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"Midlife" combines acuity, frankness and drollery in a style that melds Aristotle with Kurt Vonnegut.

The titles "New York Biennial" or "Paris Biennial" could not possibly conjure the same drollery.

Come what may, you refuse to deprive your friend or co-worker or podiatrist of your drollery.

And, as he so often does and gets nary enough credit for, he delivered it with perfectly timed drollery.

Typical of Mr. Hilsenrath's unconventional storytelling, a blend of dread and drollery, was his account of how he started smoking.

Later, at WCBS-FM, the groundbreaking oldies station, he continued his drollery while exhuming the music he had played decades earlier.

Unlike most of Bakhchanyan's works — marked by agonized self-reflexivity and somewhat forced drollery — these drawings appear both playful and confident, with an irresistible spontaneous humor.

His voice is neither large nor particularly rich (nor was Coward's), but his phrasing has the lightness and drollery, and the occasional bite, that's ideal for Coward.

Topped with semi-spoken, Dylan-tinged vocals and lyrics that switch between candor and drollery, its music is like folk-rock wrapped around a post-punk armature.

It's hard to know what to make of the novel's flirtation with drollery, since it really is just a flirtation; no one would call this a tragicomic narrative.

Even Mr. Jeunet's inventive, cinema-infatuated mise-en-scène is steeped in a sort of "so it goes" (or "ça va") drollery, sentimentality plus cynicism being the quintessential French equation.

Start with "The Invention of Thanksgiving," a funny and moving four-minute animated video narrated by Smith in a style that he has of deadpan drollery with gravitas at its heart.

Though at times eclipsed by his fondness for drollery, Mr. Tillis's early artistic reputation rested on the decidedly sober material he wrote for honky-tonk singers like Mr. Pierce and Ray Price.

"Infinite Football" (on May 2212), a new bit of drollery from the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu ("Police, Adjective"), focuses on Laurentiu Ginghina, a real-life bureaucrat who wants to rewrite the rules of soccer.

Until that point, "Bernhardt/Hamlet," a deluxe Roundabout Theater Company production, is breakneck backstage comedy, swiveling like its Lazy Susan of a set (by Beowulf Boritt) among scenes of romance, Rialto gossip, rehearsal drollery and literary exploration.

" Mr. Pédron, his friend and former colleague, said of Mr. de Baleine, with a touch of drollery: "What he loved the most was long-form reporting, because those stories would send him far away for a pretty long time.

The DNA of all three films — "Animal House" opened in 1978, and "Caddyshack" came two years later — lurks in a lot of the teen-boy films: the four-alarm lunacy, casual obnoxiousness and glorified impunity, but little of the tenderness and drollery.

Drollery is exceedingly difficult to quote out of context, so you'll have to trust me that when Deepa — the boys' mother — thinks about her future with her husband but is "in denial too, convinced they would kill themselves," it's almost a laugh-out-loud moment.

A familiar comedy subgenre — that of hapless protagonists having misadventures at a wedding gathering at an exotic resort (see: "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates") — is given a low-key workout in "Sundowners," a Canadian indie seeking to subvert expectations but offering only drollery in their place.

A recent report by a blue-ribbon Royal Commission, Whither Our Canadian Drollery, recommends intercepting Canadian comics bound for Los Angeles and New York at the border and examining their brains, in the hope of uncovering a "humor gene" that can be sold to the Americans so they can start growing their own damn jokesters.

53; they reappeared in Wit and Drollery, 1661, p. 260; and in Merry Drollery Compleat, 1670, and again in Loyal Songs, 1731; oddly enough, they are not in the Rump Collection.

Buckstone's acting was described as "a union of shrewdness and drollery, with their interaction upon each other ... was irresistibly comic."Marston, Westland. Our Recent Actors (Boston, 1888), vol.

Page from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, showing a drollery on the right margin. Drollery detail from The Rylands Haggadah A drollerie, often also called a grotesque, from French language, is a small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. Examples include cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish's mouth, bird-like dragons with an elephant's head on the back.

Carrying flags it jumped over the cannons and fired them. Later in the engagement, Joyce, for the sake of a smoother presentation, replaced this part of the act with a riding turn. Next, the drollery of an English comic brought forth mild laughter.

Side 1: # The Fun of It: "Drollery" – Rel. 1966 # The Bumble Bees: "Girl of My Kind" – Rel. 1967 # The Phantoms: "Someday I'm Somebody" – Rel. 1965 # Chapter II: "East of My Place" # The Jets: "I Was So Glad" # The Haigs: "Never Die" – Rel.

David Fickling Books published The Murdstone Trilogy in 2014 to wide critical acclaim. It is commonly referred to as a satirical commentary on the fantasy genre.Nicolette Jones, The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet, review: 'delicious drollery', The Telegraph, 9 December 2014.David Fickling, Book Publisher's Release.

In The Sunshine Girl (1912), as Brenda Blacker, The Daily Mail said that Ediss "revels in the reckless drollery of" the role."The Sunshine Girl", Daily Mail, 26 February 1912 Ediss next played in The Girl on the Film (1913) in the London production, and then in the Broadway production, as Euphemia Knox.

Atkinson, writing for The New York Times, said "Robert Ardrey has extraordinary Flair. He has chosen a fresh subject and populated it with pungent characters; he has also worked at it with drollery and excitement. Casey Jones is written with humorous insight into the character of odd and muscular men; the dialogue is spontaneously original; the scenes are comic and sympathetic."Atkinson, Brooks.

Correspondence, 8.90 Richard had been a member of The Club since 1782. His contacts with Samuel Johnson were fairly slight, and on one occasion involved a rebuke to the younger man for futile attempts at "smart drollery". No evidence has been found to support the claim that he was married. He should not be confused with his uncle, also named Richard Burke.

Praising the film's ensemble cast, Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com wrote that Khurrana's "candid disposition and roguish face ensures his street smart drollery works like a breeze". With worldwide earnings of over against a budget of , Vicky Donor emerged as a commercial success. At the Filmfare Awards ceremony, Khurrana was awarded trophies for Best Male Debut and Best Male Playback Singer.

In a 1946 discussion of fantastic literature, Edward Wagenknecht referred to "Hope Mirrlees' unappreciated masterpiece Lud- in-the-Mist".Edward Wagenknecht, "The Little Prince Rides the White Deer: Fantasy and Symbolism in Recent Literature", College English 7(8): 431-437. May 1946. David Langford and Mike Ashley describe Lud-in-the-Mist as "a moving book, shifting unpredictably from drollery to menace to a high poignancy that sticks in the mind".

In works such as Demeter (1985), which New York Times critic Grace Glueck noted for its deadpan satire and camp drollery, he addressed the voyeuristic and theatrical aspects of looking and reading art. Later in the decade, he created his "Guadeloupe" series: radiant, tropical-island scenes based on recollections of beaches, café life and agricultural activities there.Adrian, Dennis. "David Sharpe at Zaks Gallery," Chicago Gallery Guide, May 1987.

The unusual name of the opening song is a double entendre, but only for Dutch listeners: "drollery" is very similar to the Dutch word for excrement. "Someday I'm Somebody" is an example of the sometimes clumsy titles and lyrics that these bands utilize in their English-language songs. The final cut by The Outsiders is from their legendary first album, one of the truly essential studio albums in all of rock music.

A guest of their first program was Marlene Dietrich, who had become famous singing Hollaender's songs, including "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt". The December 1931 show Allez-Hopp! was reviewed by Alfred Polgar in Die Weltbühne, who wrote about her ability to present with a "trinity" of temperament, drollery and grace ("Dreieinigkeit von Temperament, Drolligkeit und Grazie"), lively physical humour ("lebhaftem körperlichem Witz") and biting parody ("saftig im Parodistischen"). In 1932, Hollaender and Schoop married.

Charles Archibald Walker Rose CIE FRGS (1879-1961), ubiquitously known as Archie Rose, was a British diplomat, explorer and businessman in China during the early twentieth century.Obituary in The Times, Mr. Archibald Rose, 9 March 1961, p.19 Rose's obituary in The Times stated that he was 'a lovable and saint-like man. His dandiacal appearance and his taste for drollery were unsure guides to his true character, in which the dominant strain was a sort of earnest but unobtrusive chivalry'.

Goodman Ace (15 January 1899 – 25 March 1982), born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humorist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist. "Goody" (as he was known to friends) is not always the most recognizable writer/performer of his era by today's reader or listener, but his low-key, literate drollery and softly tart way of tweaking trends and pretenses made him one of the most sought after writers in radio and television from the 1930s through the 1960s.

""The Pirates of Penzance", The Daily News, 15 January 1880, p. 6 The Tribune called it "a brilliant and complete success", commenting, "The humor of the Pirates is richer, but more recondite. It demands a closer attention to the words [but] there are great stores of wit and drollery ... which will well repay exploration. ... The music is fresh, bright, elegant and merry, and much of it belongs to a higher order of art than the most popular of the tunes of Pinafore.

As an actor Saker was most successful in parts requiring drollery and facial expression. His Shakespearean clowns were notable examples of low-comedy acting. However, he made his chief reputation as a manager. His period of management at the Alexandra, Liverpool, was rendered notable by a series of revivals of Shakespearean plays, including The Winter's Tale, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Comedy of Errors In all his undertakings he was ably assisted by his wife, who survived him.

Extremely proficient in metrical composition, and commanding an inexhaustible fund of drollery, he cultivated with especial success the comical poetic tale, frequently inclining toward frivolity, but teeming with fun. Many of his works have been illustrated by Johann Heinrich Ramberg, a renowned illustrator and painter of the Goethe era. The widespread popularity of Langbein's Schwänke (1792, 21st ed. 1888) was almost equaled by that of his merry tales in prose, such as Thomas Kellerwurm (1806), Magister Zimpels Brautfahrt, and others, distinguished for inventive faculty and pleasing diction.

British scholar Edith Hall criticised Fry's limited selection of myths in her review for The Guardian. and said that the book's lack of a contents page or index means that the reader is not warned of its uncomprehensive nature. She goes on however to commend Fry for putting his fame to constructive use and to say that his "distinctive voice undoubtedly adds something lively, humorous and intimate to myth's psychological dimension. People who enjoy his media personality and particular style of post‑Wodehouse English drollery are in for a treat".

Lady Carnarvon died on 3 June 1643 of smallpox . Anecdotes of her are to be found in the Strafford Papers (ii, 47) and the Sydney Papers (ii, 621) and a poem addressed to her is printed in Choice Drollery, 1656. Lord Carnarvon survived her only by a few months; he was killed at the first Battle of Newbury on 20 September 1643 by a lone trooper who chanced upon him returning from a successful cavalry charge. As he lay dying he was asked if he had one final request of the King.

" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow similarly classified Randolph as "the work of Genius" but in the same paragraph referred to it as "a compound of reason and nonsense--drollery and absurdity--wit and nastiness." This rhetoric of tempered praise that surrounded Neal in his life led historians to lament his inability to achieve what they saw as the potential of his genius. Biographer Donald A. Sears classified him as "a writer without a masterpiece" who "lived to be eclipsed by writers of lesser genius but greater control of their talents." Daggett said, "He flashed youthful brilliance.

For the most part, the artist chose the early Victorian fashions—men in peg-top plaid trousers; women in crinolines, angel sleeves, lockets, and hair-nets; little girls in pig-tails and pantalettes. Here were delectable and varied decorations breathing a sort of innocent drollery, what M. de Monvel called "a precious quality of naivete". Her illustrations for Max Müller's "Memories," were stamped with unusual breadth and proportion. Not unnaturally, Ostertag was associated with some of the leading Western architects; with Frank Lloyd Wright, for instance, in a characteristic residence at Buena Park.

In his book, The Old Cape House, parliamentary clerk and writer Ralph Kilpin described Schermbrucker's amusing but very successful style of politics: His wit was not nimble; his success in his new role lay rather in drollery and ponderous loquacity, which, combined with his knowledge of the rules of debate, made him at once a prince of obstructionists, the torment of Speakers and the idol of the gallery. R. Kilpin: The Old Cape House. Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller. p.69. Schermbrucker married Lucy Egan, and had a large number of children.

Like so many of the manuscript collections of the seventeenth century, Harl. MS. 3889 is no doubt a medley of verses by various hands. Adams certainly cannot be the author of the delightful song, ‘Pan, leave piping, the gods have done feasting’ (sometimes called ‘The Green Gown,’ or ‘The Fetching Home of the May’), for the words of that song were composed, according to the best authority, not later than 1635. The capital verses on ‘Oliver Routing the Rump, 1653,’ beginning ‘Will you heare a strange thing never heard of before?’ were first printed in the Merry Drollery, 1661, p.

"Villikins and his Dinah" was a parody of this. It became a major hit in 1853 when sung by actor Frederick RobsonRobson, who played the title-role of a London street singer called Jem Baggs, was famous for his ability to blend intense emotion with farcical humour:'He may almost have been said to have brought pathos and drollery into association closer than had ever been witnessed on the stage.' Joseph Knight, ‘Robson , (Thomas) Frederick (1821–1864)’, rev. Paul Ranger, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 at London's Olympic Theatre The Times, 23 May 1853, p. 4: ‘ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

"It has had many imitators ... but not one of them has rivalled the original, and they have all faded away". The reviewer recommended the book's "quaint drollery, its whimsical satire and delightfully quiet irony". In Canada, Queen's Quarterly magazine's sympathetic reception of the book contrasted with that of the New York Times nearly 30 years previously. It praises the understated but lovable self-portrait of Pooter, and adds that "It is not till the second or third reading—and you are bound to reread it—that the really consummate art of this artless book becomes apparent".

Richard Flexmore [real name Richard Flexmore Geatter] (1824–1860), was a British clown and pantomimist of the Victorian era. Flexmore was the son of Richard Flexmore Geatter, a well-known dancer who died at an early age. Flexmore was born at Kennington in London on 15 September 1824. At the age of eight he commenced his theatrical career at the Victoria Theatre, where his juvenile drollery soon attracted attention. In 1835 he appeared at a small theatre which then existed in Chelsea in a fantastic piece called ‘The Man in the Moon,’ and danced very effectively a burlesque shadow dance.

Twining was an accomplished musician and assisted Charles Burney in writing his remarkable History of Music. His calls on the Burney family in London in 1775 were vividly and affectionately described by Burney's daughter Fanny: "He is a man of learning, very fond of music, and a good performer both on the harpsichord and the violin. He commenced a correspondence with my father upon the publication of his German Tour, which they have kept up with great spirit ever since; for Mr. Twining, besides being deep in musical knowledge, is a man of great humour and drollery."The Early Diary of Frances Burney 1768–1778, ed.

The Paris correspondent of The Era described Ninette as "a pretty, singularly innocent comic opera with tuneful, elegant music", and observed that it seemed possibly a little out of place at the Bouffes-Parisiens, and would have been well suited to the Opéra-Comique. The same critic commented that the plot was not novel but had been ingeniously arranged, and the music, though slightly old-fashioned in style, was "charmingly melodious and elegant", lacking only "a stronger dash of originality and drollery". The Monthly Musical Record felt that the new work "hardly suggests the once-delightful composer of the Cent Vierges, the Fille de Mme. Angot and Giroflé-Girofla".

But it classifies "Hark Hark" as a "Relic", even though it classifies others as "Historical". Halliwell-Phillips does not state what caused him to classify a rhyme either as a "Relic" or as "Historical". But the Historical section is restricted to rhymes that either contain explicit reference to known historical personages, or for which Halliwell-Phillips added a discussion of the rhyme's historical context. The "Historical" rhymes are given at pages 1–6. Three verses of a variant of "Hark Hark", from the Westminster Drollery (1672) Dating the rhyme's origin is confounded by the existence of another that shares the same first line and overall structure.

After several dismal failures in tragic parts, some of them in support of Mrs Siddons, he discovered accidentally that his forte was comedy, especially in the personation of old men and country boys, in which he displayed a fund of drollery and broad humour. An introduction to Charles Kemble led to his appearance at the Haymarket on 10 June 1805 as Sheepface in the Village Lawyer, and his association with this theatre continued with few interruptions until 1830. Paul Pry, 1825. Paul Pry, the most famous of all his impersonations, was first presented on 13 September 1825 and soon became, thanks to his creative genius, a real personage.

Anne Phillips, mother of John and Edward, was the sister of John Milton, the poet. In 1652, John Phillips published a Latin reply to the anonymous attack on Milton entitled Pro Rege et populo anglicano. He appears to have acted as unofficial secretary to Milton, but, unable to obtain regular political employment, and (like his brother) chafing against the discipline he was under, he published in 1655, a bitter attack on Puritanism titled a Satyr against Hypocrites (1655). In 1656, he was summoned before the privy council for his share in a book of licentious poems, Sportive Wit, which was suppressed by the authorities, but almost immediately replaced by a similar collection, Wit and Drollery.

Easy Aces is an American serial radio comedy (1930–1945). It was trademarked by the low-keyed drollery of creator and writer Goodman Ace and his wife, Jane, as an urbane, put-upon realtor and his malaprop-prone wife. A 15-minute program, airing as often as five times a week, Easy Aces wasn't quite the ratings smash that such concurrent 15-minute serial comedies as Amos 'n' Andy, The Goldbergs, Lum and Abner, or Vic and Sade were. But its unobtrusive, conversational, and clever style, and the cheerful absurdism of its storylines, built a loyal enough audience of listeners and critics alike to keep it on the air for 15 years.

Critical reception for the film was generally negative, with L'espresso calling the film "trash" and MDZ Online commenting that the film was of such poor quality that it had the potential to become a cult classic. Film critic Marco Giusti described the film as "supertrash", "more stupid than funny" and a film in which the best actor probably is Jo, the chicken owned by Calà. According to film critic Paolo Mereghetti the film fails almost entirely to raise a smile and the English version of the film, with Calà self-dubbing himself, is a must for trash-lovers. According to author Massimo Bertarelli, the film is just made of "exasperating drollery and depressing sloppiness".

While witch trials had begun to fade out across much of Europe by the mid-17th century, they continued on the fringes of Europe and in the American Colonies. The events in 1692/1693 in Salem became a brief outburst of a sort of hysteria in the New World, while the practice was already waning in most of Europe. In 1668, in Against Modern Sadducism,Full title: A blow at modern Sadducism in some philosophical considerations about witchcraft. To which is added, the relation of the fam'd disturbance by the drummer, in the house of Mr. John Mompesson, with some reflections on drollery and atheisme Joseph Glanvill claimed that he could prove the existence of witches and ghosts of the supernatural realm.

He claimed that > there is not a single incident in the novel which is borrowed from his real > circumstances except the fact that he resided in an old house near a > flourishing seaport, and that the Author chanced to witness a scene betwixt > him and the female proprietor of a stage coach, very similar to that which > commences the history of The Antiquary. An excellent temper, with a slight > degree of subacid humour; learning, wit, and drollery, the more piquant that > they were a little marked by the peculiarities of an old bachelor; a > soundness of thought rendered more forcible by an occasional quaintness of > expression, were, the Author avers, the only qualities in which the creature > of his imagination resembled his benevolent and excellent old friend. George Gleig, one of Scott's early biographers, was certain that another model for Oldbuck was a Highlander called John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, whom Scott knew for many years.

With their own show revamped to a sitcom, bandleader-comedian Harris and singer- actress Faye played themselves, raising two precocious children in slightly zany situations, mostly involving Harris's band guitarist Frank Remley (Elliott Lewis), obnoxious delivery boy Julius Abruzzio (Walter Tetley, familiar as nephew Leroy on The Great Gildersleeve), Robert North as Faye's fictitious deadbeat brother, Willie, and sponsor's representative Mr. Scott (Gale Gordon), and usually involving bumbling, malapropping Harris needing to be rescued by Faye. The Harrises' two daughters were played on radio by Jeanine Roose and Anne Whitfield; written mostly by Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat, the show stayed on NBC radio as a fixture until 1954. Faye's singing ballads and swing numbers in her honeyed contralto voice was a regular highlight of the show as was her knack for tart one-liners equal to her husband's. The show's running gags also included references to Alice's wealth from her film career ("I'm only trying to protect the wife of the money I love" was a typical Harris drollery) and occasional barbs by Faye aimed at her rift with Zanuck, usually referencing Fallen Angel.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times felt the "charming" Olyphant did "a wonderful job" when imitating other characters but had "a harder time finding a convincing style for the running narrative." Howard Kissell of The New York Daily News remarked that he delivered "all the drollery with a perfect deadpan and a twinkle" while David Patrick Stearns of USA Today described him as "an excellent young actor who successfully projects the world-weariness of a young 20-something who slowly evolves into somebody who just might believe in Christmas." Olyphant made his feature film debut in The First Wives Club (1996) as an eager young director who attempts to cast Elise Elliot (Goldie Hawn) – who thinks she will be playing the leading lady – in the role of the elderly mother. Airing on the same day of that film's release, he made his television debut in the pilot of the CBS spy series Mr. & Mrs. Smith. In 1997, Olyphant made a guest appearance as Officer Brett Farraday in three episodes of the ABC police drama High Incident and returned to New York's Playwrights Horizons to play a supporting role in Plunge.