Example: Jolly Inc. is a top performing S&P 500 listed company whose two-year total return outperformed the market by over 60%.
For example, Jolly Beach Resort & Spa, set on a lovely beach on Antigua's west coast, is within walking distance of the lively local marina, and buses stop outside the hotel.
Hatherley describes the Hollywoodesque revue film Jolly Fellows (1934), for example, as a work that out-eccentrics the eccentrists, with its perfectly synchronised dancing girls showing a debt both to Busby Berkeley and Ford.
5.40pm: Paul Waugh on his blog has an example of a jolly anti-Conservative viral ad inspired by David Cameron's announcement today.
Alexander the Great's favourite play, for example, was decidedly jolly: in Euripides's lost Andromeda, which told the story of the heroine's rescue from death by the hero Perseus, the two marry.
The same is true of the adjective "Dickensian" which, depending on the context, is used to mean one of three things: festive or jolly (a Dickensian Christmas, for example); squalid or antiquated (as in "a Dickensian slum" or "to work in positively Dickensian conditions"); characters so idiosyncratic and improbable as to seem to belong in a Dickens novel ("a truly Dickensian waiter").
(Witness the media's generally jolly treatment of Charlie Sheen, for example).
When looking at the places and people in these pictures - the jolly French version of the Last Supper, for example - a curious reversal occurs.
An example of such an instrument is the Jolly balance, which provides numerical values for a small mineral specimen (or fragment) in air as well as in water.
For example, tetherin restricts (Neil et al., 2008) or enhances (Jolly et al., 2010) HIV-1 replication, depending on the assay used.
