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...Likewise, the film industry with its big marquee openings and studio jollies has cultivated a more acquiescent critical milieu....
...Dove is adamant that it can: “As the piece starts off, you think it’s innocuous and jolly, but then you realise that there are quite big things at stake, things that are worth singing about.”...
...The most surprising thing is how jolly the teachers seem compared to the put-upon ways of my former London colleagues. If they feel stressed, they are very good at hiding it....
...When I finally capitulate, as happened this Tuesday, it’s “a holly, jolly” bloody Christmas every day....
...David C Speedie Charlottesville, VA, US...
...My surprisingly jolly neighbour seemed more worried by his workload than by the hoodlums sent to menace him. Why not train extra staff, I asked?...
...Ms Foges has described how, working with Mr Cameron, she learnt that “lightness” was an essential quality: “Far better to be jolly and vague than earnest and right — marking you out as someone who doesn’...
...Picture the jolly irony of 200 beer bellies chanting “you fat bastard” at the opposition goalkeeper as he prepares to take a goal kick....
...This isn’t a jolly boys’ story about the japes we all had together....
...Lear was emotional and sensitive, yet must have been able to keep up a jolly front to be in such demand....
...Standout episodes have featured the late Robin Williams, who left aside his usually jolly persona to tell Maron about his struggles with depression, while a chat with the comic Louis CK saw the pair of them...
...It’s very busy, very cramped and very jolly....
...ValueAct might have some jolly good insights. Even if it doesn’t, “embrace, disarm and dismiss” is a banner cry that any board under activist attack can rally to....
...Perhaps then it is best to only be selectively jolly this holiday season. Henny.Sender@ft.com Listen to the Alphachat podcast...
...It certainly made a strong case for Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Miserere in C Minor, ZWV57 , an innovative choice with which to open the concert....
...As Warren Buffett hosted the jolly 50th anniversary shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, this weekend, tensions were rising over whether his company could imperil the world’s financial...
...Much more jolly! ● To people who valiantly state they will try “to drink away their headache”: a box of chocolates ● To people who have new and very good jokes: two boxes....
...Lord Bamford admits it is “jolly difficult” for governments to think long term about manufacturing, but says there is a greater awareness compared with a few years ago....
...Then a group of our senators, from both parties, picked up on something the president had said in his speech and declared we jolly well must have immigration reform....
...Do they have the confidence to aim at the C-suite instead? All business training needs an analysis phase that is critical to its success.”...
...He has no teenage bad habits, few friends and a meagre amount of clothes bought at C&A. He has never been to London before....
...It combines an Americanization of the German term of endearment “liebchin” with ‘c’ for concubine. There you have it: Cliebkin....
...The brainy African ex-politician not only has a Plan B, but Plans C, D, E and F....
...Starting with the lament “Woke up in the morning/ Feeling jolly batey./ I was bally annoyed,/ I can tell you, matey,” it worked up to the climactic chorus: “I’ve got those double-barrelled/ Old Etonian/...
...And they still aren’t making it into the “C-suite” – or into executive jobs, as I wish they were still called....
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