Sentence examples for a minor joke from inspiring English sources

Deftly imagined and cleanly composed, the novel has a modest authenticity that transforms what could have been a minor joke into a lively addition to the pile on the American night stand.

The minor joke of Mr. Vercruysse's new series of photographs, called "Camera Oscura," might take a moment to get.

It is a minor inside-joke among Jewish residents in China that revealing one's origins is an easy way to win over a grumpy cab driver.

He elevates himself when he questions the oxymoron inherent in a "minor groin injury" or jokes about the 49ers' defensive line, "If you wanted to put someone in the federal witness protection program, you'd put him on the 49ers' D-line".

(When one of the kids asks if he made the story up, the smiling Quinn responds, "Yes". It's part humble joke and a minor poke at copyright infringement.) The solid cast, including Scott James Moutter as Jared, the boy Quinn has taken in, works hard.

One of the most powerful story arcs concerns a character who had once (like many of the series's best characters) been a minor figure, a bit of a joke: Blanca, of the feral, glowering affect and the unibrow, howling in the bathroom about "Diablo".

But the joke has started a minor Wikipedia war, which makes it more interesting.

I don't regret coining that term, though - it's great that it started as an in-joke and became a minor youth subculture.

Did you hear the one about the Scotsman who wrote a blog inviting Irish jokes and created a minor international incident?

One Google joke even erupted into a minor Wikipedia war over time travel.

Jokes aside, there is a minor irony that much of what Windows 10 will contain is something of a forward-leaning look backwards.