Примери за jocular

• Our material contains evidence of stylistic innovation and jocular, creative, even satirical uses that require advanced skills from both the speaker/writer and the audience.

• First, the narrator frequently intervenes to make jocular and sometimes obscene comments about women's character and anatomy.

• Even the "jocular" definition has something going for it, but it depends on context; the definition is based on circumstantial evidence.

• A jocular approach to death is offensive only if it can be expected that the hearer would regard it as such.

• He was informal, familiar and jocular ; he could be bawdy, coarse and crude.

• From which a comedian might be inclined to draw a parable, flattering to his profession, of the respective standings of philosophy and his own jocular common sense.

• The clarinet solos take on a warmer, almost jocular tone, and the strings unveil a gorgeous, folk-flavoured extended melody, sung to sleep by those triplets, now in the celesta.

• They provide a climax, summing up, condensing and typifying, or mark a change of footing, indicating a closing or a contrast or adding a jocular tone.

• Of course, the variations described above are possible if one wants to sound jocular or if the sentence is taken literally, in its nonidiomatic sense: consider (a) or (d).

• Incidentally, it is very rare to find jocular use of prefixes, but mention must be made, and this seems as good a place as any, of underwhelm, "to leave unimpressed".

• I do not know whether that was intended to be jocular.

• I must protest against being treated in this jocular way.

• Indeed, in an almost jocular way, it ignored most of the recommendations that have been made so far.

• What about jocular words and uses in other languages?

• Although he makes a jocular point, it has a serious edge.