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My first evening, a peaceful, contemplative night at the Hotel Cardoso, a beautiful white wedding-cake pile overlooking Maputo Bay, is rather disrupted by the raucous rat-a-tat of Afrikaner joviality , as large bearded males warm up for a night on the pull.
At any rate, the joviality began to disappear from the paintings of Hals's middle age.
Toulouse-Lautrec was, as two observers have concluded, a "sensitive, deeply affectionate man, conscious of his infirmity but wearing a mask of joviality and irony".
This was her second Group One success for Simcock as deputy for William Buick – this time claimed for Joviality , in third – following that breakthrough success on Dream Ahead in the July Cup last year.
You find yourself limiting contact as their banter and joviality and questions of concern only add to your anxiety and desperation to find a club, which in turn leads to a reclusive way of thinking and an almost self-imposed isolation.
The reporter adds that Kim demonstrated an "iron head" for drink during the course of their subsequent meetings, which took place over a series of long, boozy meals: "I could detect no change in his alertness or joviality as the waiter arrived with relays of 300 grams of vodka or 600 grams of Armenian brandy".
Apart from the heads, we have no injuries," he said of the psychological effects of being Thomas Müller-ed Müller-ede wandsome jovialithereen he cited longevity as a reason not to put the 5-1 hammering into context.
Mr. Ferrer's direction is, of course, responsible for much of the extraordinary joviality of the proceedings, but a cheerful and ingeniously lighted set by Wolfgang Roth makes an important contribution, too.
Metaphors of androgynous transcendence abound in Colette's portrait: Lea has turned "simple, merry...like an old man," her joviality is "like a legendary friar's," her great jowls now quiver like those of Louis XVI, she has joyfully achieved "a sort of sexless dignity".
These recordings of the thirties are the source of the world's Djangomania, and their appeal has something to do with their sheer bounce, the drummerless, up-and-down-the-merry-go-round joviality.
Webb's ruddy pugnacity does not easily accommodate the joviality demanded by his new calling in politics.
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The primary grammatical function of "joviality" is that of a noun . As suggested by Ludwig AI, it typically refers to a state or quality of being cheerful and friendly. It often acts as the subject or object in a sentence, describing an atmosphere or a personal trait.
Expression frequency: Very common
