(1) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
(2) It's hard to think of a musician who better represents the " gringo " vision of carefree, swinging 1960s Rio than Jorge Ben Jor, who back then wrote a slew of jazzy, swinging sambas and bossas, many of which are now considered Brazilian standards.
(3) His objections weren't that Gaye's new music was too radical, but that it sounded "jazzy" and "old".
(4) Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent of orange sticks between the classical law courts and the baroque bell tower.
(5) I disagree: Baldwin is taking sides and backing Luke – the boozy, jazzy, truthful husband.
(6) 1 Merchant Square Location: Paddington Basin | Floors: 42 | Height: 140m | Architect: Robin Partington | Status: approved | Use: residential and hotel 1 Merchant Square Already home to a motley collection of brash waterside blocks, all competing for attention with their jazzy cladding, Paddington Basin will soon be joined by Westminster's first skyscraper, in the form of this shiny blue cucumber.
(7) The first single, Slow Slow, features a tumble of words over cool jazzy guitar chords, video game bleeps, nimble bass and splashy drums, plus a sample of Run DMC circa Peter Piper.
(8) Sponsored by the athletes' village developer, Lend Lease, it is now run by the Harris Federation, the educational charity of Carpetright millionaire Lord Harris (those expecting jazzy floors will be disappointed: the school favours grey carpet tiles throughout).
(9) In fact, the first Grammy for Best Rap Performance ever given out went to DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince (you may know him as Will Smith) for their happy-go-lucky fun lyrics more than 20 years ago.
(10) Perhaps she relates to the line in the play where the jazzy husband says: "Music what you got to do, if you got to do it."
(11) Part of this latter approach applies to the music he booked (rising electro-pop stars, indie rock bands, weird outré rappers) and the in-house band – The Roots, a jazzy, innovative hip-hop band – itself.
(12) To mark the new programme, which goes out between 11am and 1pm, there are some jazzy, slinky jingles and a revised acronym for the Togs.
(13) She still harbours musical ambitions, playing the drums and guitar, although getting to the bottom of exactly what her music might sound like proves a bit of a struggle: "It's all very … it's usually quite jazzy, quite soulful ... My voice is very husky.
(14) Bold direction, jazzy score, sprinkling of cinematic in-jokes?
(15) How do you feel about the increasingly jazzy flourishes some umpires use to signal boundaries?
(16) The film is so-so, despite its blue-chip cast (Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo), the director far more interested in jazzy effects than the actors.
(17) Well, maybe it's because my first rap album was the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff's He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper , but I've never had any prejudice against comedy hip-hop.
(18) "Obviously," I say, "some people will go, 'It used to be a pirate, what have they done to the station' and start banging on about Jazzie B and stuff ..." It's going badly again.
(19) This is a fab stealth-puzzler with jazzy music and a film noir atmosphere, as you creep around enemies over 120 levels.
(20) It’s interesting that he chose to go in a jazzy direction.
Jocund
Definition:
() Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
(adv.) Merrily; cheerfully.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the Sun's marketing site, where they address the people who really matter to them, their corporate partners, they eschew the colloquial jocundity, where stars romp in love-nests and drop tots, here the silvery nomenclature of commerce reigns, the Sun's true tongue.
(2) She's a less jocund Heather Mills dressed for Whitby Goth Weekend, the sort of mate's new girlfriend you'd rather be bummed ragged by a White Walker than let on your pub quiz team.