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With Ms. Scott and Mr. Crossman, it's jocose, carefree.
Perhaps a little more serious than jocose.
This last school, known as La Giocosa (literally, "The Jocose, or Joyful"), soon became famous.
For one thing, Quick's narrator seems awfully jocose for a guy who's homicidally depressed.
In that context, his jocose stuff is even more sinister than his serious stuff.
The words range from the desperate and the apologetic to the insouciant and the jocose.
In the 1920s he painted some jocose still lifes with angular lines harking back to his otherwise forgotten Cubist period.
If they had one thing in common it was that all of them were slightly wayward, rough-hewn, jocose.
No attitude.
He was naturally garrulous and jocose — indeed, by the time he was a celebrity he was so garrulous and jocose that it shocked people, though he was just being himself.
Though The Man Who Smiled has its jocose moments, the novel appears to be distinctly Scandinavian in its gloom.
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