The familiar wonder and mirthfulness of his voice has a note of rueful loss.
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So let's visualize those phrenology skulls mapping distinct faculties in the brain, the ones that spur chastity, sympathy, philanthropy, philoprogenitiveness, mirthfulness, sincerity, grace, morality, generosity, kindness, benevolence.
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An air of youth, and of jocund life, of zest and of mirthfulness came in with Jack, inevitably calling up smiles to meet him.
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The original south facing Buddha (called the Kassapa) has a unique architectural display, as, when it is viewed from close quarters depicts a sad look. However, the same image viewed from a distance gives an expression of mirthfulness. The east and west facing Buddha images are made in the later Konbaung or Mandalay style. The east-facing image of Buddha (known as 'Kongamana') is shown holding, between the thumb and middle finger, a small nutlike sphere – a herb.
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According to scholar Nathalia Wright, the style of Psalms is imitated in the passage where Pierre and Lucy one morning ride into the country, which is described in the manner of "a prose paean which has many of the characteristics of a Hebrew poem": :Oh, praised be the beauty of this earth; the beauty, and the bloom, and the mirthfulness thereof! The first worlds made were winter worlds; the second made, were vernal worlds; the third, and last, and perfectest, was this summer world of ours. In the cold and nether spheres preachers preach of earth, as we of Paradise above. Oh, there, my friends, they say, they have a season, in their language known as summer.
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Harry Cavendish calls the novel "possibly ... the author's most breezily amusing venture into fictionizing classical lore," in which "[c]omic opera attacks and nocturnal ambushes abound ... There obviously is a lot of fictional hocus-pocus in all this, but there's also a shimmering mirthfulness in the writing.""Lore of Antiquity Juggled Dexterously," Chicago Daily Tribune, December 10, 1961, p. E3. Martin Levin characterizes the book as "a gore-spattered delight with a nod to archaeological deduction, Herodotus, Pliny and perhaps Edgar Rice Burroughs. ... An antiquarian as well as a science-fiction writer, Mr. De Camp seasons this full-bodied adventure novel with masses of ancient lore and an educated zest for exotic geography.""A Reader's Report on Five Current Titles," The New York Times, December 10, 1961, p. BR48.
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Then their fields spin themselves green carpets; snow and ice are not in all the land; then a million strange, bright, fragrant things powder that sward with perfumes; and high majestic beings, dumb and grand, stand up with outstretched arms, and hold their green canopies over merry angels--men and women--who love and wed, and sleep and dream, beneath the approving glances of their visible god and goddess, glad-hearted sun, and pensive moon! :Oh, praised be the beauty of this earth; the beauty, and the bloom, and the mirthfulness thereof. We lived before, and shall live again; and as we hope for a fairer world than this to come; so we came from one less fine. From each successive world, the demon Principle is more and more dislodged; he is the accursed clog from chaos, and thither, by every new translation, we drive him further and further back again.
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" Entertainment Weekly writer Mikael Wood found that none of the tracks on the record "reproduces the dizzy rush" of the group's biggest song "Laid", however, "several cuts get surprisingly close." In a review for The Independent, Dominic Horner said as far as reunion records "go Hey Ma is more than adequate, and for fans of the band there is much to like." Hot Press Olaf Tyaransen called it a "[w]elcome return to form" for the group, though "not much has changed" with the album, "but if it ain't broke, don't fix it." musicOMH editor Ben Hogwood said that it was " clear this isn't a return with an eye on the cash till … they have fire in their belly and music to stoke it with, and it shows in the depth of emotion unleashed by this album." Pitchfork writer Joshua Klein said the group attempted to tackle their "crowd-pleasing roots and their subsequent experiments" at once with a "renewed sense of mirthfulness that cuts through much of the pretension.
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