drollery in a sentence

Examples

1. It's entertainment all the way as Saki parlays Wodehousian drollery with O . Henry trickery.
2. He scales up the passion in Housman's scholarly fervor and the acid in his drollery.
3. In this piece his knack for mimicking inflated, academic and archaic pronouncements attains the zenith of drollery.
4. Ms . Gaffney and Ms . Siegfried bring dead-on drollery and restraint to their various incarnations.
5. Australia, one of the most eccentric places on Earth, seems tailor-made for his drollery.
6. Meanwhile, Whitehead is up to his drollery again, making the verbal nattering and the physical floundering endurable.
7. Indeed, Mr . M .'s way of getting even with the world appears to be drollery.
8. This strange and fascinating book, filled with drollery and horror, exhibits the outer limits of historical condensation.
9. Which would not be such an unfunny premise if it were explored with a trace of drollery or originality.
10. The reviewer recommended the book's " quaint drollery, its whimsical satire and delightfully quiet irony ".