By adding more jocularity, which has included Miles prank-calling Gooden on road trips, Kansas has become a team that is less of a stuffed shirt. |
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Bartending is about banter and jocularity, but it is also often about maintaining a cautious eye, and to some extent, babysitting. |
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But despite his forced jocularity, desultory attempts at humour, and spurts of nervous energy, Obree is a husk of heroism past. |
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His voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. |
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But I think some decent and sincere people on the Right misunderstand the jocularity around here for a lack of sincerity. |
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Then, all in a moment, her face darkened with a mirthless glare as though there had been no jocularity to begin with. |
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In a morning filled with brotherly love and jocularity over how everyone was getting along so well, no one wanted to offend. |
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Yet he chronicles his travels with a wearying feather-light jocularity, prizing one-liners over lucid analysis. |
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Museveni spoke at the service without notes, ad-libbing with a jocularity that resonated with the mood of the crowd. |
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It's also the only mental illness that is treated with a strange sort of jocularity by too many people in this country. |
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After two albums, his severity was supplanted by a more beaming, bearded visage that reflected the growing jocularity of his material. |
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Any attempts to lead the judge into informality, personal approaches, familiarity, small talk, or jocularity, must be rigorously avoided. |
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It should seem he had that day been in a humour for jocularity and merriment, and upon such occasions I never knew a man laugh more heartily. |
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