Sentences with phrase «with jocularity»

Used by Spanish speakers when one has forgotten a particular word, the slang term chingadera inflects the practices on display here with jocularity, framing the work in a discourse of the not yet known.

Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.»

Not exact matches

And, third, I added with a tinge of jocularity, if Christians ever got together that much, they'd be leaving something out, and I'd want to be among the first protestants, the first sectarians.

Although the tournaments are played with fun and jocularity, they also serve the need to relive the memories, a need that players such as Helm and Gee admitted was hard to explain to non-Hoosiers.

«Fun with Seth» (2:28) takes us behind the scenes of the mo - cap filming for some jocularity, mostly from Seth Green.

I would rather have seen Barnyard as an animated short, much in the vein of Oedekerk's popular «Thumb» series, with animals doing their best to hide their jocularity and mirth - making from the unsuspecting eyes of humans.

Not so here, courtesy of the mess of a screenplay — filled with forced jocularity and expositional dialogue — and deeply flawed central performances.

There will be talk of thesis statements and topic sentences, extended examples versus multiple examples, effective ways of introducing and concluding essays — with, most likely, some jocularity involved.