind may be on commerce, but Mr. Wang is nothing if not droll: his sense of fun encapsulated in Sophia, a bandanna-clad cyborg who took her place, without fanfare, in the front row.
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It turns out the wolf's gut harbors the best party in town, and some readers' sympathies might shift toward the carnivore — aided by the great Jon Klassen's droll paintings; no one does perturbed animals better.
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JON CARAMANICA Courtney Barnett's latest droll, sardonic anatomy of everyday frustration has a rockabilly backbeat, twangy guitars and a not-so-rockabilly chord progression that droops into dissonance and pulls itself upright, again and again.
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They'll know that Shadow (Ricky Whittle), just released from prison, hits the road with Mr. Wednesday (a droll Ian McShane) on a mission of unspecified aim but great importance that takes the two toward Chicago.
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"The time has come... for our paths to part ways, as we've decided to make our next moves as a company," co-founders Brooks Buffington Tyler Droll write in a blog post on the company's website.
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Each scene has its own droll, tactile beauty — for instance, one scene features a cemetery built out of bonbons and broccoli — but the whimsical fantasia of the film's set changes constitutes its emotional and intellectual core.
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In another Sci-Fest LA play, called Zebulon's Calling, a wonderfully droll alien, played by Michael Shamus Wiles, covets a glowing plastic ball that looks like something that could be found at a 99-cent store.
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It was also a reminder that Black-ish has remained fantastic throughout this third season, expertly bouncing back after an admittedly droll Disney-centric premiere (and anyway, aren't all going-to-Disney sitcom episodes the worst?).
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In books that include "The Man Who Ate Everything" and "It Must've Been Something I Ate," the exacting, droll essays by the lawyer-turned-food-writer Jeffrey Steingarten read like appetizing, persuasive legal briefs, with recipes.
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At times he reproduces whole entries verbatim, but more often he diverges freely from the original, collapsing multiple entries onto a single page and replacing Anne's droll commentary with more accessible (and often more dramatic) language.
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At the end of that year, Mr. Droll and Mr. Buffington laid off 60 percent of their employees, and last month, they shut down the operation, selling off intellectual property and employee contracts to Square Inc.
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He is dryly funny, and occasionally he returned to the busy group to deliver a droll comment on the technological advances they'd witnessed since the early days of 16-mm handhelds and 12-inch television screens.
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The visual, textual, and performative elements of the piece were droll enough to indicate that it was a work of art, but still offered enough provocation to leave you walking away unsettled by what could happen.
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Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, two former Furman University fraternity members, founded Yik Yak in 2013, and have raised around $75 million from Silicon Valley venture capitalists, placing a value of nearly $400 million on the company.
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John Force did not know Bobby Rahal well before Graham met Courtney, but Force said, "He reminds me a lot of his dad," meaning Graham was lower key and softer-spoken than Force, with a droll wit.
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With both Horgan and Parker on board, along with the droll bravado of Thomas Haden Church as Frances's soon-to-be-ex Robert, the show should have had more lightness, it should have bounded through its jokes.
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Joined by the pianist Matt Mitchell and the bassist Kim Cass, Ospovat closes the album with "Kim's Line," a short, droll piece that sums up the entire record's off-kilter allure in just 1 minute 20 seconds.
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Gilbert Rogin, who had an enviable run as a writer of droll short fiction for The New Yorker while building toward an impressive career as a top editor at Sports Illustrated and other magazines, died on Nov.
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But he uses several strategies, including his purposeful anachronisms (we see Michael Gough's Cardinal Del Monte using a pocket calculator in one droll scene), to draw a through line from Caravaggio to Jarman's own time and situation.
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The film — which, by the way, includes a surprising amount of droll humor — would be better if it trusted the audience to recognize this, rather than piling ordeals worthy of the Labors of Hercules onto its protagonist.
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Except for " UNDERSTAND ," the non-Hammons works were the only ones with labels, pencilled on the wall by Hauser & Wirth's registrar, who also inscribed some droll comments by Hammons ("It's Been Done Before"; "This reminds me of").
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Sara Wasdahl, age 17: "Everything's a Little Mad Here" Perceptive and cynical, filled with droll observations and wry humor, "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a sharp and witty collection of essays from American humorist David Sedaris.
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After conquering the terrifying Kilgrave (David Tennant) in Season 1 and dealing with her own unhinged mother (Janet McTeer) in Season 2, the droll detective finds herself on the trail of a classic serial killer in Season 3.
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Rappaport's usual surface pleasures apply — visual puns and droll dialogue, inventive minimal production design — as he "taunts and charms the viewer with manipulations," in the words of B. Ruby Rich, in order to "expose the manipulations" of cinema.
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Mr. McKellen — an unsurprisingly delightful and droll conversationalist — was recently in New York, and spoke with the Bagger, fireside, over tea at his hotel suite, about having to wear a prosthetic nose and his enduring disdain for selfies.
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Spalding Gray's droll, propulsive and moving monologue "Swimming to Cambodia" details his quest to experience a "perfect moment" while filming his small role in the director Roland Joffe's 1984 movie, "The Killing Fields," about the recent Cambodian genocide.
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The admonishments of their crotchety bus driver Wolfgang (also performed by Mr. Bormann), who lectures his passengers about punctuality and keeping the bus clean, are just a droll prelude to their disastrous arrival in their first stop, Dresden.
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The "passenger" riding atop the Falcon Heavy will be setting a more whimsical record as the first car sent into solar orbit - a deliberately droll bit of high-stakes, high-tech cross-promotion dreamed up by Musk himself.
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I loved Edward St. Aubyn's novel "Never Mind," a droll, tragic account of an abusive family, and the toxic, but hilarious, horrors of the English "upper" classes, and I immediately read the rest of the Patrick Melrose quintet.
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Kamau Bilal's "Baby Brother," a fragmentary, by turns droll and poignant documentary portrait of what happens when the filmmaker's youngest sibling, at 23, moves back in with their parents, is already available as a New York Times op-doc.
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Ms. Driver also interviews Basquiat's friends, lovers and collaborators, and while she shows a good deal of archival footage of the man himself — beautiful, with a lot of droll hairstyles — she withholds one thing: You never hear his voice.
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Lest this sounds like an all too serious affair, know that the memoir is peppered with anecdotes about notoriously closeted Hollywood stars (Rock Hudson), supportive gay mentors (Christopher Isherwood), and many failed sexual encounters, all told in Maupin's signature droll wit.
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Fleishman Is In Trouble reads so smoothly, you'll want to speed right through, but it's in your best interest to slow down — lest you miss any of the quick barbs or droll asides that make this book so utterly delectable.
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"This is a story about motherhood in 2018," a teaser trailer for the film declared, as accompanying droll piano tinkling transitioned to a soaring chorus that suggested all these struggles would be affirmed as "worth it" before the credits rolled.
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The other series are spiritual kin as well, with the star in each case serving as the producer: "Atlanta," a wonderfully droll effort from "Community's" Donald Glover; and "Fleabag," a British import that introduces Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a major talent.
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Other inclusions in "Property" are puzzling; "The Self-Seeding Sycamore", "The Royal Male" and "Negative Equity", despite their sometimes eclectic lexicon, are neatly droll, erring-on-twee stories depriving the reader of breadth of vista or, indeed, Ms Shriver's reassuring bite.
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They just posted a photograph of themselves clasping a soccer ball - a droll take on a photo of U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi holding a glowing orb that went viral last week.
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And the director Ken Marino, whose career breakout was in the comedy troupe the State, drops in some funny absurdist touches, including a droll turn from Tig Notaro as a pet therapist and Phoebe Neidhardt as an oversharing TV weatherperson.
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But quarterback Eli Manning stole the spotlight with his droll assessment of his teammates' trip, which was documented by some social media users who posted photos of the players on a boat in Miami, wearing mostly winter clothing but no shirts.
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The friends' interactions are framed by and interspersed with the observations of Alice (Ruby Frankel, in the show's most credible performance), a droll woman with a detachment that comes from being an aspiring writer and the group's only gay member.
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Ghosts of the past, both literal and figurative, haunt "T2 Trainspotting," Danny Boyle's droll and wistful return to the Scottish reprobates who, 21 years ago in "Trainspotting," made heroin addiction a blast and bodily waste a metaphor for squandered lives.
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With droll, dark humor, the TV host Georgia Hardstark and the comedian Karen Kilgariff, who are candid about their own difficult experiences, share local stories of murder and other violent acts from around the world, many provided by their listeners.
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At most of the performances I've visited since then, that figure has seemed considerably less, with the notable exception of "No Sex," Toshiki Okada's droll, karaoke-filled exploration of sexual abstinence and emotional repression featuring the German film star Franz Rogowski.
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Many may know Mizrahi as the subject of the 1994 documentary Unzipped, a cult fashion classic where we witness the droll personality hanging out with supermodels and celebrities, cracking jokes, and concocting a fashion collection based on Nanook of the North.
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Applewhite and Nettles, who went by the droll nicknames Bo and Peep (at various times they were also called Do and Ti, or simply the Two), exhorted their prospective flock to give up sex, alcohol and tobacco and leave their families behind.
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As the smartly droll HBO comedy kicks off its third season, Silicon Valley picks up where it left off with renewed vigor: Richard Hendrix (Thomas Middleditch) has been fired as CEO of Pied Piper and offered the job of Chief Technology Officer.
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Mr. Seinfeld's droll series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" is still probably the best-known original show on Crackle, which has been slowly building its roster, hoping for the kind of breakthrough that has brought other streaming services to the forefront of television.
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Gaiman has added to the cast of Crowley's and Aziraphale's hellish and heavenly superiors, to reinforce the idea of their working to subvert divine plans, and this creates small, droll parts for performers like Jon Hamm (Gabriel) and Anna Maxwell Martin (Beelzebub).
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And she dominates the documentary, both in footage from the '60s and in interview segments filmed just before her 90th birthday, in which Ms. Price recounts the opening night with impressive detail and droll humor, along with charming (and amply justified) self-regard.
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Marian Cannon Schlesinger, a droll and high-spirited protofeminist artist, writer and eyewitness to history in the Kennedy White House as the first wife of the president's resident intellectual, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., died on Saturday at her home in Cambridge, Mass.
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Yik Yak, the now-defunct, localized, anonymous messaging app that Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, two students at Furman University in South Carolina, founded in 2013 and that soon became associated with bullying, discriminatory speech and threats of bomb and gun violence.
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Although Manning was renowned for never saying much in media interviews — a strategy modeled after another New York athletic star of the era, Derek Jeter — his teammates and the reporters regularly covering the team came to appreciate a droll, biting sense of humor.
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Some artists, like Fan Lijun turned towards Cynical Realism and others toward Political Pop, terms invented by art critic and curator Li Xianting in 1991 to explain the droll, existential, or gaudy styles that were appearing, alternating between expressing angst and sly mockery.
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Mr. Cooper, a fifth-generation descendant of the early-19th-century herald of historical fiction, was the author of eight books, a longtime writer for The New Yorker and the droll chronicler of goings-on at the august Century Association's clubhouse in Midtown Manhattan.
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When my recent heartbreak was at its most raw, I basically had no patience for anything that wasn't contemporary fiction written by a woman, with a female narrator who had a slightly depressive and honest-yet-droll voice — aka, voices that mirrored my interior one.
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But as directed by Trish Sie, the movie is bubbly, it's fast, it's hella synthetic-clever, and it's an avid showcase for the personalities of its stars: the skeptically pert Anna Kendrick, the radiant and vivacious Hailee Steinfeld, and the terrifyingly droll Rebel Wilson.
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It's followed by an inoffensively droll scene of Queen Cersei talking her way out of her interest loans—leave it to this show to dramatize an audit—opposite the Iron Bank's spokesgoon, Tycho Nestoris, whom she plans to pay off using Highgarden's pilfered coffers.
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Satirized by hilarious mockumentaries like This is Spinal Tap (21977) and Life of Rock with Brian Pern (0003-2000), Gabriel's visual theatrics remained tongue-in-cheek, punctuated by droll wit and lewd humor, even as their seriousness of intent took on a cinematic dimension.
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Introduced wearing a floridly patterned robe with matching ascot, Bogart is less formidable than the tough guys he played in the 1940s, marginalized by a colorful parade of character actors including the unexpectedly droll Gina Lollobrigida, appearing in her first major English-language film.
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But in an open letter shared with Variety — by turns defiant, droll and erudite — O'Brien said that he and his accuser, Robert Alex Kaseberg, had agreed to "resolve our dispute amicably," aborting a trial that was set to begin May 28 in San Diego.
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Frida Ghitis: Schiff's opening day plan worked to perfection If President Donald Trump and his Republican defenders thought the first day of the Senate impeachment trial would be a day to bore viewers with droll procedural debates, they could not have been more wrong.
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Hicks's posthumously published autobiography, I SCARE MYSELF (Jawbone/Quarto, paper, $22.95) — the title is also the name of one of his best-known songs — captures his distinctively droll voice, even when addressing (but by no means making light of) his long battle with alcoholism.
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This unabashedly droll account of the author's search for a hangover cure posits a hangover taxonomy (seven kinds, including "the Creeper" and "the Burrower"); assesses hangover literature from Pliny the Elder to Kingsley Amis; and recalls the experience of flying a fighter plane after a boozy night.
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It will also have to submit to a review by a three-person monitoring committee — Mr. Orban adopted a droll tone in referring to it as it is commonly known, "the council of the wise" — that will determine if the Hungarian government is meeting several conditions.
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Meyer's insights into her paramour are both discerning and droll ("We all pay a price for becoming ourselves, but he's paid a high price to play someone else: a Harvard version of Cary Grant"), and her perspicacious assessments are consistent with the self-possessed woman she was.
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Instead of sitting with an ice pack on your head and listening to John King yakking on CNN about red and blue paths to victory, revel in John Lithgow's droll old war horse, Winston Churchill, as he makes his imperial progress up the aisle at Westminster Abbey.
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Everybody knows more than they pretend to, and both husband and wife can be found confiding their secrets at tedious length to their houseguests, Pete Davenport (a droll, dry Stephen Payne), who is Lily Dale's stepfather, and his great-nephew, Carson (a pitch-perfect Jon Orsini).
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It was produced by the Stones themselves after their manager-producer Andrew Loog Oldham quit, leaving the band to indulge any and all studio whims: free-for-all jamming, horn and string arrangements, endless percussion overdubs, spoken-word interludes that probably seemed droll at the time.
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"Six" is the remarkably recent brainchild of two remarkably young theater-lovers: Toby Marlow, a 25-year-old who refers to Beyoncé and Lady Gaga as "my mums," and Lucy Moss, a droll 26-year-old who wears Harry Potter spectacles and neon-detailed Buffalo platform sneakers.
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JULIET TAKES A BREATH By Gabby Rivera It's 2003 and Juliet Milagros Palante, the droll and earnest 19-year-old heroine of this debut novel, is struggling to breathe — both literally (she has asthma) and figuratively (she feels like there "isn't enough air" in the Bronx).
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Friend's distinctive bay comes from deep in his diaphragm and his throat is thick with muscles capable of producing a high-decibel type "whoop-whooping" that provokes droll imitation by children and adults (who really are too old for that kind of thing, especially leaning out their car windows).
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For me, it was the droll way Mr. Warren, a creative director and stylist, both updated and queered the look of macho '70s blaxploitation film stars — the leather jacket with floppy lapels stitched in white, the snuggly mock turtleneck and the snugly knotted durag made from an Hermès scarf.
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To the many nonhuman species she writes about, the author brings her characteristically vivid descriptions and droll humor: We learn that male and female African forest weaver birds sing together, in unison; that male macaque monkeys sometimes carry and groom their babies; that female sandpipers are shamelessly promiscuous.
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Though there is quite a bit of spoken French dialogue in the piece, the Met's cast pulled it off, including the veteran baritone Alessandro Corbelli as Sulpice, Marie's protector in the regiment, and the gravelly voiced actress Kathleen Turner, wonderfully droll as the non-singing Duchess of Krakenthorp.
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This willingness to mix pattern and color, layer voluminously and wallow voluptuously in the past — even when it means grappling (or not) with Orientalist fantasies and colonialism — makes the droll optimism of this cabal's unmistakably English work, which spans houses, hotels and London's proliferating members' clubs, seem paradoxically modern.
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As our boat wove among islands occupied by single stately homes sheltered by pines and leafless trees, a knowledgeable, droll guide told us all we wanted to know about the picturesque archipelago, from its ice age geological origins to its roguish Prohibition-era calling as a haven for liquor smugglers.
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He slept on the floor of a school hut with the rest of us; I remember waking up on the first morning to have Alan peer over from his sleeping bag and say in his trademark droll tone, 'you didn't mention that mice would feature so prominently in our trip'.
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I bought "Getting the Best Out of Al-Hajj" by Abu Muneer Ismail Davids, a droll manual that includes invaluable advice, including where to camp at the plains of Mina, why you should bring an inflatable mattress, and what direction to walk to avoid being crushed by the crowds of pilgrims.
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But by calling this one 100% Fresh, Sandler is winking to his critics, responding to decades of harsh reviews with an undeniably good special, one where he reminds the world that behind years of box office droll is an effortlessly gifted comic who can still produce laughs in any era.
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The perceptive hero of James Marshall's "Snake, His Story" (part of his droll, intimate 1970s-era quartet, "Four Little Troubles") — whose ability to hear sets him apart from his slithery classmates and causes his parents much consternation — learns to appreciate his unique abilities after he thwarts a pair of criminal bulldogs.
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Manhattan has decamped to Mars, meaning, essentially, that people know that God is real and that he no longer cares.) Some of the most delightful moments are the droll, creepy interludes with the dotty Veidt (Jeremy Irons), isolated on a country estate where he experiments with and on his retainers.
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" Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) In perfect contrast to his other, showier roles, Wilder's brilliant take on the chocolate maven is more about his wonderful restraint, from gently crooning the song "Pure Imagination" to delivering a series of droll one-liners, among them his insincere warning to misbehaving children: "Stop. Don't.
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A little of Casablancas' current headspace might be blamed on the response to his first album with the studio rats in the Voidz, Tyranny, a proggy, apoplectic record of dayglo soloing and abstract epics that shattered the droll melodiousness that longtime fans had come to expect of his work away from the Strokes.
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Jump to present-day Dallas, where we meet Edgar (a droll Thomas Lennon), a comic-store clerk who finds a doll belonging to his dead brother and decides to auction it off at a convention marking the 30th anniversary of Toulon's most infamous killings — until the ones that are about to happen, presumably.
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In the droll modern-Shakespeare riff "Hamlet Goes Business" (on Friday, Saturday and Sunday), the melancholy Dane fits right into Kaurismaki's universe, while in "Ariel" (on Friday), a miner (Turo Pajala) loses his job and stays stoic through an unceasing parade of misery before coming out on, well, the other side of hope.
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Facebook Had an Impressively Bad Day Matt Levine is wonderfully droll on Facebook's record stock decline: There is a popular, slightly tongue-in-cheek notion in the financial industry that losing a billion dollars of client money is a badge of honor, something to be proud of, a good thing to have on your resume.
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" In the second chapter, Witt attends an orientation at OneTaste—an organization in San Francisco dedicated to the practice of orgasmic meditation (OM)—led by two expert practitioners, Alisha and Eli, whom Witt describes, with a droll acuity that is characteristic of her writing, as having the "human neutrality of an Apple store or IKEA.
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" These painstakingly demarcated parameters are a reminder of the opportunities, as well as the obstacles, posed by the technology that has defined 1927, along with its droll Edward Gorey-meets-Max Fleischer aesthetic, since it made its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007 with the eerie "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
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It wouldn't be surprising if Marvel's own "Deadpool" had provided some inspiration: The superhero title character, played with obvious delight by Ryan Reynolds, mugs at the camera like Jim from "The Office," quips at his victims while slicing them to bits, and banters a mile a minute with his best friend, Weasel (the droll T. J. Miller).
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Extrapolating from a droll "hotel for criminals only" concept recently seen in a sequence from 2014's "John Wick," this movie makes the locale a combination hotel/hospital, sets the story a decade in the future, adds appropriately advanced technology, and surrounds it with a rioting Los Angeles populace up in arms over the privatization of water.
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The story takes place between the events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Episode IV: A New Hope, and features Rogue One characters Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and droll droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk), as they plot to sneak into a facility located on Mustafar — the molten planet where Anakin Skywalker was transformed into Darth Vader.
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His mechanistic imagery (machine parts rendered to vaguely erotic or sinister effect) and typography still dazzle, and his caprices, such as, from 1919, a picture frame that holds only a few strands of yarn, attached to slips of paper bearing droll words—can seem to exhaust, before the letter, the repertoires of nineteen-seventies Conceptual artists.
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The person I approached was the fashion illustrator and stylist Bill Mullen, whose droll feed — equal parts memoir, style commentary and grim account of a renovation from hell conducted by an upstairs neighbor he refers to as Minnie Castavet — has become digital catnip for those of us hooked on a growing trend for using Instagram to write long.
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Now, it makes sense that the Good Place is in a bit of disrepair, because the head accountant (a delightfully droll Stephen Merchant, clinging to an "Existence's Best Boss" mug as a winking nod to both the American Office and the British Office, both of which Merchant co-created) reveals that nobody's been admitted to the Good Place in more than 500 years.
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As perversely droll and symptomatic as it is to experience the rhapsody of Fernandez's loveless and lopsided sadomasochistic cybernetic pleasures playing within the male mystique, I could not help but also view the nasty permissiveness of Paradox of Pleasure in the bright light of artistic misogyny that shines from Kate Millett's seminal 1970 study Sexual Politics through to today's #TimesUp movement.
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Perhaps the story of Yik Yak and a group of women at Mary Washington, a public university in Fredericksburg, Va., with about 203,000 undergraduate students, will finally convince Mr. Droll and Mr. Buffington that Yik Yak needs to change, or at least persuade its blue-chip investors at Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson to pull the plug on the company.
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At Random, the posthumous 1977 autobiography by Random House co-founder and media personality Bennett Cerf, is required reading not only for Cerf's droll style in talking about his authors, but because of how he chronicles his life against the backdrop of great changes, from the family-owned smaller businesses of the 19403s to the first wave of consolidation in the 1960s.
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But spaciously congregated here by curator Thierry Raspail is a previously unseen ensemble of 170 diverse and jarringly inconsistent (quality wise) artworks of less notoriety — including documentation of early droll and laconic performances, some surprising sound works, and his frequently disparaged and dismissed diagrammatic paintings, such as "Related to: Zig Zag Path Zuv Between Nodes U and V in a Planar Mesh" (2001).
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In many respects the movie is a conventional please-don't-move-into-that-house item, but this story of an ambitious painter who transplants his family into a roomy albeit perhaps-Satanically-possessed new residence moves at a spanking pace and is rather droll in the way it plays with horror conventions, particularly those that associate heavy metal with the devil himself.
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In making the case for Jackson as a herald of Friedan and others, Franklin doesn't say much about Jackson's humor—which is a pity, because one of her most distinctive and appealing characteristics is a tendency to interleave unheimlich atmospheres and dark portraits of psychological breakdown with bursts of spry drawing-room comedy, droll Mitfordian dialogue, and the odd joke about eating children.
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I can imagine if you swapped the historical fanfare for a mechanical, fencing-esque vibe, with a droll, nameless BBC commentator talking in technicality tongues, making you want to smash that red button to stick the volleyball on, it would fit right in with the other D-list sports that people like to pretend they know a lot about when they watch these things.
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But as the dry-eyed queen grows more remote (and the rest of the royals strive and sometimes fail to justify their continued existence), the characters who earn our tears are the ones trying to escape their gilded cages: Princess Margaret (a nuanced, empathetic Helena Bonham Carter), the sensitive young Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor), and his sister Princess Anne (a very droll Erin Doherty).
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Other characters floated in and out of the mix: Gavin Belson, the narcissistic CEO of Hooli, Monica Hall, an angel investor who never stops believing in Richard (and one of the rare women on the show), Jian-Yang, one of Erlich's tenants who refuses to leave the house, and Laurie Bream, a droll, withholding head of a VC firm who becomes financially entangled with Pied Piper's future.
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What lingers of Tolkien's work in readers' minds are, for instance, the droll episode when Bilbo Baggins is captured by the Cockney trolls in The Hobbit; the confrontation of the wizard Gandalf and the Balrog on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm in The Fellowship of the Ring; Frodo and Sam's agonizing crawl up Mount Doom at the climax of The Return of the King.
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If nothing else, it stands head and shoulders above its peers, though that's a remarkably low bar to clear considering the endless line of Kate Hudson/Matthew McConaughey wedding-fever droll that would come to define the genre in the 20023s with films like, and this is just from memory, How to Groom a Groom in 22002 Grooms, World War Wedding, and Brides, Motherfucker!.
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They say it all should just go away: both the groundbreaking "I Spy" adventure series of the 1960s and the hugely successful "The Cosby Show" family sitcom of the 1980s; the childhood reveries once delivered by the now fallen comedian, whose droll timing, sharply observed (and deftly exaggerated) details influenced generations of stand-up comics; the contributions he made to education on television and to educational institutions throughout the country.
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Meanwhile, Moretti's (real-life) wife, Silvia Nono, gives birth to their (real-life) son, Pietro, and the filmmaker interweaves his droll struggles with the basics of parenting and his anger at the state of Italian society (which leads him to interview a group of newly arrived refugees) and, for that matter, at the state of the cinema (in derisive riffs aimed at the Hollywood films "Heat" and "Strange Days").
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Ed was working on a piece about female love interests in the early issues of her favorite comic books and how very odd it must be for them to operate within a story where you're capable, courageous, droll, at the top of your field professionally and yet somehow still not permitted the brains to perceive that the man you see or work with every day is exactly the same person as the superhero who saves your life at night.
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" (Before "Porgy," she added, one of her biggest challenges was Nico Muhly's 2013 opera "Two Boys," whose text-message-laden libretto often gave her no choice on this front.) And what about that droll but linguistically thorny "It Ain't Necessarily So" lyric, in which the irreverent Sportin' Life explains the biblical story of Jonah as follows: FO' HE MADE HIS HOME INTHAT FISH'S ABDOMEN Well, Ms. Méndez-Oliver swapped out "home" for "casa" and "abdomen" for "panza," which translates as "belly.
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