| His voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. |
| But despite his forced jocularity, desultory attempts at humour, and spurts of nervous energy, Obree is a husk of heroism past. |
| Bartending is about banter and jocularity, but it is also often about maintaining a cautious eye, and to some extent, babysitting. |
| Not that the jocularities were inane beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so. |
| The jocularities referred to have no interest to the solemn, imperturbable Mule save when he is an object of their malevolence. |
| Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything. |
