Sentences with word «jesting»

I am jesting of course, but do you know what would happen if somebody started an abortion clinic for puppies and kittens?

«It's too early to talk about how benefits and compensation may synch up,» Mackey said of the topic, after jesting that Whole Foods employees will get free Amazon devices on merger day.

Just jesting.

We could go with something like «forced attendance at vacation bible school» but this of course is merely jesting.

Eph 5:4 - 6 «and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

It is quite useless to talk about profane jesting.

So much so, that my family historically referred to me as «the cow» (seriously) because I was always drinking milk (which, I should clarify was said all in good family jesting and not in a derogatory way).

An angry Governor Paterson, still fuming after a judge blocked him from furloughing state workers in an attempt to save the state's budget, put a risky (if jesting) offer on the table.

Fun jousting and jesting with the popular sword and sorcery quest motif, with plenty of made for DVD (press «replay topless babes») moments.

It is summarised by the show - stealing Lars von Trier (interviewed before his vow of silence) who, with all his irreverent jesting, portrays his relationship to Bergman as that to a father figure.

Nae jesting!

I jest of course but knowing the train prices I'm not jesting as much as you and I would like.

As one who is a Fool on a semi-professional basis year round, this is an official holiday for me in my puckishly jesting capacity.

St. Bernard argued that Paul's directive ruled out not only lewd or extravagant jokes but jesting of any kind.

Like the pundits of MSNBC or Fox News, late - night comics may be jesting to the converted.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and given the massive success of «Shark Tank,» it's obvious that the jesting is all in good fun.

But the corrections would come in a jesting, loving way from friends who knew you shared the sense that you could do better.

Even Lafcadio Hearn, far away from religion though he was, said, «I think, all jesting aside, could I create something I felt to be sublime, I should feel also that the Unknowable had selected me for a mouthpiece, for a medium of utterance... and I should know the pride of a prophet who has seen the face of God.»

All jesting is in its nature profane, in the sense that it must be the sudden realization that something which thinks itself solemn is not so very solemn after all.

Catholic polemicists implied that there was excessive womanizing in Protestant Wittenberg and that Luther was drinking and jesting to the moment of his death.

I'm jesting, but that would be quite a circus.

Church leaders took seriously Paul's warning in Ephesians 5:4 about engaging in «silly» talk (which the King James Version translates as «jesting»).

I understand you may be jesting, but if you actually believe God interacts with you directly, then please seek some help.

Columnist John Adams of the Knoxville News - Sentinel revealed that he had received $ 120 in contributions to his jesting Keep Heath Fund.

Of course I'm jesting, but he was one of their best players when we lined up against them in Paris for the reverse of this fixture, so him being missing will be a bit of a blow for them.

The characters» detachment permeates the tone of the entire movie under the direction of Ruben Fleischer, who, along with screenwriter Michael Diliberti, has a difficult time not reveling in the laid - back jesting of this rogue's gallery of a cast of characters.

Teller manages to slide in the only few chuckles but even his jesting persona is overcast with a torrent of sleaze, the main ingredient this film has served up.

The jesting began after a number of students from the Western North Carolina county emailed lawmakers about legislation affecting the state's charter schools and the funding they get from traditional public schools.

Of course, that doesn't stand as a confirmation, seeing as Lockheimer could have just been jesting.

Upon reflection, I realized that her jesting about my relationship prowess was surprisingly insightful.