jeu d'esprit

It is both solemn and jaunty, this little jeu d'esprit, as if to say that we're all in this together.

Thus it is that unlike Polanski, directors like Marc Webb, who've cut their teeth on a jeu d'esprit like 500 Days of Summer but want to get on, find themselves entangled in franchise-land.

"Quite a jeu d'esprit!" exclaimed Rebecca, laughing gaily.

But the thing is essentially a pot-boiler and a jeu d'esprit.

This jeu d'esprit, which was published by the London Committee, was circulated by thousands, and proved extremely useful in bringing the burning question home in an attractive form to the masses of the nation.