Jesting

What’s engaging about Giamatti, who teams up with Payne for the first time since “Sideways” (2004), is that such reactionary resignation is voiced with a soft sigh and a dab of jesting levity.

Occasionally, his self-jesting becomes the perfect retort to an insensitive visitor, fortunately a rare type.

He also had an entertainer’s subtle edge, a jesting streak that hit like electricity when it was activated.

Alcuin soon found himself on intimate terms with Charlemagne and the other men at court, where pupils and masters were known by affectionate and jesting nicknames. citation Alcuin himself was known as 'Albinus' or 'Flaccus'.

Both would appear in later collections (with "The Last Enchantment" occasionally retitled "Jesting with Chaos").

It was the topic of much jesting.

The portmanteau "Kripkenstein" has been coined as a jesting nickname for Kripke's reading of the Philosophical Investigations.

Third tale (VI, 3) Monna Nonna de' Pulci by a ready retort silences the scarce seemly jesting of the Bishop of Florence.