How To Use Jeu d'esprit In A Sentence

• It is in developing a story that "The Marriage Plot" encounters problems, because when Mr. Eugenides leaves behind collegiate jeu d'esprit and advances to more adult subjects like illness, marriage and religious faith he is far less assured. Sense & Semiotics
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• The result is a literary work several levels above the usual derivative jeu d'esprit. Mr. & Mrs. Darcy To the Rescue
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• Ian Richards and Charles Ogden were not indulging in some donnish jeu d'esprit when they wrote their book The Meaning of Meaning, published in 1923 and never out of print since. In praise of … hazy imprecision | Editorial
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• The walker I would describe takes no note of distance; his walk is a sally, a bonmot, an unspoken jeu d'esprit; the ground is his butt, his provocation; it furnishes him the resistance his body craves; he rebounds upon it, he glances off and returns again, and uses it gayly as his tool. Winter Sunshine
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