| What is so effective about the film is the disarming jollity with which it knocks over the genre. |
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| Above all, as several of my students have emphasized to me recently, what marks the poem is its tone of utter and undiluted jollity. |
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| It contains not one moment of jollity, humour, or that respect for the audience that had paid for their inclusion. |
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| In the animated chatter, the cracker-pulling and the jollity of a large party, people pay little attention to what's in their glasses. |
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| He put so much dark jollity in them that they may continue spreading his Christmas spirit for generations. |
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| The younger brother of the Battleship Potemkin has found a small round in his aging revolutionary magazine and fired it off with great jollity. |
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| Their recreation has none of the free-form jollity that characterises the folk tradition. |
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| Although Rowan and Stephen joined in with the jollity of the occasion, grumpy Phil didn't really socialise. |
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| So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation. |
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| I think that perhaps the best way for me to cope with being over-weight is to make it a matter for jollity. |
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| I'm hardbitten these days when it comes to seasonal jollity but a few of my seasonal buttons were depressed I can tell ya. |
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| All have that characteristic Milhaud lightness and playfulness, that jollity and occasional raucousness. |
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| Behind his jollity and vividness, lay a cold, dark interior, hidden to all. |
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| Is the EIF by definition a festival exclusively for high-minded pursuits where jollity has no place? |
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| I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly. |
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| They will be aided in their dark deed by the union of circus clowns, who, beneath their veneer of jollity, are brutal and merciless taunters of the innocent. |
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| Not that a Brown premiership would be a thing of great mirth and jollity, even though marriage and fatherhood have certainly mellowed the Chancellor. |
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| Time has been kind to this most English of bands, their jollity is as lively as ever, their humour hasn't faded and their charm is as infectious as ever. |
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| Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity. |
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| Having written the song for her, Almond also performs guest vocals with Sally Timms on this single, in a rare show of light-hearted knockabout jollity. |
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| Kate Winslet, the emphatically English rose of British cinema, is a trouper, a ruddy good sport, a thumping great head prefect of common sense and hockey-sticks jollity. |
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| Looking at her in surprise, he laughed and for a while, both of them beamed at each other, chortling with jollity, seeming like the carefree children they once were. |
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| Organisers have received an email from Germany, whose people are renowned for its sense of humour, revealing the international face of the jollity jamboree. |
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| So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity. |
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| Despite the contrived jollity anent the election result last May, Liberal Democrats are not so completely out of touch with reality as to be deceived by their own propaganda. |
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| As the jollity reaches its height, Johan foresees the coming doom and screams at them all to dig in and hide if they want to live. |
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| Perpetual creator of play forms, he brings a coloured jollity in tableware and in lights. |
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| The stone of sun gives a lot of charisma, because it is a stone full of energy posotives, of jollity, friendship and meetings. |
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| Clad in silver foil and dripping with tinsel, glam-rockers were perfectly suited to the knees-up, mine's-a-double jollity of a proper Christmas party. |
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| Even with a language barrier, it was always possible to communicate through smiles and jollity, for the Egyptians have a very wicked sense of humour. |
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| Doesn't the false jollity on offer simply make you want to retch? |
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| The Large Hadron Collider was switched on last week amid scenes of pomp and jollity, much drinking of champagne, speech-making, and miscellaneous frivolity. |
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| The industrial workforce attracted less of a jollity of English glee clubs and also avoided the more robust militaristic style of music. |
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| Yet jollity and gloom are still at war in our censorious age. |
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| Earlier this year, Mr Chandra sued Mr Murdoch in a British court for breaching his agreement. The divorce will extricate Mr Murdoch from that mess, and free him to show as much Bollywood jollity as he likes. |
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| Along with the jollity of the trip from Tsing Hua into Peking are many undelights. |
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| I was the Guardian's design correspondent in the mid-1960s so I had a ringside seat as the primness of Design Centre selectiveness gave way to eclecticism, jollity, pastiche. |
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| Next day you are enveloped in the expensive courtesy of Disney World and then in the country-music sticky-barbecue jollity of a grand horse ranch. |
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| He would say what those of us in the stands where thinking, but not with the forced jollity and all too obvious facetiousness displayed by some of the more try-hard presenters. |
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| Better that way than a forced jollity or a bad-mannered show. |
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| In order to add jollity to the proceedings, said the dean, each graduand would find beneath his seat a little tub of bubbles, complete with mortar board cap. |
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