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  • Jocular interlude: when I was an undergraduate at the University of London, one of my philosophy professors gave a small group seminar on the topic of whether language was necessary for thought (he thought so), and there ensued a lively discussion on whether non-human animals could literally think.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Jocular and witty, Jacquot explained that the impulse for this film was not primarily the eponymous book (by Pascal Quignard) but his decision to make a fifth film with Huppert.

    Karin Badt: Paris is No Paradise: Benoit Jacquot's "Villa Amalia" with Isabelle Huppert 2009

  • We also proudly manufacture the "Jocular Shorts" brand of male support products with the patented wisecrack back and popular adult beverages, including: Shenanigans Ale and Buffoonery Bock.

    Selling Humor by the Pound Don Lewis 2008

  • This will mean not only something akin to fascism, but also: "" Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion.

    Still Waiting For Lefty 2008

  • Jocular friends, acquainted by previous experience with this form of proceeding, had given it the name of

    Armadale 2003

  • But they who are Jocular in good taste are denominated by a Greek term expressing properly ease of movement, because such are thought to be, as one may say, motions of the moral character; and as bodies are judged of by their motions so too are moral characters.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Jocular allusions were made to these incidents, and somebody suggested labeling the tin "Made in Germany."

    Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters James Alexander Kilpatrick

  • Carew Hazlitt's 'F.gitive Tracts' (1875) and 'Studies in Jocular Literature' (1890) are both useful; and Mr.G. F. Black has recently (1909) printed a bibliography of _G.psies_.

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • _Jocular Man remarks_ -- "Now, then, CLARKE can go to Chicago, get a divorce, and marry LOUISE."

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 Various

  • Jocular Man, who says_ -- "Well, if that's moral, I don't know what's immoral; and I did think I had lived long enough in Paris to know that."

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 Various

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