Sentence examples for absurd laughter from inspiring English sources

It's the kind of absurd laughter that Sally Fields experiences in Steel Magnolias after losing her daughter.

The place broke into absurd laughter, although I picked up a certain amount of sadness in it.

Even the most anarchic, apparently plotless story -- the Marx Brothers' movies or Douglas Adams's books, for example, or Beckett's plays -- uses the reader or audience's expectations of causal relationships to create a tension that relieved only in absurd laughter.

Fast, the ingenious gadget guru, kept up a running commentary of samples and effects, triggering absurd canned laughter to punctuate Huey's stream of wisecracks and playing chunks of old movie trailers and commercials.

By contrast, the possibility of a moral obligation to laugh at a joke seems absurd, in part, because laughter is something that can only be done spontaneously, or from natural inclination (Card 1988).

We should laugh at her. She's both absurd and sinister, and laughter is a powerful weapon.

Anti-pathos finds a name in these works: satire, laughter, the absurd.

Like a riotous, careening night out, full of bellowing laughter and absurd details, this is a book you'll be talking about for years to come.

Great nonsense verse, however, had to await the coming of a genius, Edward Lear, whose Book of Nonsense (1846) was partly the product of an emergent and not easily explainable Victorian feeling for levity and partly the issue of a fruitfully neurotic personality, finding relief for its frustrations in the noncontingent world of the absurd and the free laughter of children.

He is a deliberate presence, solemn for long periods; but then he will remark on something absurd and tip backward with laughter.

They either stifle laughter at my absurd positivity, or give me that "look" – something I can only assume is their way of reminding me that I am a complete and utter moron with no real grasp of the harsh realities of teacher life.