I mentioned this to my doctor at the Royal Free in jest – but he tells me in all seriousness that they often have to pick up the pieces of botched operations overseas where someone has paid for a kidney.
According to Walters, "the jests had been pointed and the cartoons biting"; Roosevelt was seen to be angry.
2. J-E-S-T Jest, jest, jest.
"Life is a jest / And all things show it," the cameraman says at the play's coda.
"But still, how can I get out of this sentence?" Mr. von Trier, whose comments were apparently made in jest, Reuters said, and who had joked earlier in the news conference about making a pornographic film with Ms. Dunst and Ms. Gainsbourg, rambled through another answer before closing with: "O.K., I'm a Nazi".
Alluding to the law of non-decreasing entropy (a measure of the lack of usable energy as bodies of disparate temperatures approach equilibrium), Wheeler used to jest that if he placed a hot cup of tea next to an iced cup and allowed them to even out their temperatures, he'd commit a crime by raising the amount of entropy in the universe.
While conceding to the Washington Post (presumably in jest) that his view of the euro's survival "depends on my mood," he stated: "As a matter of substantive economics?
"None that comes leaping to mind, not even in jest," Mr. Bloomberg replied.
As Peter Galbraith suggested, half in jest, the Pentagon will get its war and State will get its postwar.
Responding to a question asked in jest whether Ryan offered Sanchez's friend and mentor, Mark Brunell, any snaps in practice — a classic Ryan motivational ploy — Sanchez cracked, "Who?
Some say (only half in jest) that Exxon's real challenge now is not below ground, where its excellence is unsurpassed, but in managing "above-ground risks".
