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Examples of jeu d'esprit
jeu d'esprit
Letter from His Father is a jeu d'esprit altogether outside the land of the living.
From the time.com
In nimbler hands the first topic is worth a brisk jeu d'esprit.
From the economist.com
It may, even, not quite match the fathomless profundity of its inspirations, being rather an enjoyable and well-made jeu d'esprit.
From the guardian.co.uk
Whether this is a serious work of art or simply a jeu d'esprit is something that, after a week, I have yet to make my mind up about.
From the guardian.co.uk
In compensation, several of the stories are pure jeu d'esprit, where the charm of the conceit hardly requires any suggestion of the sinister or the doomed.
From the theatlantic.com
I don't feel this poem loses much, if anything, if we put to one side our biographical knowledge about Amy Levy and see it as a jeu d'esprit about an illicit heterosexual romance.
From the guardian.co.uk
