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Still in a larky mood, she began to lift her daughter up off the floor.
"You know, we're a larky pair; we do like life in Paris."
He put his hands on his hips and gave me a kind of larky look.
Pram-pushing's slow but on fine days it's a good place, full or larky boys.
Here on the farm it is clear that he is a lovely, larky boy, but one in need of support and respite.
I'm doing rather a larky manslaughter tomorrow.
Larky jaunts to the back of beyond returned to fashion with the 1980s boom in travel writing.
Death is much funnier than usual in this larky novel about a dying couple and most of their loony relatives.
The actress is unable to be totally convincing in her quick pretense of old age, but she does capture the character's larky spirit.
It's a larky mess.
Medrich began making and selling truffles in the same larky spirit as a 10-year-old setting up a lemonade stand.
In the 80's, his feature films had a larky mood, a loose frame and a fondness for kitschy Americana.
"Franzen likes his fiction smart and larky, with glimpses of scary depths."
"He gave me his recording of this short story, which was the most delightful, larky, kick-up-your heels story," she said.
Most of his experience came from hypnotizing his friends-classroom exercises that were larky and occasionally spooky.
In his 23d novel, Vidal offers a larky and thought-provoking excursion through American history.
A curious thing happened: the drive for novelty brought the peripheral genres, the larky impulse rentals, to the center, while marginalizing the classics.
I dug the larky sense of fun in these early scenes, but what Lefcourt really excels at is comic escalation.
It had a difficult-to-hit quality about it, an almost larky imperviousness to attempting to interfere with it.
"A larky sort of a boy says that, Mum, and we skip the parts where they describe what they saw in the different countries," cried Will.
As their son James recalled: "When she met my father she was larky, jolly and vibrant, like a naughty girl in the sixth form.
Joseph Cedar's half larky, half dead heavy Israeli intellectual comedy looks like a good punt for the screenplay prize.
However, Graham reasoned that the film has "rough edges", despite conceding that "they probably work to this larky, cheeky picture's advantage".
Last year, we had "The Woman and the Ape," his larky new novel about a woman who runs off with a talking ape.