Sentence examples for jolly than from inspiring English sources

BORIS JOHNSON Politician The London Mayor's Twitter presence is less jolly than you might expect: it's largely a series of ex officio PR releases.

As an adult, I find Disney's Mary Poppins somewhat less jolly than I remember it as a child – although not as dark as the books that spawned it.

Despite the remoteness, and the spookiness of our journey, we soon realise that, like Pozos, the town is a lot more friendly and jolly than it first appears.

He's sporting new plumage, more formal, less jolly than before - and yesterday he took to the skies at one of Davos' grandiose and unfocussed panel discussions, on terrorism.

The Momentum fringe is unquestionably far more vibrant and jolly than the conference proper, but the comparison feels like a discussion about which occupant of a morgue would perform best on Strictly.

Given heft by Biblical references and lifts from novels, Marcus Mumford's internal weather is intriguing, given his past relationship with Marling and, now, marriage to actor Carey Mulligan, and this second album is less over-weeningly jolly than the first, with incursions of electric guitar and drums.

This has led to claims that voters, feeling jollier than normal, are prepared to give the incumbents the benefit of the doubt.

Whichever way you look at it, you have to admit: giving a befitting reply to misguided youth whose fissiparous tendencies threaten the national interest sounds a lot jollier than "war on terror".

-COLETTE I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Six knots at the tiller of a slippery sailboat with lee rail under in a boiling sea delivers far more jollies than whistling down any highway at 120 m.p.h. in a Lexus.