Still dimpled and blond, for some time she has been as stout as a Wagnerian soprano, which she gently jokes about in concert.
Young players, on the later tours when Bedser was in charge, may have gently joked about him and called him a bit of an old fogey, out of earshot, but they all had a respect for him and his principles.
In front of the chapel, he gently joked with visitors and welcomed them to the viewing.
In it, he managed to, in his gently joking manner, get people talking about things like not being able to get a boner on-command or having to do gay porn because the straight porn market was so saturated: day-to-day things totally intrinsic to the industry and its community that we at once guffawed at, but also thought, 'Huh, I'd never considered that.'.
In it, he managed to, in his gently joking manner, get people talking about things like not being able to get a boner on command or having to do gay porn because the straight porn market was so saturated: day-to-day things totally intrinsic to the industry and its community that we at once guffawed at, but also thought, Huh, I'd never considered that.
Almost to the end of his 91 eventful years, Donald MacDougall would appear at the annual party of the London-based Natinnal Institute of Economic and Social Researchandglass in hand, ready smile on his lips, anxious to receive and transmit gently ironic jokes about economic policy, and only slightly malicious gossip about economists and politicians.
When comedy goes well, a subtle liaison grows between the audience and the performer in which they are on equal terms, gently enjoying a joke at the character's expense.
There are sampled voices from movies, TV, poetry readings and The Simpsons, which scream obscenities, fight, joke, gently reminisce or trill through Disney's Pinocchio while Bourne's accompanying, interrogating piano thunders like an avalanche, drifts into Gershwinesque chords, flutters in soft, circling high ostinatos or hurtles through free-jazzy runs.
Look for opportunities to joke, gently tease her, and deliberately misunderstand the things she says.
If her friends gently tease or joke about you, take it like a man and chuckle.
