Sentence examples for jesting from inspiring English sources

In the Nicomachean Ethics (4, 8) he warns that "Most people enjoy amusement and jesting more than they should … a jest is a kind of mockery, and lawgivers forbid some kinds of mockery perhaps they ought to have forbidden some kinds of jesting".

JOHN McCAIN is a master of jesting about his advanced years.

It's hard to know if Atwood is jesting.

See the art of jesting at Corfe Castle (01929 481294; www.nationaltrust.co.uk) including stilt walking and juggling and attend "fools' school" circus skills workshops on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

Incensed by More's boycott, Anne thirsted for revenge after discovering that, although some friends of his had urged him to attend her coronation and he'd accepted £20 from them to buy a new gown, he'd stayed at home, jesting with his benefactors'.

Before leaving, Pan said, in a jesting tone, "So, nothing to do with me this evening?" "Go off," Zhang replied dryly.

But much of the forlornness of the frightening spaces in Beckett — the little rooms, the blasted heaths, the madhouses, the ditch in the rain, the country road with its one tree, the little glass jar near the slaughterhouse, and all the sequestered, jesting minds — is that these are sites forsaken by meaning, bereft of sense.

But they are the opposite of solemn; Goethe delights in his burlesque Mephistopheles, always mocking and jesting, as he does in the wild coincidences and improbabilities of Wilhelm's career.

An even harsher blow was dealt by the anti-clerical frolics of the "all-mad, all-jesting, all-drunken assembly" created by Peter and his friends.

In a Times piece from September, 2000, Robert Pear and John Broder wrote, "Colleagues say, half-jesting, that he has an evil twin named Skippy, who is invoked to bring order to an unruly White House".

"Basically, we make garbage because that's where it ends up," he said in his half-jesting way.