All 3 Uses of
banter
in
The Magic Mountain
- There was a preachy flavor to it, although it was delivered in the light, bantering tone of small talk.†
Chpt 3.4 *bantering = engaging in amusing conversation
- It was a very inadequate insight, based on vulgar intuition and lacking real moral profundity, and so perfectly worthy of Frau Stohr—which was why Hans Castorp replied only with a tired, disdainful glance when she expressed it in her coarse, bantering way.†
Chpt 5.8
- It is not by accident, please note, that we have chosen to associate with minds like those of Messrs. Naphta and Settembrini, instead of surrounding ourselves with vague Peeperkorns—which leads us, in fact, to a comparison that in many respects and particularly in regard to stature can only be resolved in favor of this late arrival, just as it was resolved in Hans Castorp's own mind as he lay on his balcony and admitted that those two hyperarticulate mentors, tugging at both sides of his soul, simply shrank beside Pieter Peeperkorn, until he was inclined to call them the same name the Dutchman had called him in a fit of drunken royal banter—"little chatterboxes"—and decided it was a piece of†
Chpt 7.4
Definition:
casual conversation that is clever and amuses; or to engage in such conversation