| 11. | It's entertainment all the way as Saki parlays Wodehousian drollery with O . Henry trickery.
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| 12. | He scales up the passion in Housman's scholarly fervor and the acid in his drollery.
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| 13. | In this piece his knack for mimicking inflated, academic and archaic pronouncements attains the zenith of drollery.
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| 14. | Ms . Gaffney and Ms . Siegfried bring dead-on drollery and restraint to their various incarnations.
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| 15. | Australia, one of the most eccentric places on Earth, seems tailor-made for his drollery.
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| 16. | Meanwhile, Whitehead is up to his drollery again, making the verbal nattering and the physical floundering endurable.
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| 17. | Indeed, Mr . M .'s way of getting even with the world appears to be drollery.
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| 18. | This strange and fascinating book, filled with drollery and horror, exhibits the outer limits of historical condensation.
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| 19. | Which would not be such an unfunny premise if it were explored with a trace of drollery or originality.
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| 20. | The reviewer recommended the book's " quaint drollery, its whimsical satire and delightfully quiet irony ".
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