| I facetiously call it the bitter season, and there have been times when it's been hard. |
| I asked, facetiously, but I didn't feel in the least humorous. |
| Wamidh Nadhmi, a politics professor at Baghdad University, asks, somewhat facetiously, whether America really needs 4,000 diplomats to issue visas. Most Iraqis still want American help. |
| Suggesting it as to people whom you do dislike, even if you suggest it facetiously, is mean-spirited. |
| I am not asking this facetiously, I am genuinely puzzled as to why you decided to include this column over others in what I heard was a pretty heated competition last term. |
| In one corner, a fair philosopher in blue velvet and point lace, took the Sun in hand facetiously. |
