Sentence examples for old elf from inspiring English sources

Terry Pratchett is not a jolly old elf at all.

"What a jolly old elf Sir Terry is," he said.

"Terry Pratchett is not a jolly old elf at all," wrote Gaiman last September.

I was waiting for Santa, that jolly old elf, to give him the list I had drawn up myself.

They may not be everyone's idea of that jolly old elf, but New Yorkers have a unique claim on the gentleman - St. Nicholas, after all, was the patron saint of Amsterdams old and new.

Mr. Claus says this has never happened to him in his many years as the Jolly Old Elf, then adds, "They know not to do it to the real Santa Claus".

This year, jolly old elves from 12 countries -- including an American delegation of Santas with natural beards, not fakes -- made the trip Dyrehavsbakken, an amusement park outside of the Danish capital.

Chauncey Mabe, writing in the Chicago Tribune, pointed to the book's absurdities (the final episode features Santa having sex with an eight-hundred-twenty-six-year-old elf), but concluded that it is an "unsurpassed" portrait of human yearning.

Yet this 63-year-old jovial elf, with a streak of malicious devilry about him, is widely acknowledged to be a madcap genius.

Modern "holiday" films fail to ignite Christmas spirits because they're too concerned with crowbarring in cheap laughs, outfit-change montages and someone unlikely (elf, old person, Vince Vaughn) doing a hilarious "urban" dance.

I'm just gonna say it loud and proud: I am SO glad my kids are too old for the Elf on the Shelf.