jollities

Andy Hayman, whose contribution to the first half-baked police inquiry led to this week's jollities in parliament.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

Then came the stern rectitude of direct rule from London, replacing the improvised jollities and deal-making of “John Company,” as the old racket had come to be affectionately known.

Victoria’s Secret 2008

Then came the stern rectitude of direct rule from London, replacing the improvised jollities and deal-making of “John Company,” as the old racket had come to be affectionately known.

Victoria’s Secret 2008

Then came the stern rectitude of direct rule from London, replacing the improvised jollities and deal-making of “John Company,” as the old racket had come to be affectionately known.

Victoria’s Secret 2008

Then came the stern rectitude of direct rule from London, replacing the improvised jollities and deal-making of “John Company,” as the old racket had come to be affectionately known.

Victoria’s Secret 2008

Mutalammis and his wife abode together in all comfort and solace of life and in all its joys and jollities till death parted them.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Such jollities have endeared him to commentators - shades of Bush here - who have labelled him "engaging", "warm" and even a "friendly teddy bear".

Archive 2008-01-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

In strongly Protestant districts traditional Hallowe'en jollities were being ingeniously transferred to Gunpowder Treason Day on November 5th.

Trick or Treat? Or Penny for the Guy? 2005

In strongly Protestant districts traditional Hallowe'en jollities were being ingeniously transferred to Gunpowder Treason Day on November 5th.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

Bias plaints are always, at bottom, about the symbolism of an individual journalist's personality: the telltale left-leaning jollities of a Dan Rather or Katie Couric, the overripe entertainment-world analogies of a Maureen Dowd or a Frank Rich.

The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies 2005