To his brother, Theo, who worked at Goupil et Cie, he denounces Fortuny's 'raillery'.
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Often, though, their teasing doesn't feel different from the family raillery of many a sitcom.
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Word of the Day : light, teasing repartee _________ The word raillery has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.
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The two sporty leaders have engaged in pre-prandial raillery about which country's ice-hockey teams are better.
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Some may feel, in this Trumpus Caesar summer, that such raillery, let alone the underlying idea of trying to understand why Americans have shot presidents, is an untoward or trite provocation.
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True, his persona and character were ripe for raillery as coarse, capricious, deceitful and divisive, but multitudes embraced the novelty of his candidacy and many others found the alternative yet more unpalatable.
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The actor, with the aid of amplification, thundered the tribune's grave reply to the cobbler's raillery, as if the sky were about to open, and indeed the performance began with a reverberating crack.
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He's macho-laconic as a fellow dog owner in the park, with whose pet Sylvia engages in a sexual frolic that leaves both men embarrassed and aghast; quite funny as that blue-blooded friend of Kate, whose assault by Sylvia is the cause of much raillery; and amusingly androgynous as the therapist of indeterminate gender whom Greg is eventually coaxed into consulting.
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He was brusque, authoritative, given to contradiction, rough though never dirty in his personal belongings, and inclined to indulge in a sort of quiet raillery.
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Again, the portrait is mostly positive but with a few faults noted in passing. "Mr. Jeffrey's conversation is equally lively, various and instructive. ... Whether it be politics, or poetry, or science, or anecdote, or wit, or raillery, he takes up his cue without effort" and provides "an uninterrupted flow of cheerfulness and animal spirits" and enormous "fund of information".Hazlitt 1930, vol.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.' Charles Perrault wrote of the Letters: "Everything is there—purity of language, nobility of thought, solidity in reasoning, finesse in raillery, and throughout an agrément not to be found anywhere else."Charles Perrault, Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes (Paris, 1693), Vol. I, p. 296.
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Among other pamphlets, Pickworth issued A Charge of Error, Heresy, Incharity, Falshood, Evasion, Inconsistency, Innovation, Imposition, Infidelity, Hypocrisy, Pride, Raillery, Apostasy, Perjury, Idolatry, Villainy, Blasphemy, Abomination, Confusion, and worse than Turkish Tyranny. Most justly exhibited, and offered to be proved against the most noted Leaders, &c.;, of the People called Quakers, London, 1716. Pickworth sought to show that all Quakers were papists, and that William Penn died insane.
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No outdoor forms of life were too simple or too tiny forher to notice. She made things of nature think and speak as if they were real persons. Often by a dainty touch, or lively prelude, gentle raillery revealed itself, and in this respect, Gould manifested a decided individuality. Gould seemed as fond as Aesop or La Fontaine of investing every thing in nature with a human intelligence.
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Amid bushes and leaves they sit, gathering flowers in their laps and calling one another in raillery. Golden sun plays about their form reflecting them in the clear water. The sun reflects back their slender limbs, their sweet eyes, and the breeze teasing up the warp of their sleeves, directs the magic of perfume through the air. O see, what a tumult of handsome boys there on the shore on their spirited horses.
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Furthermore, it was used as a test case for Drury Lane. The managers claimed that they needed no license from the master of revels, and they presented The Country Lasses without license. The play is sentimental, affectionate, and nostalgic, with little of the sexuality or raillery of earlier comedies. The next year, Johnson was more overtly political with The Cobler of Preston, which was a play about the Jacobite rising of 1715.
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The hermit's name was changed to Athanaël, who is presented with greater sympathy than in the novel. The first duet between Athanaël and Thaïs contrasts his stern accents and her raillery. The last scene's duet shows a reversal of rôles, in which the pious and touching phrases of Thaïs transcend the despairing ardour of Athanaël. Chants of desolation, and later, return of the beautiful violin from an earlier symphonic méditation (first played during the intermezzo when Thaïs had converted) complete the final effect.
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St Arnaud Town Hall The town began an annual festival in 1996, which is held in November every year and includes events such as music concerts, market day, Gopher Grand Prix and numerous exhibitions and displays. The former town hall functions as a community and performing arts space. The St Arnaud Raillery Gallery, located at the refurbished St Arnaud Railway Station in Queens Avenue, has regular revolving exhibitions in various mediums. An arts, crafts and producers' marketspace promotes locally produced items.
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During the contest of Westminster the wits made themselves merry over his frailties. His ‘small beer’ was ridiculed, the ‘unfinished state of his newly fronted house in Pall Mall’ was sneered at,Rolliad, dedication and he provoked much raillery by his proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and to tax maid- servants. Some absurd lines were attributed to him in the ‘Rolliad’,1795, pp. 99, 239 and to him was imputed an irregular ode in the contest for the poet- laureateship.ib. pp. 292–3 A Birmingham Toast, 1791 by James Gillray.
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He also mentioned in his essay that some people see this idea as unrealistic. "There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia, that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or with raillery ... Where, in the name of common-sense, are our fears to end if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbors, our fellow citizens?"(James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist, books.google.com). Hamilton argues to critics who doubt that the militia would be trusted that they forget militia is made up of the people the average citizen would know and trust.
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The affectionate esteem with which Churchyard was regarded by the younger Elizabethan writers is expressed by Thomas Nashe, who says (Foure Letters Confuted) that Churchyard's aged muse might well be "grandmother to our grandiloquentest poets at this present". Francis Meres (Palladis Tamia, 1598) mentions him in conjunction with many great names among "the most passionate, among us, to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love". Spenser, in "Colin Clout's Come Home Again", calls him with a spice of raillery "old Palaemon" who "sung so long until quite hoarse he grew". His writings, with the exception of his contributions to the Mirror for Magistrates, are chiefly autobiographical in character or deal with the wars in which he had a share.
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The spectre "placed the shaving-bib round his neck" and proceeds to remove all hair from Franz's head. Sensing that the spectre wants something, Franz "beckoned the phantom to seat himself in the chair", after which Franz shaves the spectre. The ghost had been a barber during his life, whose lord would play "all sorts of malicious tricks" on strangers, including preparing a bath for guests, then having the barber shave guests beards and heads closely before suddenly throwing them out "with raillery and ridicule". One victim, a holy man, cursed the ghost to haunt the castle until someone "without being invited or constrained, shall do to you, what you have so long done to others".
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The spectre "placed the shaving-bib round his neck" and proceeds to remove all hair from Francis's head. Sensing that the spectre wants something, Francis "beckoned the phantom to seat himself in the chair", after which Francis shaves the spectre. The ghost had been a barber during his life, whose lord would play "all sorts of malicious tricks" on strangers, including preparing a bath for guests, then having the barber shave guests beards and heads closely before suddenly throwing them out "with raillery and ridicule". One victim, a holy man, cursed the ghost to haunt the castle until someone "without being invited or constrained, shall do to you, what you have so long done to others".
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Originally sung at village harvest-home rejoicing, they made their way into the towns, and became the fashion at religious festivals and private gatherings, especially weddings, to which in later times they were practically restricted. They were usually in the Saturnine metre and took the form of a dialogue consisting of an interchange of extemporaneous raillery. Those who took part in them wore masks made of the bark of trees. At first harmless and good-humored, if somewhat coarse, these songs gradually outstripped the bounds of decency; malicious attacks were made upon both gods and men, and the matter became so serious that the law intervened and scurrilous personalities were forbidden by the Twelve Tables (Cicero, De re publica, 4.10; see also Horace epist. 2.1.139).
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The father of Byzantine satire is Lucian. His celebrated "Dialogues of the Dead" furnished the model for two works, one of which, the "Timarion" (12th century) is marked by more rude humour, the other, "Mazaris" (15th century), by keen satire. Each describes a journey to the underworld and conversations with dead contemporaries; in the former their defects are lashed with good-natured raillery; in the latter, under the masks of dead men, living persons and contemporary conditions, especially at the Byzantine Court, are sharply stigmatized. The former is more a literary satire, the latter a political pamphlet, with keen personal thrusts and without literary value, but with all the greater interest for the history of civilization; the former is in a genuinely popular tone, the latter in vulgar and crude [Cf.
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A Balloon Route excursion car, 1905 In response to the raillery occasioned by the play, a "big advertising excursion" took place on Thursday, May 30, 1912, via a special train of three chartered electric railway cars. The route was scheduled over the Balloon Route by way of Los Angeles, Hollywood, the Soldiers' Home, Ocean Park, Venice, Redondo, Gardena and back to Watts. The object of the excursion was to call attention "to the fact that Watts has been 'born again,' and the name 'Lucky Watts' will be used as much as possible, the idea being to get new ideas into people's heads, so they will get away from the notion that there is any joke about what the people here believe is the most promising suburban community in the county." Some 25,000 pieces of advertising material were distributed.
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He was so logical and so quick to grasp a > situation, that he would often cut short exposition by some forcible remark > or personal raillery that would all too often quite disconcert the speaker. > Despite his adventurous career, mere reminiscences obviously bored him; he > was always for movement, for some betterment of present or future > conditions, and in discussion he was a master of the art of persuasion, > unconsciously creating in those around him a latent desire to follow, if he > would lead. The source of such persuasive influence eludes analysis, and, > like the mystery of leadership, is probably more psychic than mental. In > this latter respect, Jameson was splendidly equipped; he had greater power > of concentration, of logical reasoning, and of rapid diagnosis, while on his > lighter side he was brilliant in repartee and in the exercise of a badinage > that was both cynical and personal... ... He wrapped himself in cynicism as > with a cloak, not only to protect himself against his own quick human > sympathy, but to conceal the austere standard of duty and honour that he > always set to himself.
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