Sentences with word «jollity»

When West Ham first moved to the tax payers stadium, there was quite a bit of jollity among the supporters, I felt.

Is fear qualitatively different from jollity, from bravado, from the heart flutters induced by romance?

Some years ago a roistering group of boys, on jollity bent, passed the chapel at the University of Chicago, and one of them shouted, «Let's look in!»

There's no forced jollity either.

(Much jollity last week when one poll put the Lib Dems on nine per cent, which matches their proportion of MPs.)

Charles Durning appears as a gubernatorial candidate with the populist jollity of Huey Long, and the story strands meet and separate as if the movie is happening mostly by chance and good luck — a nice feeling sometimes, although not one that inspires confidence that the narrative train has an engine.

Whether or not this movie sets off a new penguin craze, it will probably sell some penguin merchandise and provide about 90 minutes of tolerable jollity.

The dialogue in xXx: Return of Xander Cage varies from vaguely pathetic to amusingly lame — but Vin Diesel's description of his team members also gives a sense of delightful jollity.

Fiji caught the reference, but she wasn't in the mood for jollity.

The idea of making money in unexpected ways while while sticking it to The Man fills me with jollity & vim.

If jollity's not your thing, by the way, head to the Lisson Gallery, where Santiago Serra's 3 - D gridded Impenetrable Structure fills the space with razor wire...

I remember an old Sam Johnson statement that the jollity of the clergy much displeased him.

I sense their brokenness, behind the smiles and jollity.

There were laughter and jollity on all sides.

Perhaps the feelgood film of the year, its premise of an astronaut stranded alone on a hostile planet wouldn't seem to lend itself easily to jollity.

William Shakespeare's works always have a tint of jollity to them, the tragedies too, but this artistic reworking is thoroughly humorless.