- 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...
- a
derivation from barathrum,
because they, so to speak,
carried their jesting to market, even into the very
depth (barathrum) of the
shambles (barathrum...
- A
political cartoon from 1787
jesting about the
notion of
taxation affecting prostitutes...
- award, stating: "What
McGowan failed to take into
consideration was the
jesting manner in
which Jenner spoke." Tam said: [Jenner] also
immediately followed...
-
maintaining a playful,
irreverent tone
throughout the night,
whether it was
jesting about Cate Blanchett's
versatility or
watching Lawrence of
Arabia on an...
-
After Parliament had been dissolved,
Cromwell wrote a
letter to a friend,
jesting about the session's lack of productivity: I
amongst other have indured...
-
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...
- mock
implausible word
origins such as
those proposed by Priscian. It is a
jesting suggestion that
since the word
lucus (dark grove) has a
similar appearance...
-
Summa Theologica,
Aquinas made it the
virtue of
moderation in
relation to
jesting. By the
second half of
thirteenth century, the
concept was
considered a...
