Like the hugs with which he greets even strangers, these stories can disarm opponents, either by setting a jovial tone for a conversation by deftly guiding it away from any minefields or simply by running out the clock.
The team bus was the usual jovial place to be.
An Indian spin on the John Hughes playbook, this jovial, 1980s-set tale of book-smart male college nerds in Bangalore dumbly bumbling their way out of virginity goes light on the raunch by western standards, but establishes its own ground by deftly weaving local, caste-related tensions into its adolescent nostalgia.
People magazine reports that the 25-year-old actress celebrated with her co-stars in a jovial on-set scene that had the cast raising glasses of fake Champagne to the star.
The poems she chose encompass lullaby, elegy, fantasy, nonsense and tall tales, often with plucky heroines like "Griselda," a ravenous girl whose story is set to jovial Memphis soul, or Isabel in Ogden Nash's "Adventures of Isabel," who overpowers a witch and a giant to a Cajun tune.
In the long orchestral exposition of the jovial first movement, Mr. Masur set a restrained tempo, drawing out the sometimes mellow cast and weightiness of the music.
Badrigian, with his jovial Northeastern accent and handlebar mustache, set a laid-back, cozy tenor, as he poured terrific takes on the Paper Plane (bourbon, Aperol, Montenegro, lemon) and the Ancient Mariner (rum, grapefruit liqueur, lime).
Unlike the jovial Steve Buscemi, Strummer did not stay on set to joke with the veteran actors between shots, but instead preferred to keep his own company, focusing intensively on orienting himself to the role.
Stepping up after a jovial Chez Damier set, the Londoner brought his own potent concoction to the Piknic stage.
