japery

For the first time, she spoke without hostility or japery.

Swapping speed for japery may well have resulted in the conversion of that fallen Boar into bacon.

Sharpe guessed that he had already made up his mind to join and that this drinking and japery were not to his taste.

I have always had an acute sense of my own dignity and integrity, and any japery or ridicule fills me with murderous resentment.

The cartoon is notable for its high level of japery throughout, and its remarkable sequence of 13 consecutive pratfalls.

Pingu is enticed immediately to join an acrobatic game in which a large pink fish is the object of their japery.

They shared a fondness for exactitude in language and for japery as well as a common commitment to literature."

It was grueling and tense, and Metcalfe knew that their japery was one of the few ways they had of relieving the grinding tension.

A comic skit, really, with quick changes, slapstick, clown faces, and japery, lasting twenty minutes when I was really rolling.)

Though there is no nudity or profanity, there is enough wink-wink, nudge-nudge japery to fill a fourth Austin Powers film.

The Frank straightened his cuffs and hose and re-entered the caravansary, declining to accept the congratulations or good-natured japery of the losing bettors.

The "japery" alluded to in the title is Allen Purcell's wanton destruction of a statue of General Streiter.

Struggling for a Purple Rose Of Cairo effect, Nichetti fails because his cartoon capers have no symbolic significance beyond mere slapstick japery.

The overly-macho, testosterone-fuelled, elbows-and-knees japery of punk (and god knows I've loved that on occasion) means a disconnection between the band and the majority of the audience.

Executives of Unicorn Heritage, which owns Royal Britain, say Mr. Lovell was an excellent jester until he started pointing his japery beyond medieval royalty.

That said, there's still plenty here to annoy right-wingers, as well as those who, however much they agree with Moore's politics, just can't stomach his oversimplification, on-the-nose sentimentality and goofball japery."

Each day has a different theme, be it debate, technobabble, lyrical, chatterbox or banter so choose the topic that most piques your interest and prepare for an evening of jokes, japery, poetry and storytelling.

It is this sense of self-mockery that turns a potentially daunting novel into a hospitable work, a book that for all its high jinks and japery finally wins us over with the warmth of its human understanding.

Amid such a kinetic routine, it is no wonder that, for all his casual scholarliness, Mr. Callow retains a wisp of the Harpo-eyed japery that he used so creatively as the original stage Mozart in "Amadeus."

His irrepressible japery, his characters' steadfast refusal to take themselves too seriously, his focus on the excessively ordinary artifacts of blue-collar small-city life might lead one to take him as a jokester, the operator of a literary amusement park.

There is little hint of Smith's culturally diverse background in her essays on (mostly Hollywood) movies and stars; they belong recognizably to an Anglo-American tradition of writing about cinema that alternates between masochistic reverence and slash-and-burn japery.

The painful japery does wear thin-as does Clarkson's boorishness ,but I had to laugh during the recent India special at the genuine annoyance on Clarkson's face when James May sabotaged his heater in the long running 'aircon war'.

As the day in court evolved, the sobriety of nine robed Justices in the matter of Clinton v. Jones offered a welcome counterpoint to the japery of five raincoated Bill Clinton impostors protesting in mock luridness outside the courthouse.

The truly astounding aspect of the dinner was not the political japery but Obama's knowledge that, as soon as the weather in northern Pakistan cleared, his own black helicopters would ferry a crew of Navy SEALs to bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad.