| The air was full of good-natured chaff and badinage between persons who had never seen each other before and never expected to again. |
|
| And there's only so much waspish, scintillating badinage with Stereophonics one can take. |
|
| It was through evening storytelling and breakfast badinage with these sisters that Macaulay's mature historical vision emerged. |
|
| On April 20 whilst waiting in the town hall with dignitaries and other councillors prior to the induction some banter and badinage took place. |
|
| One emerges having had a good time even if it is the private pain one remembers more than the cerebral badinage. |
|
| It is a laddish, locker-room badinage that I remember with indulgent nostalgia from my days playing college rugby. |
|
| Indeed the crime and its circumstances are relegated much of the time in favour of sequences of badinage within chambers, past and present. |
|
| The Duke was sure glad that there were no womenfolk around to hear this rough badinage. |
|
| Her novels are people-centred, using anecdote and badinage, and she was early inspired by E. Welty. |
|
| After an interlude of witty badinage, Ginger departs, and Fred sprinkles sand on the floor of Horace's suite and dances her to sleep. |
|
| Much of the badinage was about how to configure a cable network that can be flexibly and gradually expanded enough to offer each new service as consumers begin to demand it. |
|
| Between the two of them, they keep up a relentless barrage of badinage. |
|
| Trollope, especially at school, must have put up with much badinage. |
|
| Even tamer badinage in this country can, to a foreign ear, sound like enmity. |
|
| The members of this group exercise considerable humor and badinage in dealing with each other, but they also pay close attention to maintaining standards. |
|
| The option to close commenting after the cut-off would be lower maintenance, but then we'd lose such witty badinage as evidenced by my post on big, strong boys. |
|
| Amid jokes and badinage, the rehearsal started with Jimi Hendirx's Purple Haze and carried on with the entire Le Quattro Stagioni almost without interruption. |
|
| Rice was renowned for an act that included singing, dancing, witty badinage with the audience, feats of strength, trick riding, and exhibitions of trained wild animals. |
|
| Without any possible confusion Harald Wolff's artistic research is recognizable: he mixes and associates vague silhouettes in a light badinage, « gestic » of chromatic lines and violence of drawings. |
|
| Cardboard's opener sees Sommer discussing the finer points of gaming with Modern Family star Ty Burrell, and the pair's easy badinage does a good job of masking the fact that a podcast about board games is a pretty daft idea. |
|
|
|
| A round stone polished by our rivers, badinage, a merry olfactive feast. |
|
| The patrol stops from time to time as its leader, a fresh-faced corporal from Chicago, engages passers-by, via Dave, the newly coiffed interpreter from Baghdad, in amiably stilted badinage. |
|
