facetiousness

Update: The point of my facetiousness is to simply point out that when societal attitudes begin to change for the better regarding race, it always seems like (many) far-right conservatives are waiting to seize on (or invent) anything that could be considered an "overreach".

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies 'shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health.

Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing Charles Dudley Warner 1864

For a certain portion of the passengers had the unmistakable excursion air: the half-jocular manner towards each other, the local facetiousness which is so offensive to uninterested fellow-travelers, that male obsequiousness about ladies 'shawls and reticules, the clumsy pretense of gallantry with each other's wives, the anxiety about the company luggage and the company health.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Hultin tries to play fair ball with Ephesians in translating εὐτραπελία as "facetiousness".

The Busybody 2009

Then it seemed to me one entered a long patch of really bad writing [with] redundant adjectives, a kind of facetiousness, a terrible prolixity in the dialogue of such characters as the Nurse and Prunesquallor, and sentimentality too in the case of Eda [sic] and to some extent in Titus’s sister.

Weird Factoid of the Day Walter Jon Williams 2009

"Oh, I don't know," she smiled, half with facetiousness and half with certainty and pride.

CHAPTER XI 2010

Allowing for some degree of facetiousness on Andrew's part, he is otherwise highlighting the assumption that "good writing" consists essentially of deploying figurative language -- in this instance specifically a simile: "was wet like ..." -- in strategically chosen flourishes as a way to "describe."

Style in Fiction 2009

Despite this initial facetiousness, Aaronovitch acclaimed a book he found "technically accomplished, brilliantly written, full of wit and virtuosity".

Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011

He was quite his ordinary self, his facetiousness the cause of much laughter to Miss

CHAPTER XXIX 2010

But it's without any facetiousness that I admit that there's one game release this week that's particularly pricked my ear:

Boing Boing 2009