How To Use Jollity In A Sentence
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Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
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Yet it was easy to forget the ballet's dark scary heart amid the jollity of much of the staging.
Times, Sunday Times
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We slept soundly that night, in what was probably the best bedroom of the house, and awoke with a feeling that we were about to enter on a period of some uncommon kind of jollity, which we found to be true when we went down to get breakfast.
Rudder Grange
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All have that characteristic Milhaud lightness and playfulness, that jollity and occasional raucousness.
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Whether you're the warm and fuzzy sort or you're like me, and find enforced jollity a serious downer, it's hard to avoid contemplating hearth and home and the ghosts of Christmas past at this time of year.
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I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly.
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The day was spent in mirththe Lenni-Lenape nation and Jollity the soldiers paradingof the Delaware Valley marching with fife & Drum and Huzzaing as they passd the poles their hats adornd with white blossoms
A Renegade History of the United States
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Oh dear, terrible pun; but then this town is known for jollity.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his contrived jollity is driving me up the wall.
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Part of the problem is the decision to make The Man with Red Eyes a jocular sort of villain; instead of becoming more sinister in his false jollity, however, he becomes less so.
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Whether you're the warm and fuzzy sort or you're like me, and find enforced jollity a serious downer, it's hard to avoid contemplating hearth and home and the ghosts of Christmas past at this time of year.
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I'm hardbitten these days when it comes to seasonal jollity but a few of my seasonal buttons were depressed I can tell ya.
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Their jollity and enthusiasm are unbounded, expressing itself in clog dances and rousing old songs often in sharp contrast to the overworked, worn aspects of the members.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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In the animated chatter, the cracker-pulling and the jollity of a large party, people pay little attention to what's in their glasses.
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In 1762, he described Christmas as "The day of greatest mirth and jollity."
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It contains not one moment of jollity, humour, or that respect for the audience that had paid for their inclusion.
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Whether you're the warm and fuzzy sort or you're like me, and find enforced jollity a serious downer, it's hard to avoid contemplating hearth and home and the ghosts of Christmas past at this time of year.
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Foreign royals, it has to be said, often add to the jollity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chester would have been dreary indeed, but Madame Wachner was their companion on more than one long excursion and wherever Madame Wachner went there reigned a kind of jollity and sense of cheer.
The Chink in the Armour
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Behind his jollity and vividness, lay a cold, dark interior, hidden to all.
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We know the Doric mood sounds gravity and sobriety; the Lydian, buxomness and freedom; the Æolic, sweet stillness and quiet composure; the Phrygian, jollity and youthful levity; the Ionic is a stiller of storms and disturbances arising from passion; and why may we not reasonably suppose, that those whose speech naturally runs into the notes peculiar to any of these moods, are likewise in nature hereunto congenerous?
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Pearl was just a great, echoing, empty marble hall with a menu, which was the sort of list you might expect to be offered at Peter Mandelson's wake, but without that general sense of high-spirited glee and jollity.
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Kate Winslet, the emphatically English rose of British cinema, is a trouper, a ruddy good sport, a thumping great head prefect of common sense and hockey-sticks jollity.
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Even though the outing was begun and carried out with high spirits and a fair amount of jollity, we were both of us very glad indeed to tumble back into the car, turn the heater up full, and drive home as fast as we could.
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And yet an amazing amount of good feeling, and even jollity, cropped out between these opposed pickets at times.
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The falser the jollity, the more merciless the banter.
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Oh, my dear, I trembled at the prospect of his jollity.
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Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party.
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I timed the auction to end on the evening of Christmas Day, reckoning to catch those folks who will by then have retired to their computer to get away from the festivities and the family jollity.
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Not that a Brown premiership would be a thing of great mirth and jollity, even though marriage and fatherhood have certainly mellowed the Chancellor.
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I timed the auction to end on the evening of Christmas Day, reckoning to catch those folks who will by then have retired to their computer to get away from the festivities and the family jollity.
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The younger brother of the Battleship Potemkin has found a small round in his aging revolutionary magazine and fired it off with great jollity.
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So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation.
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Looking at her in surprise, he laughed and for a while, both of them beamed at each other, chortling with jollity, seeming like the carefree children they once were.
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Despite the contrived jollity anent the election result last May, they are not so completely out of touch with reality as to be deceived by their own propaganda.
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Time has been kind to this most English of bands, their jollity is as lively as ever, their humour hasn't faded and their charm is as infectious as ever.
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Kate Winslet, the emphatically English rose of British cinema, is a trouper, a ruddy good sport, a thumping great head prefect of common sense and hockey-sticks jollity.
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Doesn't the false jollity on offer simply make you want to retch?
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What's more, Manager Thomas Kuwatsch has declared that those who don't measure up to the prescribed level of jollity in the morning should stay at home until they cheer up, Ananova reports.
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And yet beneath the jollity is a deeply ingrained insecurity that leaves her feeling unloved and unwanted.
Times, Sunday Times
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So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity.
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Is the EIF by definition a festival exclusively for high-minded pursuits where jollity has no place?
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It takes courage to drop such a downbeat number in the midst of so much crazed jollity.
Times, Sunday Times
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They who compare old accounts with what is now to be seen, will agree that he who looks, at the present day, into the dull, dark and simmering waters, can have no conception of the jollity, frolic, riot, dissipation, and indecorum, which once reigned there.
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Organisers have received an email from Germany, whose people are renowned for its sense of humour, revealing the international face of the jollity jamboree.
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There's even more proof in the new duets album: While the pairings add to the jollity Lady Gaga is amazingly likable, and not at all trampy, on "The Lady Is a Tramp", the real attraction is Mr. Bennett himself.
Ready for His Autumn Waltz
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All the season's jollity exacerbates feelings of loneliness, but Mr McEwan will tuck into his Christmas Day lunch knowing he has many friends - the best gift of all.
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Even with a language barrier, it was always possible to communicate through smiles and jollity, for the Egyptians have a very wicked sense of humour.
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Above all it is the seriousness, the consistent refusal to engage in light banter or jollity, the unflinching Puritanism (as of Elders of the Kirk), indeed the crippling shyness that strike one most forcefully nearly fifty years on.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity.
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The words will be parodied, and the chief effect I expect from them must arise from their being _known_; for the joke will be much less for these jolly fathers to sing any thing new, than to give what the audience are used to annex the idea of jollity to.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
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All that fake jollity and enforced contact, not forgetting all those sprouts, has put the relationship under the most intense pressure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Note, The end of the sinner's mirth and jollity is heaviness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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`Forgive me," he said, reverting to his old, professorial jollity.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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There's even more proof in the new duets album: While the pairings add to the jollity Lady Gaga is amazingly likable, and not at all trampy, on "The Lady Is a Tramp", the real attraction is Mr. Bennett himself.
Ready for His Autumn Waltz
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Their buoyant philosophy has been described as "pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness and jollity without coarseness."
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Although Rowan and Stephen joined in with the jollity of the occasion, grumpy Phil didn't really socialise.
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The carapace of panto jollity is slightly too beamish and loud, and he isn't really listening.
Times, Sunday Times
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Charles, however, on account of his "jollity" and Spanish experience took him with him to Spain in 1659, though his presence was especially deprecated by the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Oh dear, terrible pun; but then this town is known for jollity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having written the song for her, Almond also performs guest vocals with Sally Timms on this single, in a rare show of light-hearted knockabout jollity.
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Their recreation has none of the free-form jollity that characterises the folk tradition.
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What is so effective about the film is the disarming jollity with which it knocks over the genre.
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The mood of enforced jollity is simply inappropriate for the Mahler Fifth.
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He told me he'd been on a film with an ill-behaved star who - to lighten the mood, or in a transport of jollity - took to dancing, in combat boots, on the roof of the propmaster's brand-new Mercedes.
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Above all, as several of my students have emphasized to me recently, what marks the poem is its tone of utter and undiluted jollity.
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Below in the barn black Cæsar sat quietly hatchelling flax, sometimes gurgling and giggling to himself with an overflow of that interior jollity with which he seemed to be always full.
Oldtown Fireside Stories
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But I do know what happens by way of compulsory jollity in the hospitals and clinics and waiting rooms, and it's a grueling test of any citizen's capacity to be used for so long as a captive audience.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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There has been no forced jollity.
Times, Sunday Times
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We slept soundly that night, in what was probably the best bedroom in the house, and awoke with a feeling that we were about to enter on a period of some uncommon kind of jollity, which we found to be true when we went down to get breakfest.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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The tone of the card is often one of jollity and fun with the sender trying to excuse their laziness with witty remarks and the message that instead of sending cards, they'll be donating the money to charity.
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And put the case, that in the literal sense you meet with purposes merry and solacious enough, and consequently very correspondent to their inscriptions, yet must not you stop there as at the melody of the charming syrens, but endeavour to interpret that in a sublimer sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He put so much dark jollity in them that they may continue spreading his Christmas spirit for generations.