raillery in a sentence

Examples

1. He was so logical and so quick to grasp a situation, that he would often cut short exposition by some forcible remark or personal raillery that would all too often quite disconcert the speaker.
2. Originally used to mean " raillery, ridicule, " it softened in time to a sense of " good-humored teasing " or " joking dialogue, merry jesting ."
3. When listeners wanted you in Birkenstocks, you wore heels; when we wanted more " Court and Spark " sweetness, you gave us the social raillery of " The Hissing of Summer Lawns ."
4. Even after the song is ended, the melody lingers on, and you leave the theater tipsy on Shakespeare's raillery and Ira Gershwin's wit, as though you'd had a glass or two of cheap champagne.
5. Charles Perrault wrote of the " Letters " : " Everything is there purity of language, nobility of thought, solidity in reasoning, finesse in raillery, and throughout an " agr�ment " not to be found anywhere else ."
6. Shrewdly, Rock doesn't spare himself from the general raillery, as when he described his sex-starved teenage years : " I was 30 pounds lighter, I had braces, I had glasses . ( Expletive, ) I was birth control ."
7. Samuel Johnson once triumphed in such an exchange :'a fellow having attacked him with some coarse raillery, Johnson answered him thus, " Sir, your wife, " under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house ", is a receiver of stolen goods " '.
8. Virgil Thomson set the tone for two generations of snobbish raillery when he wrote that the Soviet master's willingness " to write down to a real or fictitious psychology of mass consumption " compromised him " in a way that may eventually disqualify him for consideration as a serious composer ."
9. Scud�ry's Conversations Sur Divers Sujets, included dialogues covering " Conversation, " " The Art of Speaking, " " Raillery, " " Invention, " and " The Manner of Writing Letters . " This text offers the rhetoric of salon conversation and model scenarios where women take intellectual control of the conversation.
10. These evil tendencies in the popular presentation of Christianity undoubtedly begot in Shaftesbury's mind a certain amount of repugnance and contempt to some of the doctrines of Christianity itself; and, cultivating, almost of set purpose, his sense of the ridiculous, he was too apt to assume towards such doctrines and their teachers a tone of raillery.