drollery

The story, much as usual with this playwright, is set in middle-class suburbia, where misunderstandings and misinterpretations give rise to the kind of drolleries for which Ayckbourn is celebrated and, more to the point, for which he fills theatres up and down the land.

However, because "King's Road" is more interested in its generally offbeat atmosphere and unconnected drolleries rather than character development--which would be odd, since these people's lives are stagnant--the pic struggles to fully maintain audience attention throughout its 105-minute running time.

60, 62, 66), and throws in sundry seemingly autograph lavatorial drolleries worthy of a Carry On film for good measure.

He is the great balloon popper, the enemy of delusion; his enemies speak in bombast, coining fantastical concepts, and he answers with his well-worn little drolleries. As much as he carries with him his own portable fantasia (the girls, the drinks), Bond is an agent not of the British Secret Service but of some deflating reality principle, and in a slight way you hate him for it.

After awhile, Cahill's drolleries evoke few chortles, and his preoccupation with biblical sexcapades arouses suspicion.

Drolleries, collections of songs and light verse, were a primarily royalist genre, popular from the mid 1650s until the 1670s.

Hague's funnies are gentle drolleries, not told very well.

A pleasant half hour can be spent deciphering these visual and verbal drolleries, but once they're unraveled, that's kind of that; their rewards are relatively short-lived.

Thus, in the so-called royalist Drolleries of the 1650s, Mennes and Smith were perceived by a new generation of royalist wits as the trend-setters for a new type of poetry: burlesque, travesty, and satire both deeply sceptical and increasingly political in nature.

Chan, `Drolls, drolleries and mid-seventeenth century dramatic music in England', RMA research chronicle, xv (1979), pp.

The Academy, for instance, was still going strong as late as 1705 (Still further augmented) under the title Windsor Drolleries, while Wits Recreations survived until 1683 under the title Recreations for Ingenious Head-Pieces.