(1) The failure to bring Biggs home and the subsequent jollity that the "slip-up" afforded the media continued to rankle.
(2) If festive jollity has been in short supply in the Hughes household, it was completely absent from the dugout and the deposed manager absented himself from the press conference afterwards.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury.
(4) How much of her jollity and relative straightforwardness is an act?
(5) He said the BBC's intention on the Sunday of the jubilee weekend, the day of the river pageant, had been to "broaden the range of voices and having some fun and games and jollity as well".
(6) I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
(7) "What I would say is we were trying to simultaneously reflect both the pomp and circumstance, the history and the heritage, but also particularly the Sunday was intended as the people's element of this, which meant we were absolutely broadening the range of voices and having some fun and games and jollity as well."
(8) But beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury.
(9) But 99% of the time, the balance between grit and jollity was struck perfectly.
(10) At the moment cheerleaders The Crystals are keeping the crowd entertained, along with their partner in pre-match jollity, Kayla the eagle.
(11) So it shouldn’t be jollity all the way in Dominic Hill’s revival, but expect the ghosts to be genuinely spooky and Ebenezer Scrooge to be particularly miserly.
Jolly
Definition:
(superl.) Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.
(superl.) Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety.
(superl.) Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant.
Example Sentences:
(1) And he enjoyed holding court to pretty girls and jolly lads at the Academy Club, a bohemian joint he founded next to his office.
(2) 1.37am BST Cardinals 0 - Dodgers 0, top of 2nd Well Ryu doesn't look nearly as shaky as he did against the Braves, rather, he looks a whole lot like the jolly fellow that went 14-8 with a 3.00 ERA in the regular season.
(3) Spain tells UK not to lose its cool over Gibraltar in Brexit talks Read more Henry seemed like a jolly chap.
(4) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
(5) In another part of the recording, Bloom says, in reference to a ruling from the European court of human rights: "You can torture people to death but you jolly well can't give them a full life sentence because that's against their human rights.
(6) Nick had come armed with previously unpublished details of Liberal Democrat plans for Lords reform and a blueprint for site value rating which Dave had told him was " Jolly interesting, Nick, it really is" before passing it to Andy Coulson.
(7) A few weeks ago, an official from the Cabinet Office gushed on his blog about a jolly exciting trip, a kind of pilgrimage, to Amazon and Google in Seattle and San Francisco.
(8) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
(9) Stressing the jolly side of atheism not only glosses over its harsher truths, it also disguises its unique selling point.
(10) Debbie Jolly of Leicester, said: "Coalition ministers can manage on £145,000 per year plus expenses, but some disabled people have to try and manager on less than £31 a week.
(11) The Palestinian comedy team Watan a Watar have enjoyed huge success with their take on an Isis propaganda video featuring a roadblock and a quiz: incorrect answers mean instant execution but these jolly, bumbling jihadis win points to get them to Paradise.
(12) Given the jolly atmosphere of the holidays, the bartender allowed a dog owner to bring in their animal.
(13) At one level it's very gentle and quite jolly; at another, if continued assiduously, it means they are after you.
(14) One needs to be jolly careful – and it is appropriate in a friendly relationship to be jolly careful about reaching judgements of serious violations of IHL.” The hearings in closed court end on Friday.
(15) Just wide expanses of inoffensive pleasantness so strong that if any of the bloody really jolly nice people on the show were to drop their grins, their overexerted jowls would fall straight into their cake mix.
(16) But does it have much in common with the jolly pre-modern gourmandising recommended this week by David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum?
(17) When her career took off at the age of 10 – a childhood of performing in the living room led to a stint jollying around with Barney the purple dinosaur in the 90s series Barney & Friends – Gomez's mother, Mandy Cornett, became her manager, a relationship Gomez now describes as "like a Gilmore Girls bond, except the dialogue's not as clever".
(18) When he was found guilty of contempt of court last year for claims in his bestselling book, Once a Jolly Hangman , his youngest daughter emailed to ask: "Will they hang you Dad?"
(19) The 18 patients with folic acid deficiency had a significantly higher rate of megaloblasts, binucleate erythropoietic precursors, Howell-Jolly bodies, giant myelocytes, and giant metamyelocytes in bone marrow smears than the remaining 23 patients (P less than 0.05).
(20) But, to be fair, Sally was jolly, plus she was friendless because of the house move of a previous best friend.