But doesn't make Trump look good -- or particularly jocular.
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No one is jocular on the subject, just in denial.
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The meeting had multiple jocular moments, with "laughter" noted 57 times.
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The music sounds marvelous, supercharged with jocular flair and soulful fire.
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They're jocular fellows, but they're not complicated women with abandonment issues.
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He also writes in a jocular tone, but with the English
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Lester Kinsolving: That seems to have evoked such jocular reaction here.
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One jocular gentleman suggested that he was preparing to pitch a curve.
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A jocular household employee becomes Papageno (the hearty bass-baritone Adam Plachetka).
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What turns a group of jocular, Bible-fearing citizens into a lynch mob?
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The larrikin is irreverent and jocular, ready to challenge hierarchy and upend class-based pretensions.
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He said that his messages penetrated more deeply because they were both visual and jocular.
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There was no jocular tone in her voice, and we never spoke of it again.
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He'd been recruited by the mysterious Mr. Robot (Christian Slater, doing his jocular-bully shtick).
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Along the way, they grew more dramatic, more forceful and more jocular, all at once.
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Differences between groups in things like height are rarely cause for prejudice beyond a jocular level.
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He swings abruptly from grouchy passive-aggression to jocular back-slapping and gleefully intricate secret handshake choreography.
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The energetic Mr. Ghaffari makes good use of the jocular Romeo's entourage to chart his accelerated maturation.
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It's meant to be jocular stuff — in today's version, Lim riffed on Harry Styles and Kendall Jenner.
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The President gravitates toward people who are brash and informal, and McMaster is a jocular, witty guy.
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But Justice Leggatt ruled against Blue on Wednesday, saying Ashley's offer was part of "a jocular conversation".
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Usually this scene is played as a jocular argument, but van Hove didn't read it that way.
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This, coupled with the frequent "swallowing" of consonants, can give the Beijing vernacular a punchy, jocular feel.
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Friends say he had a jocular personality and a fondness for his Mercedes sedans and his coveted Maserati.
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Did he actually try to deflect and normalize sexual predation as ubiquitous jocular language intrinsic to maleness itself?
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Aliaksandra Sasnovich was in a jocular mood following her 20000-0000 226-3 victory over 20th seed Anett Kontaveit.
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Dubuffet's works from the 1950s are more jocular and sprightlier than his sludgy images from wartime and the Liberation.
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Mr. Hanley, who stood an imposing 6-foot-5, was jocular and amiable but, when necessary, could be tough.
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The character was at once menacing and jocular, openly gay and privately tortured, a lawless vigilante and regular churchgoer.
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At turns jocular and loquacious, he discussed hiring a top editor and stressed the importance of editorial independence and tolerance.
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Meet Brûz the Chopper, Shadow of War's conspicuously Australian orc warlord, and enjoy his jocular assessments on life in Mordor.
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Ms. Monte's approach gives a natural flow to the story as it eventually passes from a jocular mood into seriousness.
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But to listen to Callaway on Sunday night was like hearing a jocular P.R. man wave off his totaled BMW.
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As the ever-jocular Mr Putin likes to say, take a chill-pill everyone, this is how things are done here.
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The level of tension seemed incongruous with a black-tie event that is typically a jocular, if occasionally sharp-edged evening.
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One is sassy and jocular, as Ayanna, a coolly confident would-be writer, hangs out with her boisterous group of girlfriends.
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Throughout the news conference, the jocular governor smiled and amicably engaging with the deputy governors beside him as well as the journalists.
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ADDRESSING over 2,000 conservative lawyers and friends at a banquet in central Washington, DC, last week, Neil Gorsuch was in jocular form.
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Bearded, tattooed, wearing a t-shirt, faded jeans, black apron, and a torn flat-cap, his tone was jocular but without bitterness.
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The mood was jocular; Obama told Trump he would get used to the camera snaps that will soon accompany many of his movements.
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Almost as soon as he's done crooning about all the rappers he's about to murder, he breaks abruptly into a jocular conversational tone.
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Whether explaining his dastardly plans to the audience or whispering sweet poison into Othello's ear, this Iago's manner is usually jocular and expository.
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Her album-length strategy hasn't changed: mix equal parts radio-ready bangers and melodramatic ballads, and season with inspirational platitudes and jocular self-effacement.
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And if you've never before encountered Bundy's jocular portrait of himself as he discusses his crimes in the abstract, it will certainly be eye-opening.
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Molly Regan, 57, the first vice chairwoman of the Scott County Democrats, said after his Davenport speech that she takes issue with Biden's jocular tone.
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On Wednesday, in his usual straightforward but jocular style, Alex Trebek shared the sober news that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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He keeps journalists awake with jocular sarcasm against the "neoliberals" and upper-class "fifís" who were the main beneficiaries of decades of free-market reforms.
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While he's often nearly catatonic as Elliot, Mr. Malek in conversation is jocular and excitable, his elongated vowels carrying traces of his Southern California roots.
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For many, Chirac's statesmanlike but jocular air encapsulated both France's rural roots and its central role in diplomatic affairs envisaged by President Charles de Gaulle.
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One of the children was Amine Jerbi, the cheerful and jocular 7-year-old son of Tunisians who tore around the room, clapping his hands.
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By giving them, respectively, a distinctive mustache and a jocular, London accent, the original Modern Warfare makes Captain Price and Gaz feel like close friends.
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To celebrate, the Transportation Security Administration has published a jocular blog post full of bad puns and winking warnings against bringing any prohibited items through security.
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That Black is being hyperbolic and that the rally is jocular in tone is obvious; that it was never meant to take place, much less so.
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In "Fidelio" the jailer, in a jocular aria, drones on to his assistant and his daughter about the importance of money to a good domestic life.
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I thought he was going to come over to me and say" — she mimed a jocular punch to the arm — "Go out and kill 'em, tiger!
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Compiled before dawn by Mr. Heath and sent out to 50,000 inboxes before the morning commute, Playbook is a briefing delivered in a jocular "Daily Show" style.
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While the lead-up to the budget agreement included sometimes tense wrangling between the mayor's office and the Council, Monday's event was jocular and full of good cheer.
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Trump is white in a way that previous presidents like the more patrician George H.W. Bush and his jocular son George W. Bush could never be, Naison says.
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Such cheek-by-jowl competition could breed the sort of resentment from which world wars are made and yet, the atmosphere is friendly, frenetic, jocular, and tangibly male.
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In the Mar-a-Lago cocoon, the president is in his most comfortable mode, friends and allies say: playing the jocular host in front of an adoring crowd.
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The best of these personal efforts, often featuring his jocular bubble-letter hand (see the Pizza Camp cover, which Beddia designed), are drawn in Sharpie directly on the walls.
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For the last two years, Yang, who friends describe as an affable, jocular but academic figure, had been living in New York as a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
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Reports by three French media outlets, Le Monde, Mediaparte and Canard PC, describe a studio where, offensive images are passed around as a form of jocular inter-office comedy.
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James S. Oddo, the borough president of Staten Island, is a Republican but nevertheless enjoys a close and jocular relationship with Mr. de Blasio, his former City Council colleague.
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It is when they are paired with his lyrics, which are equal parts jocular and dour, that they take on the veneer of monologues by John Oliver or Samantha Bee.
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Bill Clinton had not at this point embarked on his vegan glow-up, and so looks jocular and fluffy in shorts and a pastel golf shirt with implausibly girthsome sleeves.
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Garrulous, jocular and culturally insensitive, Alex's father, Fedor, is wedded to the status quo — outdated shoe designs and the bribes to party officials necessary to ensure his factory's smooth operation.
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Maurizio Muraro sang with jocular heartiness, and a lovely helping of tenderness, as the Bailiff, Charlotte's father, and Anna Christy was perky if wiry-toned as Sophie, her kid sister.
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Each of them had a background in tap, and the video game, in which they hit colored pads with their feet to visual cues, became a jocular way of competing.
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Once Billy says that magic word and his supersized alter ego appears, the movie goes to its happy place and comfortably embraces its own identity as a light, jocular, modest entertainment.
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Warner Brothers' reintroduction of Superman, 2013's "Man of Steel" was widely criticized for being too gritty and somber, a sharp departure from the more jocular tone Superman movies featured in past decades.
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At once deft and slurry, jocular and nonchalant, her playing is a jargon-free mix of influences: Jason Moran, Thelonious Monk and Chick Corea all slip briefly into view, then are chased away.
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Moss tries to write a kind of poetry that his American juniors rarely attempt: the first-person record of wisdom, jocular or weighty, gained in a moment or a lifetime, unguarded, openhearted, profuse.
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Ms. Ragoo, 78, credits her jocular spirit and easygoing sense of humor in part to her upbringing in Trinidad, with its tropical weather, laid-back way of life, and holiday and carnival celebrations.
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If Nazi Germany and the Holocaust are props, simulacra of events rather than the real thing, then it becomes much easier to throw them around jokingly as part of a jocular culture war.
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LAST YEAR your correspondent wrote a jocular blog post about the perils of taking his daughter to the opera, where she is constantly exposed to graphic sex, unspeakable violence and inappropriate female role models.
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Their ability to remain positive and playful lends the film a surprisingly jocular tone, and one can see how the young men have turned what could be feel-good pablum into an earnest philosophy.
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Larry, who holds the jocular title of chief mouser to the cabinet office, after being tasked in 2011 with alleviating a mouse problem at the prime minister's residence, was recently spotted with a limp.
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Segregation Nation "The Sellout," Paul Beatty's sweeping satire, slices through the story of race in America with linguistic bravado that is both barbed and jocular, overflowing with wordplay and long strings of cultural associations.
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He sprinkles his conversations with recollections of kindnesses bestowed on him over the years: a jocular telegram from Prince Charles in 1981, a thoughtful phone call to his granddaughter from Princess Eugenie in 2013.
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All the while, Danny DeVito runs around the Mexican countryside like a lost Marx brother, providing the final dollop of comedy icing on a cake that's made of jungle shenanigans, jocular drug dealers, and crocodiles.
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I liked RELLENO, SWITCH POSITIONS, CREDIT OR DEBIT, MEMO PAD, INITIATION RITE, COLD-COCK, JOCULAR, LITTLE WHITE LIE, LIMOGES, PATERNITY SUIT, END GAME, KEEP IT TOGETHER, LOITERER, SECURITY DEPOSIT, FITBITS, ITSY BITSY SPIDER and NITWITS.
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As for Saki himself, whose status-quo-upsetting fantasies surely sprang in part from being gay in a repressive age, he is portrayed by Mr. Paisley as a jocular soul whose eyes brim with tears.
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He looks me right in the eye and, for just a second, his jocular demeanor looks like it might slip for the first time in our two-hour conversation to reveal a deeply serious Bob Mortimer.
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Elon Musk sounded upbeat and jocular about the news on the call, and he also noted, as did Wheeler, that Wheeler would be heading to a role in the public sector from his position at Tesla.
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A bluff, plain-spoken man popular with the white electorate and a jocular off-the-record drinking companion of journalists, Mr. Botha at times showed a moderate streak rarely found among his hard-line party fellows.
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The Bludwork release treads a similarly light and bubbly path, pitching itself somewhere between the jocular atmospherics of the Mood Hut crew and the kind of swampy, sub-tropical house you'd hear PLO Man playing out.
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While Zuckerberg's answers at the employee Q&A meetings come off as more casual and sometimes jocular takes on his public remarks, the fact that two hours of internal dealings leaked to the press is significant.
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Shakespeare's play contains a lot of material that won't work in a ballet—for instance, a couple of those scenes where people stand around trading jocular insults that you have to consult the notes to understand.
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Hewitt told her (albeit in his jocular style) that she'd go to hell if she didn't vote, before launching into what is by now a common refrain: not voting for Trump assures a more liberal Supreme Court.
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There were moments of direct friction, especially in the final minutes of the debate over matters of national security, but in many cases the candidates' criticism was couched within jocular one-liners or pragmatic arguments about electability.
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Serk, an outstanding high school soccer player, is the group's Eazy-E, a jocular former hypeman with a sticky flow who, unlike the late N.W.A. svengali, gets his loose curls from his Nicaraguan matronage instead of Soul Glo.
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The theory about his body language grew out of F.B.I. memos, court papers and revelations about the interview in which the agents have revealed that Mr. Flynn appeared "relaxed and jocular" when they arrived at the White House.
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A few days earlier, we had the opportunity to chat with the jocular Mr. Medina at a rooftop meeting arranged at our Playa Larga hostel to meet the "people to people" requirement for Americans to travel to Cuba.
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Broodthaers might not be the first artist to come to mind as a touchstone for Feher, but it's not a stretch either: both have a jocular sensibility, a playful take on the readymade, and a fraught relationship to semantics.
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Metz, 36, has hit her professional stride recently thanks to her honest, nuanced portrayal of Kate Pearson, who has charmed audiences in part thanks to her budding on-screen relationship with jocular fellow Overeaters Anonymous member Toby (Chris Sullivan).
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They may begin with pre-written policy points, but will inevitably swerve into talk of windmills, dip into jocular opinions on light bulbs, corkscrew into savage commentary on immigration, then free-fall into musings on news of the day.
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At the tail end of the Bush years, after frequently guest-hosting for Olbermann, Maddow got a show of her own, in the time slot right after his, on which she pioneered a more jocular, cerebral approach to opinionating.
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The tone of the summit meeting — much of which was broadcast live in South Korea but not North Korea — was convivial and at times jocular, with Mr. Kim showing surprising honesty about the differences in conditions between the two nations.
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I was, and it turns out that the Real Salvator Mundi was set up by artist Elliott Arkin as an actual, operating business, to quickly circulate images of this upscale painting in an over-the-top, but ultimately jocular, way.
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As a companion piece to your recent jocular guidance for kleptocrats on "How to keep your ill-gotten loot" (October 25th), you could offer governments advice on how to expose the schemes used by the dishonest to hide their illicit funds.
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Alt-right personalities were now gleefully acknowledging that their successes in meme warfare relied precisely on the inability of media consumers to distinguish between the sincere and the jocular, between an ironic display of a swastika and a straightforward one.
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It's clear that these theories were spread with the same jocular intent as the earlier theory about the small German town of Bielefeld, so the only people who needed correcting were the Aussies who let themselves get upset over an obvious joke.
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Besides appearing to be derivative of the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's sculpture, works like these allude to topics of tremendous substance — the checkered history of religious institutions, for example — but in a facile, jocular mood that robs them of any very troubling meaning.
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It's notable that the first two victims in Alien: Covenant are the wife of the ship's commander, a man driven by a religious sense of his place in humanity's destiny, and the wife of the ship's captain, a jocular, reckless, whiskey-draining cowboy.
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Finley's "Swingin' A's" had won three straight World Series in a row from 1972 through '74, and, with jocular new skipper Chuck Tanner replacing the dour Alvin Dark, looked set to win their sixth straight American League West division flag in 19763.
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The jocular exchange is a more light-hearted moment in what has been a steadily escalating battle between the White House and House Democrats who are executing their oversight responsibilities to sharply scrutinize the Trump administration, as well as the President himself and his finances.
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But for almost all of his 75-minute performance in front of a raucous crowd packed into a hangar, it was in-his-element Trump, vintage 2016: rambling and fiery, boastful and jocular — the part of being president that he loves perhaps the most.
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In the first scene, when Daland, Senta's father (the robust bass Franz-Josef Selig), orders the young Steersman (the fresh-voiced lyric tenor Ben Bliss) to stand watch while their ship is anchored some miles from home, the Steersman breaks into a jocular song.
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The tone between the two leaders appeared friendly and jocular, as Trump took the opportunity, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Russian president, to throw jabs at both Democrats and the investigation into Russian election meddling now being led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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In addition to using it as a means of insulting his political opponents, Johnson's jocular chicken comment was made in reference to the US practice of rinsing meat with chlorine toward the end of the production process to protect consumers from pathogens such as salmonella and campylobacter.
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"I'd like to see some of these jocular analysts write tomorrow, ... 'I bet you can't beat just one,' as in I think PepsiCo now beats quarter after quarter after quarter for the rest of the year," he said in a spin on the well-known Lays advertisement.
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The concerto (1785), in D minor, opens with breathtaking urgency and suspense, as the upper strings push forward a quiet syncopated figure, the first violins sounding an insistent D. The air of mystery thus created carries through much of the work before dissipating completely in a jocular ending.
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Anyone who has dealt with online far-right trolls—the kinds of people who love to photoshop images of contemporary people being sent to concentration camps, along with more clearly jocular cartoons featuring Pepe the Frog—will be familiar with the way grisly, would-be humor is intermixed with bigotry.
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As its subtitle indicates, this jocular, fact-filled volume imagines what it would be like to witness or participate in various historical events, complete with tips on where to eat, what to wear, what the weather will be like, where to stay and how dire the bathroom situation will be.
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"This Is Your Brain on Sports" (Crown Archetype), by L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers, is a reader-friendly look at what the authors refer to as "all the batshit craziness that courses through the sports ecosystem"—a phrase that captures nicely the jocular and good-natured spirit of their undertaking.
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Ryan, Cruz and Rubio all plunged back into the limelight this week: Ryan had a high-stakes summit with Trump, Rubio sat down with CNN's Jake Tapper for his first national television interview since dropping out, and Cruz returned to the Hill, gaggled with reporters and exchanged semi-jocular insults with Sen.
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Kristy Puchko, CBR: Speaking of, Margot Robbie is perfection as Harley, radiating jocular whimsy and electric danger whether she's performing aerial acrobatics in her cell, casually threatening the lives of her fully armed guards, firing off at enemies for interrupting date night, or skipping into battle with a bat and a broad grin.
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Often people's response to the couple takes the form of jocular fetishization, as when New York Magazine's The Cut published a short opinion piece titled "Paul Thomas Anderson and Maya Rudolph Are the Greatest Celebrity Couple," affectionately citing, as a piece of evidence, an unsmiling candid paparazzi photo of them walking side by side.
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"This case vividly illustrates a ready willingness on the part of the West Linn police to abuse the enormous power they have been given, and a casual, jocular, old-boy-style racism of the kind that we Oregonians tend to want to associate with the Deep South rather than our own institutions," Buchanan told Oregon Live.
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A series of drawings by Edwin Lawson from the 1970s is joyous for its celebration of identity: the cartoon-like pictures of a jocular, busty redhead in vividly colored, elegant outfits are actually self-portraits by Lawson, an architecture professor at the University of Cincinnati who apparently let an alternative vision of himself loose on the page.
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The bigger surprise is how easily the town is persuaded of the conspiracy: Chief Hopper gets his jocular groove back, as though he'd just been waiting for a reason to punch sinister government spooks in the face, and it only takes a missing birthmark to convince Joyce that the corpse of her son Will is a phony.
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Granger Smith's "Remington" arrived a month later, featuring jokey numbers by his outsized alter ego, Earl Dibbles Jr. And Mr. Bones's own band, the Raging Idiots, a jocular duo that also features his show producer Eddie Garcia, recently released its first full-length album, "The Critics Give It Five Stars," which not only made its debut atop Billboard's comedy albums chart but landed at No. 4 on the country chart.
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