• Merriment is a 2000 album by Vic Chesnutt. The album is a collaborative effort between Georgia-based musicians Chesnutt and Kelly and Nikki Keneipp, with...
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  • Big Little Lies is an American black comedy drama television series based on the 2014 novel by Liane Moriarty. Created and written by David E. Kelley,...
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    Gregorian calendar. Rongker also called Dehal is an annual winter festival of merriment celebrated by the Karbi people of Assam. It is observed in order to appease...
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    the deceased will remain with the family to enjoy a day of feasting and merriment. Acclaimed Sicilian author Andrea Camilleri recounts his Giorno dei Morti...
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  • they attempt to wait out the plague in the hills of Tuscany with wine, merriment, and sex, the protagonists eventually must fight for their survival. Amar...
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    balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all." In the same year, lang released Hymns of the 49th Parallel...
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    himself for small Earnings and good Cheer at Festivals and other Days of Merriment; the Ilias he wrote for men, and the Odysseis for the other Sex. These...
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    been transferred, in recent years, from then Hallowe'en, to increase merriment and fundraising on the latter. He got round this problem by asserting...
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    Christmas Carol, which helped revive the "spirit" of Christmas and seasonal merriment. Its instant popularity played a major role in portraying Christmas as...
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    for his BBC2 programme Stephen Fry: Out There. In an episode of QI, "M-Merriment", originally broadcast in December 2015, Fry was awarded membership of...
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    hilarity and the most perfect good humour; never diverging into ungraceful merriment, and yet keeping up the spirit of liveliness throughout the evening."...
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  • tacent clamant, lit. 'when they are silent, they cry out'), "melancholy merriment" (Byron), "faith unfaithful", "falsely true" (Tennyson), "conventionally...
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    will eat the meat of the Behemoth and the Leviathan amid great joy and merriment." In the Haggadah, Behemoth's strength reaches its peak on the summer...
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    Fifty Shades Uncovered (2015) – Contributor QI – Series M, Episode 8 "Merriment" – (25 December 2015) – Panellist Taskmaster – Series 15 (30 March to...
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    conversation between Molotov and Stalin only lasted five minutes, the merriment of the gathering evaporated as everybody talked in hushed tones. Amba...
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    Evangelist). Great agricultural fairs used to be held at this time, along with merriment and dancing. A bonfire was also kept this night. With the advent of non-conformist...
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    parries, sudden questions, in his low-voiced pathos and his resounding merriment, he is identical with the ideal fireside chronicler. And thoroughly to...
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    restricted to a community or tribe — the whole state populace participates in merriment. On 1 November of every year, the state declared holiday for Kut celebration...
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    Macbeth invites his lords and Lady Macbeth to a night of drinking and merriment. Banquo's ghost enters and sits in Macbeth's place. Macbeth raves fearfully...
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  • Some protesters lobbed the canisters back at the Guard to the crowd's merriment. The crowd also began to chant "Pigs off campus". Another demand to disperse...
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    after the war. The Nazis allowed and even encouraged an atmosphere of merriment, going so far as to recruit prisoners for a choir at gunpoint. Many prisoners...
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    stood pointing like the Bristles of a Hedge-Hog; and gave such Life and Merriment to a Parcel of Needles, that they danc'd [...] as if the devil were in...
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  • Galant, an ideal of upper-class grandiose or high living and refined merriment that arose in the Baroque period Proper behaviour in upper-class social...
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    his wife, the fomentor of treason, was hanged by her feet, causing much merriment and jeers from Hugh's soldiers as her clothes fell downwards revealing...
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    candies and other treats. The vigour of the dancing and degree of festive merriment varies with congregational temperament. In Orthodox synagogues, men and...
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  • "but it also has a nonsensical glaze that contributes to the inadvertent merriment" and "it tends to be enjoyably silly". She concluded, "Nestor Almendros's...
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  • makes Temple's anxiety as immediate and contagious as her rarer bursts of merriment... And as the character ages and learns more social graces, Ms. Danes...
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    December 2023. N. Trisha (14 March 2016). "St Patrick's Day Celebrated with Merriment over Four Days". The Star. Retrieved 14 March 2016. Jeremy Tan (9 October...
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    fastidious. Aron noted that Yeltsin could be "an inexhaustible fount of merriment, exuberance and hospitality" among his friends. Evaluations of Yeltsin...
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    black comedy The Trouble with Harry, adding: "I haven't had this kind of merriment since King Kong toppled from the Empire State Building". The Monthly Film...
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