I thought maybe she would intuitively start praising me, or make indirect reference to my boyish charisma, or tell charming stories of
ribaldry and derring-do and deviltry starring none other than me me me.
Billy Bunter proportions, once the stuff of occasional playground
ribaldry, are now the norm for the kiddy sloths of 2011.
The proximity to celebrity (Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady on ABC's "The Brady Bunch," stars as Miss Abigail), the in-jokey humoz, the parent-friendly
ribaldry ...
This
ribaldry is exciting in our time, but imagine what it must have been like when Shakespeare wrote it: ALL the parts would have been performed by men, setting up a reverse Victor/Victoria situation, since it would have been a man playing Cesario/Viola playing a woman playing a man.
His latest policy document in mid-September 'EU-Africa Co-operation in Space' also invited
ribaldry. Formerly a long-standing MEP, his reputation for vapid generalisations is not a shock to those who meet him.
It provides details to
ribaldry that took place at the USA House, a space rented by the U.S.
Amid this raucous
ribaldry, Busy enters from the audience and squares himself center stage in direct puritanical opposition to the puppet Dionysius.
One had to be able to perform one's role, following the King's lead, switching quickly from piety to
ribaldry. For the first time, visitors to Hampton Court Palace in 2009 will also be invited to play their part in the life of the court.
He abhorres such Writers, and their Workes, and hath professed himselfe an enemie to all such as stuffe their Scenes with
ribaldry, and lard their lines with scurrilous taunts and jests.
The teasing, kidding, occasional
ribaldry and camaraderie were contagious.
(That these drawings were made while he underwent intensive psychotherapy, for example, goes some way toward accounting for their freewheeling, free-associative
ribaldry.) Yet the reward of this show was that seeing the work in depth had the surprising and salutary effect of making his life feel less proximate to it.