jokiness

When I get good and scared, my first reaction is always a sort of light-headed jokiness.

In fact, its jokiness ensured that the racist themes were part of the fun.

Several of the models and objects on view are mired in Surrealist jokiness.

But then, after about 45 minutes of this predictable hokey jokiness, something magical happens.

This sophomoric lewdness and broad jokiness are not entirely without reason.

And despite the mild jokiness of his "trends are the new trend" remark, he's not exactly kidding.

No post-modern jokiness will do for her.

Its free-floating jokiness and discontinuity for its own sake soon become irritating.

At first it's banal and random, the information without particular consequence and characterized mostly by a desperate jokiness.

Mr. Esbjornson's production occasionally flirts with a dangerous, self-conscious jokiness.

Unlike some of her colleagues who have illusions of being humorists, she shuns jokiness.

With Arpee, Self takes these devices further than usual, at times sacrificing meaning for jokiness.

It's hard to remember how threatening the Beatles were, with their irresistible jokiness, their insistence on the primacy of youth.

A strangely off-key jokiness doesn't help, either.

Surely one interest in reading "Florence of Arabia" is discovering what all this nervous jokiness is about.

With its kaleidoscopic moods and vaudevillian jokiness, "Freak Out!"

The film's leaden jokiness is magnified by having in the cast actors who telegraph that they are in on the joke.

The remaining outlet for sardonic jokiness is the show's presumably tongue-in-cheek title: "Painter of Light."

Rarely does Finnamore suspend jokiness for tough, lyrical revelation in this way - and, sure enough, the next sentence involves a riff on diapers.

The mixture of jokiness and blood never feels cheap--it adds to the movie's theme, which is horrified estrangement from one's own humanity.

His naturally high-pitched voice gives even Butley's most agonizing exclamations a hint of desperate jokiness; the laughter he evokes is almost always the nervous kind.

It takes what must be taken seriously very seriously indeed, but it is full of jokiness and knowing nods and winks to theatrical convention, too.

The director and choreographer, Drew Scott Harris, tends to indulge the hardy-har-har jokiness of the creators rather than smarten it.

"Ho-Tep," which opens today in Manhattan, also falls back on the antic, self-conscious jokiness of a Mad magazine movie parody.