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Still, other than that gem, all of the guidelines seem to been pretty classic rules of thumb for writting fun, rolicking fiction until we get down to the bottom of her section on plot:
Rebel Tales « 2009
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McCartney kicked off what he called a "mini-tour" with a rolicking and energetic concert before a huge and enthusiastic audience.
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I'm sure Ejiofur has some better roles to play than the Panther, (but nonetheless I do not think the Panther is unworthy of a fun, rolicking film).
Interview: Chiwetel Ejiofor on Redbelt, Serenity, and Watchmen « FirstShowing.net 2008
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McCartney kicked off what he called a "mini-tour" with a rolicking and energetic concert before a huge and enthusiastic audience.
Marlene H. Phillips: Paul McCartney Kicks Off New Tour and Rocks Phoenix 2010
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He was so bad he made her speech look inspiring and rolicking.
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If it were escapist, Ofelia would get away from Capitan Vidal somewhere toward the movie's beginning and have a rolicking adventure with a cute faun in a happy alternate universe -- more like The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, to which some reviewers, apparently at a loss for parallels, are comparing it (No Blasters, in the link above, makes a probably more apt parallel to MirrorMask).
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Joel McHale is having a rolicking good time introducing clips showing Williams floundering and fumpfering.
Elaine Liner: The Wendy Williams Show: Another Daytime Talker Offers Chewing Gum for the Mind 2008
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Joel McHale is having a rolicking good time introducing clips showing Williams floundering and fumpfering.
"The Wendy Williams Show": Another Daytime Talker Offers Chewing Gum for the Mind 2008
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So many scenes called for broad clowning and scenery-chewing, but efforts to keep it low-key just smothered what could have been a rolicking thriller.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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Alex Raymond's elegant draftsmanship overpowered his competitor's crude doodles, but the inventive, rolicking wild-west adventurousness of Buck Rogers was only IMITATED in the panels of Flash Gordon, and every fan of action movies, books, and comics knew it.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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