Word: drollness
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...escalator, but it is a dazzlingly dense journey into the mind of a man who meditates on subjects like the delights of perforated paper. His second novel, Room Temperature, occurs during the 20-minute reverie of a young husband feeding his six-month-old daughter, but it explores, in droll, Andy Kaufmanish detail, the history of a marriage. U and I, Baker's third book, is an extended brooding on a single self-mortifying question: Is John Updike a better writer than...
...ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether 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 dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...
Only Mabel (soprano Jenny Giering) responds favorably and, in a breath-taking display of polished vocal range, she flirts with Frederic by breaking into song every time he tries to kiss her. Christine van Kipnis' choreography displays the coquettish maidens' spying on Mabel and Frederic's romantic conversation with droll grace...
Reading poems and telling droll tales, Amichai discussed Jews, war, Jerusalem, love, family and history...
Aquino defended her Foreign Secretary as "an uncomplicated man" who would never contemplate murder. Manglapus, a droll diplomat who once set his thoughts on U.S.-Philippine relations to music in a theatrical comedy called Yanky Panky, denied the allegations...