Apart from journalese and vaudeville gags, the anatomical is also found in jocular literature.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

Guising is devoid of any jocular threat.

There is a significant difference from the way the practice has developed in North America with the jocular threat.

Baʿal ul bayt in modern Levantine Arabic is widely used to mean the head of the household, literally ' Master of the House ' and has a somewhat jocular, semi-mocking connotation.

In this usage, the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style ; although jocular, it is usually respectful.

" Fruit machine " is a jocular term for a device developed in Canada that was supposed to be able to identify homosexual people, or " fruits.

Rivalry between Australia and allies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand is friendly and jocular in nature, as Australians often view these nations as members of an Anglosphere cultural tradition which has significant overlap with their own.

Because of the block's presence, Cinemax is most commonly given the jocular nickname outside the network, " Skinemax ".

Also, whereas Paddy is often used in a jocular context or incorporated into mournful pro-Irish sentiment ( i. e. the songs Poor Paddy On The Railway and Paddy's Lament ), the term Taig remains a slur in almost every context.

* Turtles all the way down is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the " unmoved mover " paradox

The jocular word mugwump, noted as early as 1832, is from Algonquian ( Natick ) mugquomp, " important person, kingpin " ( from mugumquomp, " war leader ") implying that they were " sanctimonious " or " holier-than-thou ," in holding themselves aloof from party politics.

Citing Leno's larger audience and earlier time slot, Fletcher agreed to appear on The Tonight Show, where he presented Leno with a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and traded jocular barbs about the relative advantages of Kentucky and Los Angeles where The Tonight Show is filmed.

" Turtles all the way down " is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the " unmoved mover " paradox.

Cartoon physics is a jocular system of laws of physics that supersedes the normal laws, used in animation for humorous effect.

* Lo Fat-Lo Fat is the jocular, Chinese-American owner of Lo Fat's Laundry ; a Chinese laundromat in New York City.

Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe " seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects.

The term comedy of menace, which British drama critic Irving Wardle based on the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace ( 1958 ), by David Campton, is a jocular play-on-words derived from the " comedy of manners " ( menace being manners pronounced with a somewhat Judeo-English accent ).

However, in American English the-ess suffix is only marginally morphologically productive, and the-ette suffix can indicate a feminine version of a noun without a change in size ( though many such words in-ette were intended to be jocular when they were first coined ).

The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description.

The term " Herman the German " is also commonly used by English speakers as an affectionate name for the Hermannsdenkmal-and also as a jocular term for ( male ) Germans in general.

The " War of the Whiskers " ( c. 1152 – 1453 ) is a jocular term for the long conflict between medieval France and England, referring to the refusal of Louis VII of France to shave his newly acquired taste for a beard ( i. e. " whiskers ") he had grown while fighting during the Crusades.

Rarely, the term is used as a jocular, possibly slightly flattering description.

Although the term with its current meaning has sometimes had negative connotations and sometimes jocular connotations, in recent years its pejorative qualities have lessened so " bimbo " is now often used as a more neutral, or even friendly, term.

It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

It is a mistake to look upon the Oedipus of Oedipus Complex as a literary descendant of Oedipus Rex.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.

This angle of just where the Orioles can look for improvement this year is an interesting one.

Possibly responsible for this is the incoming trend toward multicolor schemes in rooms, which seems slated to replace the one-color look to which we have been accustomed.

There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.

The transducer itself moves the beam in a sector scan, just like a radar antenna, while the entire transducer structure is moved over a 90-degree arc in front of the eye to `` look into '' all corners.

Perhaps the best way to indicate the versatility of design that characterizes the use of plastics in signs and displays would be to look at what is happening in only one of the areas in this complex field -- changeable signs.

`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.

In the notation of the proof of Theorem 12, let us take a look at the special case in which the minimal polynomial for T is a product of first-degree polynomials, i.e., the case in which each Af is of the form Af.

Each dictionary form is looked up in the text-form list by the same method used to look up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading.

This is simply a confession of intellectual sterility spruced up to look virtuous.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

Malocclusion, or a bad fit, is what parents need to look out for.