July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year. |
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This incident encapsulated the nature of the jocular Scotsman's influential ministry. |
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Early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse are known as Fescennine verses. |
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It takes talent to transform a joke into a jocular jewel and the cast of the Mad Mission movies succeeds time and time again. |
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They show no signs of mistreatment and even have a jocular relationship with the two guards. |
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While jocular and jovial most of the time, these two titans can grow a bit wearisome with their constant credit taking. |
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Dublin had just demolished Donegal and he was in particularly jocular mood. |
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Harmless jokes or jocular winking at the workplace can lead to activation of such guidelines. |
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A relaxed Mr Kennedy did not sparkle, but remained jocular as he parried friendly questions. |
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It is customary in the north of Ireland to refer, in a jocular way, to water as Adam's ale. |
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Witty and polished, the film takes a jocular view of the characters and their failings but doesn't judge events. |
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Like previous national meetings, the NAS conference proceeded in a mostly serious, yet occasionally jocular mood. |
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Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years. |
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A jocular sort, but with a heart as empty as a pig trough waiting for slops. |
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Jack was blessed with a sunny, jocular disposition and was never rushed, making time for everyone. |
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A jocular Englishman, Terry has been in New Zealand for 12 years, organising tours of the best dive spots for visiting Poms. |
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And the president's habit of roughing people up with jocular derision doesn't work as well when the trappings of power aren't all around him. |
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The discussion was fast paced and jocular, with nearly all of the jokes at the expense of IMX's desperate competitors. |
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He had a jocular way of telling his point of view and that often had the Senate in stitches. |
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For one significant reason, the jocular Thomson can afford not to be too downbeat about the Fifers' 8-1 mauling on their own patch last month. |
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Two terribly eager young men were dueling with megaphones, exchanging jocular insults across the concourse. |
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Like many a fond father he was relaxed, expansive and jocular. |
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His disarming amiability and jocular charm were irresistible, but his art was immediately compelling on its own terms, and largely responsible for fueling all the interest. |
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Forms of baby talk are also used in jocular, intimate conversation. |
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When confronted by a spectacularly successful man who is also an unmistakably good man, most of us turn cynical or jocular. |
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He does it in a jocular way but underlying it is sort of a sense that we are different out there. |
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Just a jocular article in 1995, in which such expressions were quoted and there was an appraisal of the political situation. |
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Behind his steely façade, Shehata possesses a jocular personality, according to star striker Mohamed Zidan. |
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When he ran into Sperling at a congressional dinner at the White House a couple of weeks later, the encounter was jocular. |
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You'll be splenetic and over-heated and I'll be jocular and whimsical. |
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Where Simmons is jocular in a kind of clever fratboy way, Lund is more refined in his language and more robust in his indignation. |
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A vivacious woman with a jocular disposition, Irwin made a name for herself acting in burlesques, musical revues and straight plays on Broadway, often appearing in the role of a widow. |
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That jocular little ceremony performed at Rupertswood country house by its chatelaine, Lady Janet Clarke, led directly to the birth of the greatest of all sporting contests. |
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From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular. |
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In furtherance of their jocular scheme, they telephoned a third language station and encountered the station's voice mail recorded message, part of which was in Cantonese. |
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I consider that book to be a rather popular book, a rather jocular and amusing book, but that is where those ideas have been crystallized and picked up by the court. |
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On that jocular note, we hit Hargeisa's streets. |
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They were reinforced in this view by Alastair's jocular banter, his easy resort to mimicry and his habit of taking the Monday morning editorial meeting with a gin and tonic in his hand. |
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The students at right, seated in the school cafeteria, are engaging in a typical year-end ritual, writing and signing comments-sometimes jocular, sometimes sentimental-in each other's copy of the school yearbook. |
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To the contrary, however, the effect of these borborygmic paintings was and is blithely jocular. |
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By being honest he also hopes to persuade South Africans that AIDS is a normal disease. Despite the jocular names, many people still consider AIDS to be shameful. |
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Thanks to all of you who did just that, and who were able to combine consideration of some of the globe's most pressing problems with zestful, and at times, jocular enthusiasm. |
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Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down. |
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Willem de Wit, the head of psychogeriatrics and an athletic, pleasant man with a ready smile and a jocular way with staff, showed me about the facility. |
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More than 20 of the 150 potential jocular names in the website's database have now been registered with Companies House including Bivium, Libero and Ualeo. |
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His jocular insolence becomes the motor of efficient salvational action. |
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