Word: droll
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...phone during meetings. (I stand guilty as charged. On occasion, I have also been known to whisper.) We doodlers, fidgeters and whisperers always get the same jokey, passive-aggressive line from the authority figure at the front of the room: "I'm sorry, are we bothering you?" How droll. But the underlying message is clear: Pay attention...
...20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolls and therefore pile up as many of you a piece as we can get—this is what too many of you seem to forget. “Coleridge...
...nasty jokes about Hillary Clinton; John McCain, for joking about using U.S. cigarette exports as a weapon to kill Iranians. Partisans argued over whether Saturday Night Live was more unfair to Obama than Comedy Central was to Clinton. Across America, the body politic is busily making mountains out of droll hills...
...touch with student desires flew following these announcements.“He’s totally not the type of person to have an authoritative stance on alcohol,” said Katharine Pilbeam ’10, adding that her father, known by many for his droll sense of humor, often makes fun of her for not choosing “quality” drinks. “Yes he’s a little out of touch, but he’s a parent, for God’s sake. I think the side Harvard has chosen...
...afford it (false). He devoted more and more of his stump speech to slagging Clinton. "She's got the kitchen sink flying, the china flying - the buffet is coming at me," he said during a whistle-stop tour of southeastern Pennsylvania. His delivery of the kitchen-sink line was droll, but the rest of the tour was surprisingly soporific. He seemed fed up with campaigning - as any reasonably sane human being would be at this point - and embittered by the turn the race had taken...