Word: joviality
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Conjure an image of Australia in your mind, and you’re likely envision bouncing kangaroos and jovial tank-topped men throwing “another shrimp on the barbie.” You might like to think again. This past weekend saw racially charged riots break out in southern Sydney at a popular surfing spot in North Cronulla, resulting in attacks on police and ambulance workers as well as the destruction of over 100 vehicles. Adding insult to injury, the riots also unveiled Australia’s embarrassing secret: a deep-seated racial intolerance, normally hidden behind...
...ultimate ruler of Narnia who returns to rescue it from the oppression of the White Witch.Aslan is Narnia’s savior. Jacobs appears to attribute a similar, if not quite as extensive, power to Lewis himself. His description of Lewis as larger-than-life, deeply kind and perennially jovial strays eerily close to reverence. It is Lewis, bounding into the lives of his readers, who teaches them to imagine and to truly feel delight. If Jacobs doesn’t want to deify Lewis, he certainly wishes to canonize him. Chronicling the richness Lewis found in his whimsical visions...
Moments before opposition parties voted to bring down Canada's minority Government Monday night with a vote of no-confidence, the mood in the House of Commons took a jovial turn: The Speaker, Peter Milliken, rose in his black robes to announce that an all-party reception would follow the vote to allow Parliamentarians to "exchange season's greetings." The invitation elicited loud guffaws, because everyone knew it was a dark joke. The only thing seasonal about greetings between the ruling Liberal Party and its main, Conservative opposition has been the frostiness of the exchanges. And now the two sides...
...another unglamorous couple with a lot to work out. But on a June night -- after, Lorena later claimed, John had raped her -- she cut off his penis. The organ was surgically reattached, and all's well that ends in media bewitchment: John, acquitted of the rape, appears as a jovial guest on the Howard Stern Show, while Lorena, whose case is still pending, has become something of a feminist folk hero...
...details the budding romance between Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar, and Boonyi Kaur, his future wife and India’s future mother. Rushdie’s lush descriptions of the fertile valleys and formidable mountains of Kashmir lure the reader into the gorgeous terrain and the jovial lifestyle of the villagers of Pachigam before the various occupations of the contested land and religious polarity became law. Though the reader does not yet know that Boonyi is India’s mother, the strained way that Shalimar looks at India when they meet in the first section...