(1) That merriment is not just tankards and quaintness and mimsy Morris dancing, but a witty, angry and tender fire at the centre of Englishness.
(2) Christmas is a time for joy, celebration and bringing together family and friends to share this merriment.
(3) They are the only couple from the state dinner to get their picture on the front page of the Washington Post, and they were the source of a mix of merriment at their daring and alarmist speculation on the morning television shows about what would have happened if they had been Islamist extremists.
(4) For a long time, for me, one of the best things about the new year and Christmas was that it was a time for socially acceptable drunkenness, an occasion when even falling-over-in-the-street-drunkenness would be tolerated in the name of festive merriment.
(5) Back in 1776, the sage of Kirkcaldy noted: "People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
(6) The central characters of the show entitled "Health and Merriment" were: the housewife Larimunda, the druggist Salim, and the clowns Banziero, Xulex, and Primentinha.
(7) If you are visiting Denmark around 23-24 June, you are likely to be invited to gather round a huge beach bonfire with much drinking, eating, singing and merriment.
(8) A young couple, screeching with merriment, went past on their way to a bar or nightclub.
(9) I have no idea what "real sex" is and even less after reading the Mumsnet thread of the bedside 'penis beaker' (a dunking cup for hygiene purposes that has caused much merriment online ).
(10) Not just to remember how to pronounce "caxirola", but for general merriment.
(11) Dennis was beloved by his friends for his originality as a poet, his acuity as a critic, his probity and courage and merriment as a man.
(12) The effect is of a party recently ended, of a room still ringing with merriment, laughter and dancing.
(13) This tour of royal duty presumably produced the desired effect – positive media reporting – no doubt resulting in much merriment among the corridors of the royal household.
(14) Along with the origins on the South Bank, the merriment at the fact that funds are so tight, Walker often has to take the bus … It all suggests difference of the wrong kind: that the life experiences of Mayer, Toksvig and Walker may be alienatingly divergent from the people they want to reach.
(15) In the end, our futile midwinter merriment comes from the heart.
(16) It took Bryan Cranston four nominations to finally nab best actor, drama, for his role as the teacher-turned-druglord Walter White; on collecting his award, Cranston drily suggested that the exposure would bring the show's "mirth and merriment" to the world.
(17) After 2000, they are almost always funny, extended merriment concerning trousers with elasticated waistbands and grumpiness about modern music.
(18) Even opposition MPs realised today that the launch of IDS's Cunning Plan was not a day for merriment.
(19) But it’s not only musical merriment that revs up the crowds at its flagship London night at Koko: Rowley swoops in on new cabaret talent, too.
Reverie
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Revery
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
(2) After Theresa May stunned the country out of its Easter reverie with her announcement on Tuesday , many wondered just how this famously cautious politician had chosen such a dramatic course.
(3) The narrator interrupts her reverie to provide a calculation of how long a 6ft falling body would take to cross a window space 8ft tall.
(4) It was a good one to get.” It got much worse for Arsenal as they started the second half as if in a distant reverie.
(5) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
(6) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
(7) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
(8) Photograph: Michael Gibson "So, anyway," Farrell whispers, breaking my reverie, "things have changed.
(9) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
(10) Sounded pretty good to me, but Abts's introspective, complex little paintings have a strange and mesmerising sense of absorption and contemplative reverie.
(11) But in CSKA's case, maybe it should be 'You are are at your most vulnerabe just after you score, and then again just after you concede'," reckons Sam Abrahams, whose name I misread as Sam Adams, sending me into a brief but powerful reverie about beer.
(12) Reverie, dreams, visions, the dark woods of somnolent confusion – all these are beautifully evoked in Dante's tour from hell to heaven, The Divine Comedy .
(13) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
(14) Ostensibly a straightforward account of Rousseau's exiled wanderings, it begins with his first glimpse, in 1965, of the Ile Saint Pierre in Switzerland, where Rousseau spent the first period of his stateless exile, and where he claimed – in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker – that he was happier than he had been anywhere else.
(15) In Heart, he reveals that in the suspended animation of heart transplant surgery – the closest to death one can come – his reverie consisted not of any moral reckoning or even meditation on the life he'd lived, but a dream about living "in Italy, north of Rome, about 40 or 50 miles north of Rome, a nice little village, drinking good Italian wine and eating good Italian food.
(16) The reverie, an apparently random series of events occurring in the analyst's consciousness when his attention is evenly suspended, is examined through the expansion of one of its elements, a single word-association.
(17) Crime dramas,” she says, with a nonchalant shrug, “are just what people want.” She says how much she loved Juliet Bravo and we both disappear into a feminist nostalgia reverie.
(18) He needs little prompting to go off into a reverie about having the biggest actors, politicians and celebrities of the age opposite him on successive nights, regularly making headlines.
(19) In Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino, the writer's alter ego stands in line in Parisian food shops gazing at cheese and jars of goose fat, writing in his notebook while drifting so far into reverie that the serving staff have to rouse him when it is his turn: "Monsieur!
(20) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.