| The book's best jokes come at the expense of the fiction students, but it's not all inside-baseball japery. |
| Mathews concocts burlesques and parodies of such rare excellence as to put one in mind of the broad literary japery of Terry Southern at his most inspired. |
| It's a terrible disappointment to see, when the scene winds up with Corleone's collapse, that the japery was staged solely for its dramatic outcome. |
| Anyway, amid the japery, the joshing and the Latin sobriquets, Boris posited a very interesting theory. |
| It is hard to believe that this man captained an Essex side renowned for their humour and jolly japery. |
