drollery

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Recent Examples of drollery He is played by Ethan Hawke, a mainstay of Linklater’s movies, in a remarkable amalgam of bitterness, exuberance, drollery, tenderness, frustration, and tremendous artistic passion. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025 Matthew Rankin’s latest surreal comedy, between hilarious drollery and bitter disillusionment. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024 He is played by Ethan Hawke, a mainstay of Linklater’s movies, in a remarkable amalgam of bitterness, exuberance, drollery, tenderness, frustration, and tremendous artistic passion. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025 Matthew Rankin’s latest surreal comedy, between hilarious drollery and bitter disillusionment. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024 His ambition and synthetic public persona are the butt of countless withering drolleries. Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 Griffin’s front-court mate DeAndre Jordan, although deeply intense, mirrored Griffin’s drollery in candid postgame interviews. Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024 But his method is mostly charging into the fray, shouting battle cries or tossing out Australian drollery. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024 The starry cast runs full force with his nesting-doll plots and deadpan drolleries, the color palette comes saturated in a Pantone riot of blues, pinks and egg-yolk yellows, and the tone flips nimbly from tender to absurd, more Dahl sweetness than arsenic. Leah Greenblatt, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drollery
Noun
  • She was raised in a society—a West Indian society—that did not put much of a premium on women’s bodies, where any kind of intimacy was a joke.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • And yet the world is too driven by algorithms, too fragmented in its tastes, to ever be on the same page again and get the same jokes.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Friday, March 27: This dance troupe blends traditional African styles with those from Black fraternities and sororities and contemporary forms in a show that also features storytelling, humor and audience participation.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
  • Superhero cinema has dominated since then, and Brad Bird's visual style and humor feel less novel.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Friday’s Resident Alien had it all: uproarious laughs, romance, heartbreak and a whole lot of vomit.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 June 2025
  • And in a company which faithfully recreates stiff 18th-century acting conventions, McCormack’s unapologetically sassy Semira was a welcome change of pace, drawing the afternoon’s biggest laughs.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The irony is that those upgrades had finally started to accelerate just as Microsoft issued its surprising news.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Proulx understood the irony: The same vast spaces that promise freedom also isolate, corral and break people.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The witticism, sometimes misattributed to James Baldwin, began to spread a few months into the coronavirus pandemic, as the shock of mass layoffs started to give way to broader dissatisfaction with work.
    Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
  • His frequent presence in lecture halls advanced him as one of America’s earliest stand-up comedians, and many of his wry witticisms, whether they were written or performed, remain part of the public conversation.
    Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The comedy was first announced in 2024 and recently premiered at Cannes 2025.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 23 June 2025
  • Some say Hollywood has given up on comedy, but comedy should never give up on Hollywood, despite better incentives being offered elsewhere.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 June 2025

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“Drollery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drollery. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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