| However, he is always cheerful, jokey and smiling, which I guess you have to be if you spend your day playing around in other peoples' ordure. |
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| She was subtly moving the debate on, from jokey repartee to smiling yet intransigent persistence. |
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| Ryan's whole body tensed up and his jokey, light-hearted aura dissipated in a second. |
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| The show opened with a jokey singalong that felt rather forced in its back-porch folksiness. |
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| Don't be put off by the jokey name, as it really is a treat with roasts or a heavily flavoured stew. |
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| A graphic art whizz had done it for him, but he had made the mistake of giving the red-top a blokey, jokey quote to accompany it. |
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| Nobody said anything though, and it may have just been dismissed as a jokey comment. |
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| Beneath that apparently jokey exterior there was a very nasty, brutal violent person who did tremendous damage to Uganda. |
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| It looks like TV and has the jokey obviousness of TV, but I tell ya, it grows on you. |
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| Online personality quizzes, jokey viral e-mails, and now a bleeding chatroom, of all things! |
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| His rare lyrical quality bears emotional depth without sickly sweetness, and sly humour without jokey or ironic irritants. |
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| For this reason I have done without anecdotes, cartoons, exclamation marks, jokey chapter titles, or pictures of the Mandelbrot set. |
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| Frizzy-haired beauties in starched blouses and boaters, fat pasty babies in frocks, scowling matrons in black tents, young men with moustaches striking jokey poses. |
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| We need good medicine, not more jokey formulas for snake oil. |
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| He becomes more and more peevish and tiresome, the archetypal boring jokey uncle of TV sit-corns, as his music becomes more and more unfathomably deep. |
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| There are scrawny ultras with their desert caps and ankle gaiters as well as jokey groups of walkers with sticks and cagoules. |
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| Is the song What's Your Style intended as some kind of jokey response to journalists always asking you the same question? |
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| He did his best to keep it informal and jokey but he was finding it harder and harder to pick someone out who would ask him a tame gimme. |
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| Anna Peters's work, by comparison, is a lot looser, cartoony drawings on paper plates, paper, acrylic on canvas are jokey one shot reflexive gags. |
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| He was often very jokey and I was always pleased to see him. |
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| Before the appendices he includes a jokey bit of philosophical dialectic. |
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| Yes, I know it's jokey, light, entertaining fare, but it's good as well. |
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| And then there are those celebrity babies with jokey names who grew up to change them. |
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| For instance, I sent him a jokey e-card for his birthday, and he accused me of viewing him as a joke. |
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| I think it may be a little too artsy and jokey to really connect with the voters. |
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| But that was a decade ago, and lurie has moved into less jokey terrain. |
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| What we get is a sporadically coherent, jokey string of chases, fights and explosions. |
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| Brandishing jokey placards, they threw glitter over embarrassed Dave, blew party horns and did an impromptu conga. |
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| And its occasionally whimsical, jokey tone, which has Munny falling into the pigswill and struggling to mount his horse once or twice too often, further encourages us to view him sympathetically enough to arouse suspicion. |
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| Mr President, even though you made some jokey remarks about this MIFID arriving in the European Parliament, I should like to say that it is not just a technical issue that we are adopting today. |
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| In this case you should never use a jokey or eccentric e-mail address. |
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| Try to use a punchy headline to capture the attention of the journalist i.e. 'Ground breaking Effort to raise Money for Research', but make sure it is factual and not jokey. |
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| It's indicative of the movie's jokey, aren't-we-something bravado which, ultimately, comes off pretty hollow in light of its performance. |
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| In front of the dome, someone has planted the standard jokey symbol of isolation, a milepost that shows Kangerlussuaq, the nearest town, to be nine hundred kilometres away. |
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| The singer was in a jokey mood when took to the Ingliston stage. |
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| And Zara gave the rugby star a maximum 180 as he put on a jokey disguise. |
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| The jokey odds capped a day which stunned the political world. |
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| The horse, riden by the jokey William Beok, won the race considered a qualifying step for the world horse race scheduled to be held in Dubai in March this year. |
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| Jokey paintings by Pavel Pepperstein are merely send-ups of history. |
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