Sentence examples for far from jolly from inspiring English sources
Rowdiest and most incongruous of all the demonstrators were the traditionally jolly foxhunters, now far from jolly because of a bill in Parliament to ban hunting with dogs.In part, this was political in its narrowest sense a frustrated and fearful reaction to the overwhelming victory of the traditionally urban and industrial Labour Party over rural, Tory England.
Mrs. Claus: Well, to be quite honest, it's far from jolly.
A clever observer, he uses a dry wit to describe a few far-from-jolly encounters with pompous big cheeses.
Asked to choose a favourite – perhaps the one with the far-from-jolly caption "Vegetating in fibres of blood" – Simpson said it was instead one with an image from Blake's work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, showing a bearded man and four robed women with the artist's handwritten words, "Who shall set the prisoners free".
And far from being jolly sorts with wooden legs and eye patches, today's pirates are nasty fellows with rocket-propelled grenades and speedboats.According to the International Maritime Organisation, 266 committed or attempted acts of piracy were reported last year.
It sits in an industrial park, not far from a BASF plastics factory, a Jolly French Toast factory and a plant that manufactures Liz Claiborne cosmetics.
But far from being contented, he's just "a jolly green joke", and not all that jolly if his boorish behaviour at his daughter's birthday party is anything to go by.
The photograph Will developed showed a dark mist rising from Jolly's chest.
(A dinner there this week featured sour ales from Jolly Pumpkin and that Belgian gueuze you desire, from Cantillon).
But the overwhelming truth is that Japan is just what Britain is not: somewhat isolated on the edge of its continent, very far from being Asia's international crossroads.I am coming to Tokyo initially for the annual meeting of a very jolly discussion club called the "UK-Japan 21st Century Group", once a stiff affair, now largely a gathering of friends.
