I was 18 at the time and totally out of my depth, so I joked, "maybe just elope", to which she replied, "yeah, maybe the problem is him!" It was a joke and she did laugh, but it was the kind of empty laugh that doesn't reach a person's eyes.
"It was one of the most beautiful things I ever seen in my life," says this swaggering Sylvester Stallone clone, "like a spiritual thing - and then I blacked out". In the play, this thug with empty eyes and an even emptier laugh went on to terrorize an elderly couple in their home.
There is No Money Laughter, a pose in which initiates pretend that their pockets are empty, and then laugh; and Visa Bill Laughter, in which they point to an imaginary Visa bill in their palm, and laugh; and Milk Shake Laughter, in which they pretend to pour milk back and forth between two cups, and laugh.
He pointed to an empty chair and laughed.
Attracted by the screaming, Felicity enters and sits on the toilet, holding an empty glass and laughing.
Cycling on an empty stomach is no laughing matter.
Girls would look for shells just as their grandmothers did generations before them, boys would help bail out the rain from their fathers' boats every morning, and the shoreline would never be empty of naked children laughing, swimming and doing handstands in the surf.
Since then, there have been rumors of children laughing in empty halls and the original owner's wife playing the piano in the middle of the night.
"Even though I enjoyed Headingley 1995, I don't actually want to go back there - a half-empty ground, everyone laughing at how bad we are, Carl Hooper scoring 60 in 30 balls as they knock off 120 in 19 overs.
He splashed wine into the diners' empty glasses and didn't laugh.
Both plots show the position of /ae/ before nasals (stand, ham, hang) as empty squares, and /ae/ elsewhere (laugh, that, had) as black squares.
