I've always loved the kind of joviality of the Davos/Washington jet-setting crowd while the world burns around them. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Priorities.] Reference
O'BRIEN: Kind of forced joviality at times, maybe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2006] Reference
Now, "he said with forced joviality," I've a plan. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Suslev said with a forced joviality he did not feel. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
"This is stimulating," he said with false joviality. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
"I'll bet," she said, carried along by his joviality. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
All his contentment, all his joviality, had vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
She was no good at backslapping and processed joviality. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2001] Reference
Strangely there was no sense of celebration, no joviality. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
Inside game: Nussbaum's joviality makes him easy to pick on. From Wordnik.com. [Bagels & Lox Vs. Wheat Bread] Reference
They're able to put up a good front of joviality, Allen said. From Wordnik.com. [NFL Player Found Dead: Kenny McKinley Dies Of Apparent Suicide] Reference
And there was considerable joviality amongst the lunch people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2002] Reference
With a somewhat forced return of joviality he decided on the latter. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
When the latter has departed, the joviality of the company increases. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
I tried weak joviality: "It can't be anything of earth-shaking gravity.". From Wordnik.com. [Question of Comfort] Reference
With all its alarms, however, life in camp was not without its joviality. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
"I loved her," the marquess said, his joviality deserting him for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the Sunrise]
I pulled open the doors, and burst in, absorbing the joviality immediately. From Wordnik.com. [On Pesach Eve: The Muslim and Her Inner Jew] Reference
She is reported to have been lively and gifted with a sense of humor, joviality and wit. From Wordnik.com. [Baum Gruppe: Jewish Women.] Reference
MOOS (on camera): The name tags, the forced joviality, comparing wrinkles and weight gain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2009] Reference
Better still, you can eat whenever you want -- no forced joviality at the captain's table. From Wordnik.com. [Your Ship's Come In] Reference
"Welcome Hong Kong side, Mr. Bartlett," he said with forced joviality, starting the engine. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
He laid the blue coat of thunder aside and descended to the very lowest rung of his joviality. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
All previous coronations were said to be outdone by the feasting and joviality on this occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
He had the joviality of someone who was surrounded by enough automatons like Denise to ensure his privacy. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
And so, while he was celebrating the death of another with immoderate joviality, he forced on his own apace. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Much laughter and joviality followed and an exchange of opinions regarding pistons, body frames, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter of Mary]
It was a little too early for the doctor, so I proposed a drink, and thereupon he developed a vein of joviality. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
She, on the other hand, admired the strange youth who, in his misfortune, could find such joviality at his command. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So when I'm seeing all of this joviality and people selling popcorn and coffee, I don't know, it just strikes me as wrong. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2004] Reference
Despite attempts at joviality, the conversation throughout dinner never strayed far from the trial and the looming verdict. From Wordnik.com. [Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bulow] Reference
New to scuba diving and archaeology I hope to aid the group with my background in documentary productions and general joviality. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Team Bios] Reference
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, you know," Prane said into the silence, but, to Helva, his joviality sounded forced. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
"Is that it?" said the Duke, looking at him with surprise, but at the same time with something of returning joviality in his face. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
“Recovered it within an hour of entering the house, she says,” Ketteridge elaborated with a no-false-modesty sort of joviality. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
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