Sentence examples for wholly joking from inspiring English sources
I'm not wholly joking.' Why, I wondered, were so many people who were opposed to the Iraq war, for any number of fine principles, also apparently opposed to (or indifferent to) the soldiers, unable to differentiate between the amateurs doing the planning and professionals doing the dying?
When, as honorary secretary I thanked him for coming on one occasion, he replied half joking, and wholly in earnest, "it is one of my duties to educate you politicians in military and scientific issues".
Buster's heavy, jazzy "riddims" were fused with his anti-gun and anti-corruption messages, at times outrageous sexism (unless his Ten Commandments of Man song was wholly a joke) and, from 1966 onwards, Nation of Islam sermonising.
A convention in the United States is that the higher learning is so serious a matter that joking or parody are wholly inappropriate.
Ellie: I'm joking and sarcastic.
Michael Simkins, an actor and writer in his 50s who has starred in Foyle's War on ITV, recently suggested on the Guardian's theatre blog (not wholly as a joke) that people of his generation needed just two things to survive in professional theatre: a copy of Shakespeare and a good lounge suit.
Mr. Clinton, his aides like to point out, has come wholly prepared on substance -- so much so that he joked the other night that he could draw a map of the West Bank in his sleep.
The father jokes about not being 'normal'normal
And there are periods where watching his dotty hyperactivity isn't a wholly adequate substitute for jokes.
