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- noun The
quality of beingodd orcomical
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Examples
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It's hard for me to accurately convey the beauty of Elliot's story, the drollness of his script, the visual charm of his artwork, or the twisted kind of neurotic Jewish tenderness conveyed in his film.
George Heymont: It's a Small World After All (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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It's hard for me to accurately convey the beauty of Elliot's story, the drollness of his script, the visual charm of his artwork, or the twisted kind of neurotic Jewish tenderness conveyed in his film.
George Heymont: It's a Small World After All (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010
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I do concede that it's almost like Hess took a Wes Anderson movie and made it PG, but it's still got a cartoony, larger-than-life kinda drollness whereas Anderson has a more story-book-for-adults kinda drollness.
Ronald Chevalier Posts New Video on Gentlemen Broncos Viral Site | /Film 2008
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Woody Allen and other wits did it first, and best, and anything any of us have to add to it in 2010 should sparkle with drollness and freshness and a dozen other - nesses.
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Woody Allen and other wits did it first, and best, and anything any of us have to add to it in 2010 should sparkle with drollness and freshness and a dozen other - nesses.
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We'd had ample opportunity to digest reports of Mandelson's drollness about Gordon Brown's marketability ("I'd settle for the tie being straight"); we had been primed for the shock of seeing Lord M in his underpants (it wasn't a Chippendales moment).
Rewind TV: Any Human Heart; Mandelson: The Real PM?; JFK: The Making of Modern Politics; Peep Show Phil Hogan 2010
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As the years passed he would see the braveness of it and the courage; the audacity and the drollness -- certainly the drollness.
Static 2010
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Presumably Mr. Hume's incisiveness is maximally "above all" including his drollness which, as we've learned, is above his fairness.
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Presumably Mr. Hume's incisiveness is maximally "above all" including his drollness which, as we've learned, is above his fairness.
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With endearing drollness, he was hilarious during practice sessions when he told teacher Cheryl Burke how great he was doing.
Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars Season 6 Premieres: Matlin and Yamaguchi Shine 2008
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