Eksempler på 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.