How To Use Rollicking In A Sentence
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It's smart stuff, but rollicking good fun as well.
The Sun
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The concluding Allegro has a rollicking, folksy character, complete with a drone-like accompaniment.
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It is a rollicking, unapologetic read.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, the pace slows down considerably at the one-hour mark, and the film has a hard time recovering the sense of rollicking adventure supplied by the first half.
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Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollicking tune played by the small band, and changing partners.
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He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spurs on his younger sidekick to a career best on a rollicking blues album that's full of great riffs and inventive playing.
The Sun
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Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels.
A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
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But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay listservs by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics.
'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture
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Although the film is strongly plotted, its leisurely pace and quiet tone take it more in the direction of character study than the rollicking caper promised by the packaging.
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GETTING a rollicking from your boss?
The Sun
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This thing fits in so well with the Goner aesthetic you'd have thunk that Eric himself played in the band - it's rollicking, R & B-driven gutbucket rock and roll, perfect for a Saturday night beer stomp where only 40 oz. specials are served.
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The winners were announced at the end, but the prizes didn't matter when everyone had had such a rollicking time.
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One would've had more rollicking good fun in an evening of prayers for the dead.
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Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness.
Instinct With Hellish Life
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Aside from the white-knuckle rollickings he on occasion delivers, the United players must look at him and feel their spirits lift.
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To call her diaries a rollicking read is faint praise.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while
Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
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Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus:
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
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Fela's songs evolved as jazzy jam sessions best appreciated with repeated listenings, but Femi's debut album, Shoki Shoki, leans toward rollicking, horn-driven funk with manic polyrhythms aimed directly at the dance floor.
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The cast was goofy and funny, while the action was plentiful and rollicking.
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The sun shone through the trees and leaves and cast a plethora of rollicking leaf shadows upon the ground.
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The play is described as 'a rollicking tale about love and lust'.
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Much of it is a rollicking good read, but the problem is that he approaches his subject as a political historian.
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It is a rollicking number, I will admit that much, but it lacks either the inspiration or the desire to sound at all unique.
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The album occupies three basic spaces: sparse and mournful, prickly and lush, and rollicking, but no two songs that might fit into any of the three categories sound the same.
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Real estate developers and students will have a rollicking time.
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Snappy dialogue, a rollicking storyline of love and piracy, and excellent supporting turns by Harlow, Beery, and Lewis Stone keep the bumptious "China Seas" afloat for the whole voyage.
John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood
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So it's all good, rollicking fun.
The Sun
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A group of lumberjacks supply a light, Broadway-like component of the piece, with rollicking ensemble scenes.
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The cast was goofy and funny while and the action plentiful and rollicking.
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So grab this rollicking, turbo-charged, garrigue herb-spiced red and rejoice.
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And when ye’ll hear the gould hommers of my heart, my floxy loss, bingbanging again the ribs of yer resistance and the tenderbolts of my rivets working to your destraction ye’ll be sheverin wi’ all yer dinful sobs when we’ll go riding acope-acurly, you with yer orange garland and me with my conny cordial, down the greaseways of rollicking into the waters of wetted life. b) Dorhqk.
Finnegans Wake
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These dozen folk-punk songs swing with an infectious rhythm and rollicking, poppy beat.
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This rollicking rethink of The Scottish Play gives a laugh-a-minute take on the downfall of a flawed hero and his psychotically ambitious wife.
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Rollicking, guitar-and-pianodriven rock'n'roll from the beardy showmen.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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He spurs on his younger sidekick to a career best on a rollicking blues album that's full of great riffs and inventive playing.
The Sun
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Almost as wide as he was tall, he had a voracious appetite for food and drink and a rollicking personality to match.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was before the blood disorder amyloidosis began sapping his strength, and he had just delivered a rollicking speech, without notes as usual, to a hugely appreciative audience.
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It is altogether a rollicking tale, if not an edifying one.
The Times Literary Supplement
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That is the beginning of a rollicking adventure that involves a blacksmith's assistant, a straight laced lieutenant and a chest of Aztec gold.
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I got the rollicking of my life; I just wanted to bury my head and die!
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He then became a Thames waterman, and increased his earnings by writing rollicking verse and prose; he obtained the patronage of Jonson and others, and diverted both court and city.
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Sunday's closing gala cabaret promises to be a rollicking affair.
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she was rollickingly happy
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His world of irresponsible young men let loose in the playground of colonial Ireland set the tone for much of Anglo-Irish fiction, notably the ‘rollicking’ novels of Charles Lever who did not scruple to plagiarize him.
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GETTING a rollicking from your boss?
The Sun
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There are gross facts that are lots of fun and it's a rollicking good read.
The Sun
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George R. Stewart (1895-1980), midcentury novelist and co-founder of the American Name Society, gave onomastics a good name with his classic "Names on the Land" (1945), a learned and rollicking act of patriotic toponymy.
A Long Way From Dullsville
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After his average form over the past two years, the protracted histrionics of his exit, and this latest tell-all tome, most fans view him simply as a narcissistic cry-baby who couldn't even take a rollicking from his own manager.
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When he dismissed them, the last flash of him was of a smiling, rollicking improvisator, bowing himself over to the applause till his black hair was level with our eyes.
Golden Lads
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But, overall, this is rollicking good fun and a genuinely thrilling entry into the movie series which does much to erase any doubts that their finest had lost his edge.
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He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the $10 admission, participants will get an evening of rollicking entertainment and a chance to win prizes in bingo-themed contests and games.
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The ländler of the second movement was truly rollicking in Tilson Thomas's hands.
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Rough, certainly, but rollicking good fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of the bourrées the group played (including on the recording) have this rollicking character, which is unlike what I have heard from other groups.
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Ali the Persian is a rollicking tale of fun from some
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Add to that some solid performances from a stellar cast, notably an outstanding turn by Johnny Depp, and you have all the ingredients for a rollicking good tale.
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There are gross facts that are lots of fun and it's a rollicking good read.
The Sun
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Tony Benn's diaries are a rollicking read.
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This wonderfully-illustrated edition of the poem, which is rarely reproduced in its entirety, begins in hushed suspense, and then builds into a dramatic crescendo as the rollicking verses usher in the mysterious midnight visitor.
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It is a rollicking, unapologetic read.
Times, Sunday Times
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So it's all good, rollicking fun.
The Sun
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The character was a rollicking success from day one, a marvellous, surreal, genuinely bizarre mix of whimsy, blarney, satire and violence packaged in outrageously funny plots.
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A break from the rollicking pastorals of the first four tracks, it serves as the album's star-gazing intermission; from here, it moves towards a safer indie-pop sound.
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It is a lost opportunity, since this book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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Highlights include the raucously freewheeling, beat heavy ‘Skeleton Key’ and rollicking singalong opener ‘Spanish Main.’
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The song is a non-stop rollicking hardcore fiasco with a fantastic poppy sing-a-long chorus.
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There'll be some rollickings administered at half-time in both dressing rooms, methinks.
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The room was rollicking with various movers & shovers wandering, drinking, eating and laughing in the way the they have been for years.
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My arbor was a shady little retreat that gave me a complete illusion of country; from the far side of the old wall came the song of the tropical birds belonging to Antoinette's mother, and I heard the rollicking warble and twitter of the swallows perched on the house-top, and the chirp of the common sparrows as they flew about among the trees in the garden.
The Story of a Child
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Much of it is a rollicking good read, but the problem is that he approaches his subject as a political historian.
Times, Sunday Times
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Douglas Wootton dramatises this bawdily rollicking ditty to perfection, down to the last nudge and wink.
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It is altogether a rollicking tale, if not an edifying one.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There are a multitude of directional effects and surround sounds to be found on this track, including a rollicking score at the film's bombastic finale.
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That simple, spontaneous outburst spreads among the villagers who join in until the whole beach is rollicking with the unrestrained, joyful laughter of a people who have found themselves and each other once more.
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It is all meaty and rollicking good fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rest is rollicking biffo in leather skirts, with a classy cast.
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As if to counterpoint the tension, a rollicking square-dance-inspired tune by Smith's sister, Soozie Tyrell, fills the room.
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His new show got off to a rollicking start last Friday.
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He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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The caterpillars, very active now, escaped from their muslin sleeve and were soon rollicking all over the furry upholstery, providing them with excellent camouflage.
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They have a very tight rollicking sound that will appeal to listeners.
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We got a rollicking from the coach at half time.
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Johnson said he had come up with the rollicking piano riffs and trademark rhythm backing Berry's lyrics.
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He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is all meaty and rollicking good fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rough, certainly, but rollicking good fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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With mocking, rollicking, sigh-streaked guffaws, his film ignites that inward turning, perhaps into directions he did not visualise.
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Speeches were made, toasts were drunk, the supple boards of the table creaked with good things, cook and messman vied with each other in lavish hospitality, the Hut was ornate with flags, every man was spruce in his snowiest cardigan and neck-cloth, the gramophone sang of music-hall days, the wind roared its appreciation through the stove-pipe, and rollicking merriment was supreme.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay e-mail lists by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics.
To foster connections, gay congressional staffers think Pink Hill Mafia
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Almost as wide as he was tall, he had a voracious appetite for food and drink and a rollicking personality to match.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's smart stuff, but rollicking good fun as well.
The Sun
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The sort of rollicking adventure mini-series that only ever gets screened during the holidays and may entertain the kids for a couple of hours.
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The rollicking rock moment sounds like it could have been lifted straight from the his songbook and screams ‘hit.’
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Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness.
Instinct With Hellish Life
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There's an awkward friction between Miller, rollicking ski bum of the people, and the exclusivity of a place like the Yellowstone Club.
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It is a lost opportunity, since this book is a rollicking read.
Times, Sunday Times
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To call her diaries a rollicking read is faint praise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best songs here follow their previous blueprint: rollicking, rumbustious blues-banjo riots.
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A break from the rollicking pastorals of the first four tracks, it serves as the album's star-gazing intermission; from here, it moves towards a safer indie-pop sound.
