Sentence examples for a given humour from inspiring English sources

Each person is considered to have a specific humoral makeup, determined by the predominance of a given humour in his or her constitution.

"The archive is invaluable because comedy is a genre for which little historical documentation is kept – which is odd, given humour's centrality to British culture and its importance to institutions such as the BBC," said Dr Brett Mills, a senior lecturer at UEA and an expert on comedy and popular television.

I don't recall these coming with a warning, and that must be because it's a given that modern humour is based on giving offence.

Zhao Bandi to Panda: "Would you mind my smoking?" Panda to Zhao Bandi: "Would you mind my extinction" Beijing-based artist Zhao Bandi creates photographs of himself and his toy panda and then adds captions or speech bubbles to give humours meaning to the images.

I felt including the awards within the performance was an excellent idea and gave added sparkle to the presentation, particularly given the humour added by Campbell.

He had fallen in love with the country, which, he once said, had given literary humour to the world.

As much as the wild humour of a man given to hilarious and memorable comic riffs, this prickly arrogance is typical of Roth.

He was also given a book on humour and religion – perhaps as a way to broach the topic lightly.

Dawkins reportedly replied: "It's not a low-grade debunking exercise; it's a high-grade debunking exercise". I admire Sheldrake for his extraordinary good humour, given the decades of abuse he has endured.

Here is Davis's sick mind laid bare, and her dark humour given free rein.

A bumetanide induced reduction in RPE outflow is also a likely cause of the increase in VC depth observed in the bumetanide injected eyes reared with 0D and+10D lenses, given that aqueous humour production and intraocular pressure changes under bumetanide are minimal (at least in mouse and monkey [36], [37]).