How To Use jocosity In A Sentence
- He was an odd mixture of awkwardness and complacency, a desire to be courteous struggling with a desire to show his independence; he had no ease of manner, no bonhomie, but a gruff and ugly kind of jocosity, which I am sure was not really natural to him, but was his protest against the possibility of my considering him to be shy. The Silent Isle
- Record of a Journey to the West is a tragic story written in the appearance of a comedy by the author and it is a jocosity depiction of survival consciousness.
- In this letter there is a tone of jocosity with reference to the victim, which filled me with horror. The Commission in Lunacy
- His features were not naturally intended to wear a smiling aspect, but he was in general rather given to professional jocosity. Oliver Twist
- It had, of course, no truth in it whatsoever, and I more than once confessed publicly that it was only a jocosity … Scarcely a month goes by that I do not find the substance of it reprinted, not as foolishness but as fact, and not only in newspapers but in official documents and other works of the highest pretensions. August « 2008 « Isegoria
- I mean not the sad jocosity of P.O.M.216 passages or the mere callender of slaughter. A Life in Letters
- Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'. 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
- Sununu himself was passing the whole thing off with heavy jocosity. The 'Air Sununu' Flap
- Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'. 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'