- A joke is a
display of
humour in
which words are used
within a
specific and well-defined
narrative structure to make
people laugh and is
usually not meant...
- The
phrase Jesting Pilate can be: a
phrase coined by
Francis Bacon in the
opening sentence of his
essay Of
Truth (read at Wikisource) a name for the Biblical...
- The
mythographer Apollodorus says that Iambe's
jesting was the
reason for the
practice of
ritual jesting at the Thesmophoria, a
festival celebrated in...
- The All-Joking, All-Drunken
Synod of
Fools and
Jesters (1692–1725) was a club
founded by
Peter I of Russia. The
group included many of Peter's closest...
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earliest known usage.
Aldous Huxley's book
Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, "What is Truth? said
jesting Pilate; and
would not stay for an answer", from...
- award, stating: "What
McGowan failed to take into
consideration was the
jesting manner in
which Jenner spoke." Tam said: [Jenner] also
immediately followed...
-
Retrieved November 15, 2020. Dargis,
Manohla (April 12, 2012). "Wry and
Subtle Jesting? Not Here,
Knucklehead (Published 2012)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
- A
political cartoon from 1787
jesting about the
notion of
taxation affecting prostitutes...
- a
derivation from barathrum,
because they, so to speak,
carried their jesting to market, even into the very
depth (barathrum) of the
shambles (barathrum...
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maintaining a playful,
irreverent tone
throughout the night,
whether it was
jesting about Cate Blanchett's
versatility or
watching Lawrence of
Arabia on an...