Contoh jest

• Each of the fool's jests is preceded by a poem that describes the fool in detail with particular emphasis on his physical appearance and the nature of his mental shortcomings.

• The verb est' "eat" takes a different prefix to signal telicity: s-jest'.

• There must always be a hidden profundity within the humorist's jest.

• Later he was to comment, only partly in jest, that television lectures were an easy way to write books.

• More specifically, it is important to ask what exactly is the nature of the humorous jest.

• Now supposing the revocation of the whole text at the end is itself a kind of jest ?

• In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities.

• In fact, the jest reveals a level of mental compulsion that verges on psychosis.

• They are endured as tolerances for pain and ambiguity permit, and then dismissed - sometimes with solemnity, sometimes with a jest - from sight and mind.

• Everything is just disguise, play, jest, flirtation and irony: things that ought to be in every way more difficult to grasp than the usual ordinariness of life.

• However, it is also a result of his seemingly unquenchable appetite - in a further jest discussed below he destroys the dairy while glutting himself on its contents.

• I chaffed about their going and made jests about it, but since they came back they have written reports of 30,000 words each.

• Inexpensive jests about hypothetical millionaires have very little in them beyond the amusement of the moment.

• I have been jesting, but there is a serious issue.

• One of the oldest jests in history is the silly excuse for the unwanted child.