Sentence examples for jocular mood from inspiring English sources

IVICA Dačić (pictured on the left), Serbia's prime minister was in jocular mood.

"Indeed in the course of a single phone call he would veer alarmingly from bonhomie, to bullying, to pleading and then back to a jocular mood.

The other day, in a more jocular mood, he used his feisty sense of humor when referring to his skill at taekwondo.

The chairman of the subcommittee, Jim Moran, Democrat of Virginia, who was in a jocular mood, congratulated Mr. Landesman several times on having hit the trifecta at the Kentucky Derby in 2001.

"I can see square dancing making a big comeback," he told me in jocular mood, "and maybe Roy Clark will be invited to play the White House, along with some other country people.

Appearing before a court in Larnaca on Wednesday, he appeared in jocular mood, waving a victory sign to assembled journalists and telling an investigating magistrate that he had carried out the hijacking to be with his family.

The Bludwork release treads a similarly light and bubbly path, pitching itself somewhere between the jocular atmospherics of the Mood Hut crew and the kind of swampy, sub-tropical house you'd hear PLO Man playing out.

So it was that he found himself fascinated — and a little mystified — over the space of two hours as the mood inside the darkened sanctuary zigzagged between jocular and somber.

This jocular introduction doesn't begin to anticipate the shifts in mood and technique that follow.

After a couple of early murders, the mood of the first half of the movie rises to one of jocular elegance.

Bob Henry was the jocular m.c.