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jolly
(redirected from jolliness)

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See: jocular


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Forget Walt Disney's Americanized dwarfs and heroine with all of their Crayola-colored jolliness, where the worst thing that happens is Snow White biting into the poisoned apple.
The short-lived jolliness of the opening - Christmas in the royal court - gives way to Leontes' grip of paranoia, as he locks up his wife and abandons his new-born, then news of death ups the chill factor in darkening scenes of a remorseful king - and Hicks' face captures every flicker of his battling emotions - on a bleak stage strewn with the scattered pages of those library books.
Much like I might kick a football against a fence, they'd saddle up some horses and charge around until their little upper-class cheeks went pink with the jolliness of it all.
 
 
 
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