'Tis the season to be jolly, even if the jolliness involves a bit more trouble.
Presented by old hand Angus Deayton, it was a jolly listen, with most of the jolliness provided by Miles Jupp's dad, who gave the answers for Miles's round, and Rufus Hound, who has quite the most infectious chuckle on radio.
Like Filipino working folk, explains Mr Tan, "the bee hops around and produces sweet things for life, and is happy even though it is busy .Indeed, the corporate jolliness is infectious, and as much a part of Mr Tan's success as his recipes.
The party is promoting him as a kind of Father Christmas without the undignified jolliness; a sage whose role in the development of centuries of Chinese authoritarianism the party glosses over in favour of his philosophy's pleasant-sounding mantras: benevolence, righteousness and (of importance to Mr Hu) harmony.
The small group of people who are close to the chancellor testify to his jolliness when surrounded by trusties.
I'm glad that I went, even though the vocals on this version of "Pocket Calculator" lacked the jolliness and guts of the original.
Hals's relentless jolliness isn't confined to his genre scenes of rollicking topers, such as "Young Man and Woman in an Inn" (1623).
The popular image of the butcher is a big man with a florid face and a menacing jolliness — what Erika calls "the fat dude in a bloody apron".
There was no outpouring of chauvinist movies to stiffen our resolve, making us kill jolliness.
All the jolliness had dried up.
A round, bearlike man with a graying beard and twinkling eyes, Mr. Bunch exudes a kind of jolliness — you can imagine him presiding over family gatherings with stories and jokes — and his manner of speaking is mellow and even.
