Scientists have begun decoding the complex badinage between cactuses and pollinating bats.
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The bidding and the badinage was "his own form of daytime cabaret," said Angus Wilkie, an antiques dealer.
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Whether she helps or hinders her argument by citing the dream-centric badinage of the Rarámuri tribe of northwestern Mexico is debatable.
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You'll find beatings, shootouts, car crashes, awkward analogies and a measure of buddy badinage in "Bright," but true enchantment is in short supply.
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The creators of "War Paint" appreciate the pulpy appeal of such cinematic fare, in which exaggerated artificial surfaces and badinage conceal ravenous ambition and broken hearts.
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In the book, the place is called Itchingford, and Lyndsey includes some badinage between her and Pete when he first tells her the name of the town where he lives.
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Of all those who have tackled Churchill onscreen, the majority tend to weight their words as though even badinage were an oration, but this new Churchill, sotto voce, dithers and huffs.
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In the past week, Lauren Naturale, a onetime college English instructor who writes the Merriam-Webster tweets, has become a media darling thanks to her wry and pointed posts, which include playful badinage.
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In the rowdy badinage of Parliament, leaving the European Union often seems a purely domestic issue in which nostalgia for empire, political ambition and British pride largely exclude any thought of European Union interests or other realities.
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Without any possible confusion Harald Wolff's artistic research is recognizable: he mixes and associates vague silhouettes in a light badinage, « gestic » of chromatic lines and violence of drawings.
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A good-humoured man - Cicero wrote of sending him "badinage in your own style"D R Shackleton Bailey trans., Cicero's Letters to his Friends (Atlanta 1988) p. 89 ad fam. vii.14 \- Trebatius was featured by Horace as a learned adviser in his Satires.
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The book was reviewed favourably by Punch in August 1914. The reviewer called the stories "agreeable nonsense", in which the narrator "apparently could not go out for the simplest walk without meeting some amiable young woman, divinely fair and supernaturally witty, with whom he presently exchanged airy badinage".
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The arrangements were usually supplied by the aforementioned Peter Packay and David Bee. And then there was the classically trained musician Frank Engelen, an excellent guitarist but also a well respected composer and arranger. He wrote notable compositions such as 'Badinage', 'Bagatelle ', 'La Piste', 'Avondschemering' (Twilight) and 'Studio 24'.
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Student groups and activities include literary study group, conversationalist study group, ”skillful hands” study group, dance study group, computer studies, and tourism study group. The attendance of the school traditions is one of the most important resort of the school's badinage. Therefore, the school deliberately cultivates, keeps and improves the different traditions. It is very important for the school to organize various public programs which can develop the community.
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Son of a lawyer, and nephew of a doctor, Picard refused to follow the careers of law and medicine, and dedicated himself to the theater encouraged by his friend François Andrieux. He first became an actor before producing his first play, Le Badinage dangereux, in 1789. Picard worked with the Comédiens-Italiens. In 1807 Picard was received by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre when he was elected to the Académie française.
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Catius's spectrum is equivalent to simulacrum in Lucretius,Miriam T. Griffin, "Philosophical Badinage," in Cicero the Philosopher, p. 295. but the term spectrum does not appear again in Latin until the 17th century and must represent Catius's attempt to create a specialized vocabulary.David Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 39 online; Robert D. Brown, Lucretius on Love and Sex (Brill, 1987), p.
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PC Phil Young never really fitted in at Sun Hill. He was too sensitive for the rough and tumble of station life, and couldn't really join in the comic badinage that helps keep officers going in tough times. When he arrived at the station he was Sun Hill's youngest Constable, and lack of experience didn't help in his work there. Phil began to crack up when he found the body of a fifteen-year-old who had killed himself.
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Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly rated the series a C+ and called it "one of the season's vaguest, most ambivalent new sitcoms". Tucker described the casting of "odd- couple lovers" Urich and Dunaway as "almost perversely capricious". Tony Scott, reviewing the pilot in Variety, criticized the "thin script" and "lumpy badinage". Noting that the show would premiere with a special "preview glimpse" in the slot after 60 Minutes, Scott concluded that "a glimpse should be enough".
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Nathaniel Wraxall wrote of Fitzpatrick, "His person, tall, manly, and extremely distinguished; set off by his manners, which, though lofty and assuming, were nevertheless elegant and prepossessing; – these endowments added grace to the attractions of his conversation. No man's society was more eagerly courted among the highest Orders, by persons of both sexes."Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of my Own Time, p. 347. Horace Walpole described Fitzpatrick as "an agreeable young man of parts", and mentioned his "genteel irony and badinage".
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One edition published by the University of California Press was translated into English by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton, K.B.E. with Cyril Birch collaborating.Acton, p. vii. Birch wrote that the University of California Press translation is "complete except for a very few places". Portions translated included what Birch described as "the contrasting low punning and bawdy badinage," the scholars' formal compliments and greetings, "high poetry" within the songs, and self-introduction speeches and soliloquies described by Birch as "sometimes rather stiff".
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Cicero prods Cassius about his new philosophy, and jokes about spectra Catiana ("Catian apparitions"), that is, the εἴδωλα or material images which were supposed by the Epicureans to present themselves to the mind and to call up the idea of absent objects: Although Cicero's purpose is ridicule, the passage is an important source for understanding the Epicurean theory of vision.Miriam T. Griffin, "Philosophical Badinage in Cicero's Letters to His Friends," in Cicero the Philosopher, edited by J.G.F. Powell (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 343 online.
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Cosby also occasionally slipped in bits of his comic routines during his improvised badinage with Culp. (In one episode Scott, being interrogated under the influence of drugs, says his name is Fat Albert.) Many details of Cosby's life were also written into his character. Scott does not drink or smoke—while Kelly Robinson does both. There are frequent references to Scott's childhood in Philadelphia and attending Temple University (Cosby is sometimes seen wearing his own Temple sweatshirt), and in the "Cops and Robbers" episode, Scotty returns home to Philadelphia to revisit his old neighborhood.
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Among the bystanders were quick to observe this, and > indulged in a little badinage at the expense of the steersman. Some time was > spent in cruising about midstream, and the head of the Koonya was turned > northward, and after proceeding up the river some little distance it was > resolved to return and run the measured mile accordingly the boat was headed > down stream, and with 1001b. of steam on it was found that she ran the > distance in 6min. 5sec, or at the rate of nearly 10 miles per hour.
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Variety called it "incredulous and wearisome tale" and wondered how it had gotten approval from Universal. The New York Times review said the film was a "collection of babble clues, butlers at windows and gloomy manses, mysterious messages, stupid policemen, leers by Lionel Atwill and matrimonial badinage ... most of which is beside the point." The Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide calls the film a "fast-paced whodunit" but "not particularly puzzling." Tom Weaver, Micheal and John Brunas appreciated the on-screen chemistry between Gwynne and Knowles, but thought that Atwill, "in the reddest of red herring roles", was wasted.
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Bucharest: Universul, 1936 He continued to publish standalone booklets and volumes, either as himself or under the pen name Cyrano: Strofe și apostrofe ("Stanzas and Apostrophes", 1900), Ahturi și ofuri ("Aahs and Oohs", 1901), Eu rîd, tu rîzi, el rîde ("I Laugh, You Laugh, He Laughs", 1903). In its original edition, Ahturi și ofuri carried a preface by Ranetti's colleague and mentor, the recently deceased Tony. From 1901 to 1904, Ranetti edited the satirical paper Zeflemeaua ("Badinage"), for which he used Cyrano, Jorj Delamizil, and a set of other pen names—Cyr, Ghiță, Ghiță Delacoperativă, Peneș, Putifar, V. V. Rița, and Kiriac Napadarjan (or N'a pas d'argent). The paper also delved in investigative journalism, and its stated mission was to expose cases of corruption.
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"Knock knock" was the catchphrase of music hall performer Wee Georgie Wood, who was recorded in 1936 saying it in a radio play, but he simply used the words as a reference to his surname and did not use it as part of the well-known joke formula. The format was well known in the UK and US in the 1950s and 1960s before falling out of favor. It then enjoyed a renaissance after the jokes became a regular part of the badinage on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. According to the World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, published by Chelsea House, New York and London 1980, cartoonist Bob Dunn "invented the Knock Knock joke in a million selling book" distributed by Whitman Publishing in 1936.
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" Chris Barsanti, Contactmusic.com: "A rather hysterical oddity that can't decide what era it's set in or what mood to play, Piccadilly Jim just chucks it all at the screen and hopes that some wit will come through and generate some laughs. … Careening from full-throttle farce to light-hearted badinage to earnest romance, there's no unified tone, and with the addition of pointless anachronisms (although the general look is the 1930s, there are some additions like modern automobiles and torch singers belting out new wave tunes) it just seems like a big old mess. In the midst of all this atonal turmoil, a good number of cast members are doing their game best to have a good time, and it shows.
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Held at the Churchill Archives Centre Churchill was, as appears from the diaries, fond of Colville, and, from reading the published diaries, it is apparent that Colville was close to the rest of the Churchill family. When Churchill was ill with pneumonia, it was Colville who was summoned from his brief stint of active service in the RAF to accompany Clementine Churchill on an aeroplane to Egypt to visit him, although it was clear on their arrival that Churchill's life was not in danger. Typical of the badinage between Churchill and his private secretary was the exchange when, immediately before Colville's departure for RAF service in 1941, Churchill asked him his age. On being told, Churchill pointed out that, at 26, Napoleon was commanding the armies of Italy.
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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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