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jollity

noun

The state of being jolly; cheerfulness.

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So much here prefigures the tropes found in modern winter literature: family and friends gather for warmth and jollity, feasting is the order of the day, good cheer is lubricated by heroic quantities of booze … and then the stranger arrives.

As the jollity reaches its height, Johan foresees the coming doom and screams at them all to dig in and hide if they want to live.

Considering the parlous positions of the two Championship sides at the moment, it may be the only jollity available by the seaside this Saturday, and even then it does not seem a great idea to remind the currently labouring Wigan side of their fresh air and fun days in the Premier League.

Next day you are enveloped in the expensive courtesy of Disney World and then in the country-music sticky-barbecue jollity of a grand horse ranch.

Earlier this year, Mr Chandra sued Mr Murdoch in a British court for breaching his agreement.The divorce will extricate Mr Murdoch from that mess, and free him to show as much Bollywood jollity as he likes.

Her teenage son treasures the brave letters, full of football and jollity, quoting scraps of comic verse ("When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe/ I'm going to keep a jellyfish and listen to it breathe") that his father had sent home from the horror of the blood-and-shit trenches.

Last July, The Economist speculated that Southwest's secret is that its "staff... affect a madcap jollity reminiscent of British holiday camps in the 1970s".That's part of the story.

As ruler, he was stuck there, pining for the jollity of the old days.

WHILE much of the world is swathed in gloom, the 48th annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which opened to the public on January 6th, is all jollity.

Migratory birds are the only animals feted, but their day shifts, appropriately enough, falling on the second weekend in May.In this section No God, not even Allah Dies irae The east is red ReprintsStrict observance of the UN's calendar would mean more woe than jollity.

Southwest's staff, in contrast, affect a madcap jollity reminiscent of British holiday camps in the 1970s.

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