(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.
Mirth
Definition:
(n.) Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
(n.) That which causes merriment.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the young Sontag could barely contain her mirth: "I just couldn't stop laughing," she says.
(2) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
(3) Proving that laughter is infectious – and the best antidote – British actor Emma Watson showed Twitter solidarity with thousands of women who have posted mirthful pictures of themselves in defiance of a call by a Turkish politician for women to stop laughing in public.
(4) This was greeted with mirth in the courtroom but he was charged with insulting the president, an offence punishable by up to a year in prison.
(5) That, at least, is what many people have insisted from antiquity on – while prompting at the same time all kinds of counter-claims that other species share our expression of mirth (monkeys and, most recently, rats being the most common candidates, though there is one suggestion, in an ancient Jewish commentary, that for some reason Aristotle thought herons were laughers too).
(6) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
(7) Provoking MPs' schoolboy mirth at the hint of an innuendo to the female MP, the prime minister joked: "Maybe I should start all over again."
(8) My Twitter stream, largely metropolitan, explodes with mirth: this’ll take Farage down a peg or two!
(9) SEE YOU IN COURT There was much mirth on Twitter when judges in the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld a temporary restraining order on Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban on arrivals from seven Muslim-majority countries.
(10) An unfortunate camera angle left pundit Glenn Hoddle's tight trousers in full view, leading to endless mirth on Twitter.
(11) Herman Van Rompuy, a man whose very name seems to provoke mirth in anglocentric circles, is known for composing the occasional haiku .
(12) Humor measures assessed appreciation (including mirth, subjective ratings, and response sets), comprehension, and production, while competence measures included teacher ratings of classroom behavior, peer reputation, and achievement.
(13) He has a soft, almost hushed voice, glasses that press down on the tops of his ears, making them flop over like wings, and a frequent, mirthful smile.
(14) The news of Ramos’s remarks sparked mirth amongst the cybersecurity community, who began poking their own holes in the claims.
(15) The fact that this particular man has long been characterised as tremendously powerful only adds to the mirth.
(16) It is difficult to measure the effect of laughter and mirth on changing one's mindset, but in 12 months not a single instance of death of a child occurred resulting from diarrhea or malnutrition.
(17) A different order of difficulty across items, and a different profile of "mirth" responses to the items did, however, correlate with site of lesion.
(18) Gallingly, the elevation has also exposed him to the mirth of his old friend Richard Rogers , whose own life peerage he had previously enjoyed teasing.
(19) As Claudius said in Hamlet: “With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.” Weddings, to me, feel heavy with expectation, pregnant with emotion, saturated with hope, fear and hard-to-keep promises.
(20) To detect changes in these components during a mirthful laughter experience, the authors studied 10 healthy male subjects.