Sentence examples for jolly sense from inspiring English sources

Neither in the pejorative, nor merry, cheerful, jolly sense of the word, but quite literally in terms of orientation.

Undershaft, who has an almost jolly sense of being in the right, is in Warner's performance too obviously a shady character.

Dr. McKusick, a spry man known for his jolly sense of humor, said in an interview that in 1957 some of his colleagues "thought I was committing professional suicide in leaving cardiology to focus on rare and unimportant genetic disorders".

The purser, an engaging chap with a jolly sense of humor, told of a local legend started by a bored quarryman, that the island's rats had interbred with rabbits.

Though Pratchett's Discworld series has a particularly jolly sense of humor and brilliant characterization, most series are defined by their author's sensibility, and a ghostwriter can't quite replicate it.

In fact, the show was a jolly romp, showing a sense of humor and guaranteeing the designer an A-list place on the stars who will mount the Met's red-carpeted steps in May.

"The roles of coltish jolly girls suddenly made no sense for me.

Jolly staff add to the sense that a good time is being had by all.

A seductive Rococo palette (give or take a few black Jolly Rogers) adds to the sense of lightness, as does Mr. Zucker's deft stretching of the cotton balls to outline his cartoonish forms.

Because fans mostly care about games that matter, and because the various sports insist on pretending that all-star games somehow do matter, and because said games by definition don't matter and because there is so much else to watch on TV there's a sense that these jolly, meaningless exhibitions are, to a certain extent, on the road to extinction.

Some characters (Connell's bedroom-bound internet star Jolly Boy John, say) barely make sense out of context.