Sentence examples for amount of humour from inspiring English sources

I've always found a huge amount of humour and resourcefulness.

It is with no small amount of humour that those awaiting Half-Life 3 echo the old X-Files slogan: "I want to believe".

Someone with real expertise needs to craft a screenplay, lace it with just the right amount of humour, subplot, character detail and so on.

An office was smashed, several civil servants were beaten and slogans ranging from "Jesus is Lord" to "Sharia is not Y2K compliant" were daubed on the wall.Alas, in other parts of northern Nigeria's second-largest city, there was no evidence at all of even this amount of humour.

MsDaisyD The Guardian: "The Good Wife is the best drama on TV right now" – Bim Adewunmi "The best weekly study of the damaged male psyche ever put on TV – like Pinter adapting De Sade with Cronenberg helping out – plus a surprising amount of humour and warmth.

His most celebrated contributions remain Waterland, a murky tangle of familial rivalry, local history, eels and beer, and Last Orders, written soon after his father died of cancer, aged 70, and Swift's elegy for a generation "who never got the breaks but lived with a surprising amount of humour and stoicism".

Brosnan continued with the use of humour prevalent with other portrayals, and provided a "mix of action and danger threaded through with the right amount of wit and humour"; Smith and Lavington saw the humour largely as puns that were "flippant, but not crass".

The misadventures that follow have equal amounts of humour and darkness, but their strongest point is Rob's wonderfully well-realised narrative voice: "I was starting to get an iffy feeling inside, like you do when you've eaten just that one too many chocolate muffins".

(As you can imagine, the Kafka character gives rise to a fair amount of deadpan humour, along the lines of "'I got a cable from Kafka.' 'That's a hell of a way to start a working day,' said Kollberg").

There was a certain amount of muted humour in Birth, which displayed a Buñuel-like ability to play a zany scenario completely straight (it was co‑written by Buñuel's long-time collaborator, Jean-Claude Carrière), and some verbal slapstick in Sexy Beast, the film that established Glazer as a director specialising in water, long takes and a fragile atmosphere of not-quite-reality.

They sparred terrifically with a fair amount of trademark humour.