jolly, semiquaver, friend or foe, quaver, drawl, act out

We Have to Act Out Our Freedom’: Protesters Hit Streets in Hong Kong

By Cora Engelbrecht and Ainara Tiefenthäler

Hong Kong police invoked Beijing’s new security law for the first time to arrest protesters on the anniversary of the city’s handover to China.

Day in the Life of a Girl
Norman Rockwell
August 30, 1952

Rockwell said he enjoyed working with 9-year-old Mary Whalen, who “could look sad one minute, jolly the next, and raise her eyebrows until they almost jumped over her head.”

“He was very inclusive; he wasn’t authoritarian, telling me what to do,” Mary says. “It was, ‘OK, this is what we’re going to do today.’ He would act it out for me.

“I was reserved and he would just sort of pull [the expressions] out of me by laughing or clapping or stomping his feet or jumping up and down and making me laugh, that kind of thing. And I just felt such a part of what was happening. As a kid, I liked to be a part of something. He knew what he wanted and he knew how to get that out of you. And then when he got [the right expression], he would just shout, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful! That’s wonderful!’”

For the 1952 cover, A Day in the Life of a Girl, Mary gave Rockwell over 20 wonderful expressions.

More than 5,400 people have signed a petition calling for a sculpture of a devil to be scrapped because it looks too jolly.

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Statue's face 'too friendly for Satan'

“I'd rather be myself, he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
―Bernard Marx from BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

Proof that you should get a life: a new paper shows that reducing working hours can be good for productivity http://econ.st/1ww708Q

Proof that you should get a life

DO YOU work too much? Last year we wrote a jolly piece that found an interesting correlation between working hours and output. With higher working hours, labour...

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But he was no radical. He seldom got mad at anyone, hugely regretting any loss of his “sense of balance”. His soft, slow plainsman’s drawl held just the slightest quaver of emotion.

She walked upon the grass,
Still quavering.



Is tech friend or foe to Santa Claus?

By Leanne Italie, Associated Press

Updated 10h 33m ago

• NEW YORK – Kids can video chat with Santa, follow him on Twitter or enlist NORAD to track his every move online. And yet in many ways, technology may be making it harder for parents to keep their children believing in the jolly old elf.

Practically any schoolchild can type "Is Santa real?" into Google. And just a few clicks can bring youngsters to websites that sell customized letters from the North Pole or offer advice on how Mom and Dad can fool the kids into believing in old St. Nick.

The Vancouver Games: A Gold in Drinking

By Sean Gregory

Vancouver has been overrun with jolly, intoxicated fans

act out   (…を)身ぶりで表わす、実行に移す、無意識に行動に表わす、行動化する

— phrasal verb with act verb

UK 

 /ækt/ US 

 /ækt/

US

to behave badly because you are unhappy or upset , often in ways that you are not aware of:

These kids act out because their lives are a mess.

jolly

adj., -li·er, -li·est.

1. Full of good humor and high spirits.
2. Exhibiting or occasioning happiness or mirth; cheerful: a jolly tune.
3. Greatly pleasing; enjoyable: had a jolly time.

adv. Chiefly British
To a great extent or degree; extremely.


v., -lied, -ly·ing, -lies. v.tr.
To keep amused or diverted for one's own purposes; humor.

v.intr.
To amuse oneself with humorous banter.

n., pl., -lies.

1. Chiefly British. A good or festive time.
2. jollies Slang. Amusement; kicks: However you get your jollies is fine with me.

[Middle English joli, from Old French, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
jollily jol'li·ly adv.
jolliness jol'li·ness n.

quaver[qua・ver]

• 発音記号[kwéivər]

[動](自)

1 わなわなと［ぶるぶる］震える(tremble)

quaver with fright
恐怖でわなわなと震える.

2 〈声・音が〉震える；震え声で言う［歌う］；顫音(せんおん)で歌う, 楽器で顫音を出す(trill).

━━(他)〈歌・音符を〉震え声で歌う；〈言葉を〉震え声［震えた調子］で言う((out, forth)).

━━[名]

1 （特に声の）震え；顫音；震え声, 声を震わせて言うこと.

2 ((英))《音楽》8分音符（((米))eighth note）.Word of the Day:
semiquaver (SEM-ee-kway-vuhr)

noun: In music, a note having the time value of one-sixteenth of a whole note.

Etymology
From Latin semi- (half) + quaver (an eighth note).

Usage
"Synchronising film and music is tough enough in a modern movie, but spare a semiquaver of sympathy for Dmitri Shostakovich." — Conrad Walters; Film and Music Marry as Composer Settles Old Score; The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Nov 5, 2008.