Sentences with phrase «of much merriment»

With the exception of Lovitz, all of those actors bring a lot of themselves to their parts and one imagines the recording studio was a site of much merriment, just as one of Sandler's Hawaii or New England film shoots so clearly are.

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I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Their chosen quote, and I hope you can read it with as much incredulous merriment as I did, «When the intellectual authors of the modern right created its doctrines in the 1950s, they drew on nineteenth - century political thought, borrowing explicitly from the great apologists for slavery, above all, the intellectually fierce South Carolinian John C. Calhoun.»

The content offers merriment comparable to set - top games of yore without requiring as much attention or commitment.

The merriment I feel when playing as Pikachu and brawling with decades of Nintendo history with friends hasn't worn off after all these years, and despite the fact that I don't care for much that Nintendo does these days, watching their giant roster of characters clash still fills me with nostalgic glee that only Smash Bros. can.

We're big fans of Hitman here at Dealspwn, so news of the fifth edition - Absolution - was greeted with so much merriment and cheer we had to restrain ourselves from giving each other a buzz - cut in honor of the announcement.