Sentence examples for absent laughter from inspiring English sources

When comedy directors lose their way, there's a strange despair behind the absent laughter because comedy is the most unforgiving of genres.

Geoffrey D. Roberts of Real Talk Reviews criticized the episode, writing that "the story is thin and the laughter absent".

On the page, so many of the subtle cues that go into sparking laughter are absent or easily misinterpreted, such as a deadpan delivery, withering sarcasm, or broad slapstick.

Real laughter has been absent in the White House lately.

This season "Ragtime" returned, a decade after the original closed, as did "A View From the Bridge," last on Broadway 12 years ago, and "Present Laughter" at the Roundabout, absent for 13 years.

1 In addition to the characteristic movements, Angelman noted severe intellectual disability, absent speech, and bouts of inappropriate laughter.

One can hear music alongside voices and laughter that remind us of the absent travelers.

The English version is absent of dialogue; voices during Organization battles are replaced with simple grunts, laughter, and other battle cries.

Although the patient offers further hints of his scepticism in line 13 a hesitation, laughter and the word "but"—the underlying ambiguity is passed over, and absent from the institutional record made by the doctor.

Discerning readers and fans of laughter may have noticed that Rob Delaney's weekly column, Take a Stroll…, was conspicuously absent last Thursday.

43 Angelman syndrome (AS, MIM 234400) is associated with severe mental retardation with absent speech, ataxic movements and gait, increased tone after infancy, seizures, and a happy disposition with paroxysmal laughter.