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.
