Asked to summarize the Iranian people in three words, Masry says, jovial, lively, and humorous.

In deep financial crisis, traditionally social democratic Denmark elected a conservative prime minister, Poul Schlüter, a jovial man with a bow tie.

CORAL (Computer On line Real time Applications Language) is a programming language originally developed in 1964 at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE), Malvern, UK, as a subset of JOVIAL.

He was speaking in a very jovial and gregarious way about Yo Yo Ma and Hillary Clinton and how the Dodgers were never going to make the World Series, all because of the treacherous first violin passage work in the last movement of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.