From the dreamy, autotuned electronica of the glitchy but beautiful How To Draw to the spoken word
drollery of The Man Who Married A Robot, this is a clever and considered masterclass.
Yamada conducted a lithe performance of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales, capturing some of the composer's Gallic
drollery, but the profile of some dances could have been sharper, and a strong, viscerally punchy La Valse.
What a
drollery? And so-called mighty persons celebrate this
drollery.
The occasion was not entirely lacking in
drollery, however unintended.
"Her diaries recount this will to power with caustic
drollery and dash, at least in their early pages.
Yet somehow the activism always gets crowded out by all that winsome, self-effacing Yorkshire
drollery. And it doesn't help his cause that in the diary entries (2005-15), which take up over half this book, he is forever rooting out old churches like a latter-day Betjeman, munching on sandwiches and waxing lugubrious over unspoilt rood screens.
IT'S testament to Simon Callow's delivery, that a rant about his ongoing dispute with baristas who struggle with his coffee order, is more masterclass in
drollery, than mundane moan.
PICK OF THE WEEK THE REBEL, Gold, Wednesday, 10pm IT'S TESTAMENT To Simon Callow's delivery, that a rant about his ongoing dispute with baristas who struggle with his coffee order, is more masterclass in
drollery, than mundane moan.
IT'S TESTAMENT To T Simon Callow's delivery, that a rant about his ongoing dispute with baristas who struggle with his coffee order, is more masterclass in
drollery, than mundane moan.
It is the comic observance without self-indulgence, the guileless playing and the directorial wit and comic
drollery, that give this gentle comedy its risible effects.
But Fort Buchanan's consistent
drollery is also a product of the movie's dialogue, which was created in a highly unconventional way.
As to how you get to where you get, it is quite bleak but there are moments of
drollery. Why'd you decide to do it?
Only after the second production, which was mounted sometime in June 1672, were the prologue and the epilogue to The Parson's Wedding printed as part of a pamphlet entitled the Covent Garden
Drollery, or A colection [sic] of all the choice songs, poems, prologues and epilogues, (sung and spoken at courts and theatres) never in print before.
He has become our fimetarious culture's most astute observer, a supremely capable artist who, heeding modernity's accelerated call, engaged primarily in self-referential
drollery.
This French text's appearance in numerous editions makes it "readily available after the early 1660's" (Quaintance 196) and thus leads to the translations we find by Behn as well as the anonymous "Lost Opportunity" piece in Wit and
Drollery. There are at least twelve copies of the Cantenac poem dating from c.
