Sentences with word «drollery»

A nutty Norwegian mashup of drollery, myth and jolts to the nervous system, Thale does a deft dance between grossout comedy and horror fantasy.

Despite his disarming drollery, Bellow has also accepted the role of agonist, and the Nobel committee rightly pointed out his «subtle analysis of contemporary culture.»

The picture relentlessly picks up speed, zooming from drollery to anarchy to complete — albeit brilliantly controlled — comic chaos, and before you know it, you're airborne (even if, strictly speaking, you're still in the sewer), carried aloft on the wings of leeches.

He is likable, but never seems to be using us for our favor when the mood for drollery overtakes him.

Carey's film makes good use of Plaza's eye - rolling drollery and ability to cut through, or reinvent clichés.

Cake follows the formulaic arc of catharsis and healing too closely to be considered a major film, but its careful balance of humor and anguish, its sense of mirthless drollery, isn't something you see every day.

Anderson's ninth film, the stop - motion - animation comedy for grownups Isle of Dogs, contains all his trademarks: the absurd dialogue delivered with absolute deadpan; the characters positioned alone at the exact center of the screen staring into the camera; the meticulous production design; the featherweight drollery.

Shirley Henderson and Dylan Moran offer fleeting but lovably biting comic support; Ian Hart and purposely self - conscious star Gillian Anderson provide dry drollery.

Franzen follows Freedom (2010) with Purity, a novel in which his signature qualities converge in a new, commanding fluidity, from his inquiry into damaged families to his awed respect for nature, brainy drollery, and precise, resonant detail.

Lynch is pretty good at this kind of drollery, and he's not the only actor here who registers strongly in a smaller role: Others include Ron Livingston as a lawyer; Ed Begley Jr. as the doctor who examines Lucky after a mysterious fall; and Tom Skerritt as a veteran who swaps World War II stories with Lucky.

Despite his disarming drollery, Saul Bellow has also accepted the role of agonist.

Behind the drollery is a vein of sadness, perhaps even of terror.

There's also some drollery, as carefully threaded as the secret messages Woodcock sews into his dresses like a boy scout earning a merit badge for philosophy.

Now I wonder how much of «Shorty's» humor derived from director Barry Sonnenfeld's drollery and how much of «Sight's» gritty romantic allure stemmed from director Steven Soderbergh's originality and elegance.

There are quite a few scenes involving a studio - invented romance between dopey cowboy star Hobie (Alden Ehrenreich) and perky Carmen Miranda look - alike Carlotta (Veronica Osorio) that are utterly mystifying in their total lack of chemistry or drollery or subtext.

The drollery is in the detail, which sometimes comes so fast it's gone before you have time to chortle.

Spurious narratives emerge through the plastering of vivid and degenerated images, pop and profundity, internet discourses and the drollery of internal monologue.