Word: droll
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...Franklin, for instance, who invented the bifocal, the Franklin stove, and said all those laboriously droll things in Poor Richard's Almanac"? Not so, says the hero; it was a loyal mouse who gave Ben the big idea in every instance, and who furthermore rode the kite the day electricity was discovered...
...keeping entirely to surfaces, a play that strives after popular appeal is never compelled to make compromises. Even so, the writing sometimes fails it: before the story gathers momentum, it often seems more cute than droll, more hack-professional than peasantlike. It is not until the teahouse is building that the captain and the colonel are sufficiently at odds to become hilarious. And it is not until the teahouse is built, and there is music and graceful Mariko Niki's geisha dance, that the play takes on its tinkly charm. But by keeping its best foot backward, The Teahouse...
Ragtime, a stiff-legged couple does a droll burlesque of oldtime dance routines while a narrator delivers a mock lecture on the subject. Audiences leave the theater well entertained, if not exactly enlightened...
...droll, Maupassant-like tale about a young married woman and her lover, who fritter away the few hours they have together in bickering and jealous suspicion...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...