| The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart. |
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| Anyone with fond memories of fluke jollities such as National Express and Something for the Weekend will be flummoxed by Absent Friends's Jacques Brelian melodrama. |
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| But if withdrawal symptoms are the worst plague of such jollities, then knock yourself out. |
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| Scots and Irish and cockney are central voices, not just exotic jollities. |
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| Maybe for next month we could drop from the jollities of Blandings into the murky depths of noir, with some Dashiell Hammett or James M Cain or something. |
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| Across the US, candidates traditionally attend rallies, barbecues and similar jollities in their states and districts. |
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| At home with his family in Kentish Town, north London, or in Rowsley, where every summer Phillip Whitehead's XI took on the village cricket team, he presided over convivial jollities. |
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| Her successor, Sarah Brown, already an accomplished public relations practitioner, was not going to make the same mistake of being branded a wicked witch with a letterbox mouth obsessed with New Age jollities. |
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