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May not this breed an irresponsibility of cleverness, a wantonness, an irreverence -- what is vulgarly termed a "larkiness" -- on the part of the youthful genius who has, as it were, all his fortune in his pocket?
Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879
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But, indeed, this Imperial debauch has in it something worse than the mere larkiness which is my present topic; it has an element of real self-flattery and of sin.
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It doesn't help that the backdrop of 9-11 and prisoner torture takes some of the larkiness out of the goofy tone of the film.
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When Julie Shanahan fails to live out her dream of glamour, her disappointment modulates into a drunken larkiness as she trails off stage, falling off her high heels and toasting herself with a glass.
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It doesn't help that the backdrop of 9-11 and prisoner torture takes some of the larkiness out of the goofy tone of the film.
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It doesn't help that the backdrop of 9-11 and prisoner torture takes some of the larkiness out of the goofy tone of the film.
Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 1: Peasants, Cats, Goats, Nymphs and War 2009
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To the Respectable Citizen, the Moral Matron, and the Young Person, with a love of larkiness and lilt, but a distrust of politics, pugilism, and deep potations, the following eclectic adaptation of this prodigiously popular ballad may perhaps be not altogether unwelcome.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 Various
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"I have seen larkiness dawn in them for an instant at some recollection, even when they were dying."
Tongues of Conscience Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin.
Heretics 1905
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At first sight difficult to associate tendency to larkiness with austerity of Member for Oxford University.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 Various 1898
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