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But those early books are also marred by a shaggy, frenetic jokiness and a sense that DeLillo was still finding his way.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

It can be oblique, less about jokes than jokiness, but critical enough to his art to place him in the pantheon of great Jewish funny men.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2021

The 2012 photo is so well remembered, perhaps, because it seems to sum up so much about Johnson: the performative persona, the trademark outrageousness, the self-referential jokiness, an absolute immunity to embarrassment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2019

But it’s one of those overscripted movie moments that hits like a fist-sized hailstone, and the movie's wobbly, know-it-all jokiness only makes things worse.

From Time • Sep. 4, 2017

Now jokiness had made way for melodrama, or plaintiveness.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan