Sentence examples for jollifications from inspiring English sources

The father, at that paper, of the humorous obituary, he was a lively, outsize character, his notion of rounding off an evening's jollifications in London's club- land being to roll down the long stairs at the Travellers Clubb.

This is a Guild Year and all manner of jollifications runs from Friday 31 August to Sunday 9 September, adding three days to the traditional week to mark Preston's first decade with city status.

A year of civic jollification has just begun in Liverpool, named "European Capital of Culture 2008" and given a big dollop of European Union cash.

Duffy's jollification may be a satirical counter to Horace's "Dulce et decorum est," but she's far too heavy-handed.

For undiluted jollification you bake in the sun at Waikiki with a mai tai in your fist, or eat lotuses on the Côte d'Azur.

Although "Donizetti" has no scenery and no narrative, it looks at first like an outtake from the older ballet's celebration of the festival of the vine, with the jollification of decorous peasants.

The river Thames has a way of defeating plans for its jollification.

A face-to-face conversation runs like this: communication, clarification, jollification, cappuccino.

I was writing Jollification (6) at the same time as I was working with the Bunnymen or the Fall or whoever, but then by the time the album came out, the world had turned and everything landed in the mainstream.

Col. Hamilton deplored excessive jollification on Evacuation Day which celebrated the departure of the British Army at the end of the Revolutionary War.

But what is that expense compared with the wonderful advantages secured in riveting the attention of the world, friends and opponents alike, upon the great cause for which labor stands?" We bet that were he alive today, Gompers would be as troubled as ever by all the jollification.