The opening number, consequently, was delivered through a veil of facetiousness.
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Facetiousness aside, we get it — he's an actor, not just a pretty face.
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They are serious not in spite of their facetiousness but by means of it.
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Shockingly (facetiousness intended), as if Pavlov had just rung the bell, James Bullard and Chair Jerome Powell responded with pledges of fidelity and support and easier money.
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" Kasky, whose off-air manner leans toward deadpan facetiousness, told Kelly, "I forgot to say that a lot of the girls in my class think you're hot.
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Online, white extremism has often adopted the "are they or aren't they" irony of troll and meme culture, allowing evil people to smuggle hatred into public spaces under a blanket of facetiousness.
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"The Wonder Trail" is a fizzy, wildly untrustworthy account by a guy who helpfully made up his own Ponce de León quotation ("To tell the tale of the journey is to go on it a second time") and who values facetiousness very highly.
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Neville Cardus's praise in The Manchester Guardian was grudging: he called the play "an essay in facetiousness".Cardus, Neville. "Gaiety Theatre", The Manchester Guardian, 4 May 1920, p. 13 Notices for the London production were mixed, but encouraging.
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Witzelsucht is a tendency to tell inappropriate jokes and creating excessive facetiousness and inappropriate or pointless humor. It is seen in Frontal lobe disorders usually along with . Recent research has shown that it may also be seen in frontotemporal dementia.
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Wing stated that the theatre was worth $1,800, but that the box office did not burn, and that the script of The Maid of Arran was written "in the box office with the charred sides." The tone suggests some facetiousness on Wing's part.
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Nonetheless, future translators would find much to fault in Motteux's version: Samuel Putnam criticized "the prevailing slapstick quality of this work, especially where Sancho Panza is involved, the obtrusion of the obscene where it is found in the original, and the slurring of difficulties through omissions or expanding upon the text". John Ormsby considered Motteux's version "worse than worthless", and denounced its "infusion of Cockney flippancy and facetiousness" into the original.
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The BBC's Spooks website depicts Zaf as a loyal team member, devoted to his job and the protection of the UK. He has a quick wit, sometimes bordering on facetiousness. He enjoys being in the field rather than behind a desk and he excels in undercover work, but he can be "foolhardy, and his risk assessment [is] sometimes weak." He gets along well with section chief Adam Carter, whom he "hero worship[s].""Personnel File: Zafar Younis", BBC Spooks website.
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Defining the film's theme as "murder of the mind", the Brooklyn Daily Eagle writes: "this strange story of family intrigue combines all the chills of an ordinary murder mystery with all the eeriness that modern science can produce". Reviewers cited James Dunn's light-hearted performance as a film plus. The Daily News of New York praised Dunn's comedic talents and his playing the role of a private detective "purely for laughs". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote that Dunn's "facetiousness helps to brighten the darker aspects of the plot".
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Pitt tended to socialise only with fellow students and others already known to him, rarely venturing outside the university grounds. Yet he was described as charming and friendly. According to Wilberforce, Pitt had an exceptional wit along with an endearingly gentle sense of humour: "no man ... ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any." In 1776, Pitt, plagued by poor health, took advantage of a little-used privilege available only to the sons of noblemen, and chose to graduate without having to pass examinations.
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As in some of his other early novels, Gilbert does not seem to have made up his mind about what kind of a narrative style to use. It is a third-person narrative, told by an omniscient narrator, but it veers between straightforward description, somewhat chatty semi-humorousness or facetiousness, and occasional hard-boiled grimness. It might in fact, be an early prototype of what later came to be called a caper novel. However, befitting Gilbert's status as a practicing solicitor, there are also numerous scenes set in one kind of court or another, and a number of other scenes revolving around finance and financial institutions, all of them done with his customary expertise.
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"The Lord Mayor threw himself back in his chair, in a state of frantic delight at his own joke; every vein in Mr. Hobler's countenance was swollen with laughter partly at the Lord Mayor's facetiousness, but more at his own; the constables and police officers were (as in duty bound) in ecstasies at Mr. Hobler and the Lord Mayor combined; and the very paupers, glancing respectfully at the beadle's countenance, tried to smile, as even he relaxed." (The Last Cab- Driver, And The First Omnibus Cad. Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens, 1835) Francis Hobler and his wife Mary Furby had four children, one of whom was solicitor and author Francis Hobler, Jnr (circa 1793-1868). His youngest son George Hobler (1800–1882) was an Australian pioneer who introduced the first Devon cow to Australia.
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Impressed with Brunel's short film output, Balcon invited him to try his hand at directing full-length features for Gainsborough. This resulted in five films between 1926 and 1929, all of which were high profile, big-budget productions with star names, and were designed as serious prestige vehicles with none of the opportunities for the humour and facetiousness of most of Brunel's earlier work. The first release was Blighty, a class-based study of life during World War I, written by Brunel's friend Ivor Montagu. It was reported that Brunel was initially uneasy about directing a "war film" as it went against his moral values; however the finished product contained no militaristic or jingoistic material, concentrating instead on the effects of the unseen war on an English family.
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TrouserPress.com called Across The Universe a "too-rare example of an indie act benefiting musically from major-label treatment"—citing an "increased rock edge that doesn't detract from the gentle charm" of tracks like "Snow Days", "Gone, Gone, Gone" and "The Crane"—the latter being the closest thing the album had to a hit. New York Newsday praised the album's "original melodies, soaring, driving hooks, and precise, daringly oddball lyrics", but complained that "the jokey tone often descends into feyness, then facetiousness," and said the "overbaked singing accentuates the overly florid lyrics of otherwise engaging songs".Wayne Robins, "They Might Be Overdoing It", New York Newsday, June 24, 1990, Part II p. 11. The Toronto Star called Across the Universe "odd stuff, but completely engaging."Craig McInnis, "Minnesotans Take Trip to Pop's Lunatic Fringe", The Toronto Star, May 11, 1990, p. D11.
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In it, the author of the sketch on Wagstaffe (presumably Levett) is referred to as "an eminent Physician, no less valued for his skill in his profession, which he showed in several useful treatises, than admired for his Wit and Facetiousness in Conversation." Levett and Freind were both friends and correspondents of the English antiquarian Thomas Hearne, who frequently corresponded with the two physicians about his health and other topics.Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Thomas Hearne, Charles Edward Doble, David Watson Rannie, Herbert Edward Salter, Oxford HIstorical Society, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1902 Levett rebuilt at his own expense the school physician's home, the home extending beside and beyond the great gate in Charterhouse Square.The Carthusian By Charterhouse, Charterhouse (London, England), 1837 Levett resided in the home until his death,Medical Old Carthusians: Their Lives and Times, Dr. Eric Webb, 1998 and he decorated it with oak panelling and elaborate carving.
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