This may be a book about death and loss, but Caldwell's greatest achievement is to rise above all that to describe both the very best that women can be together and the precious things they can, if they wish, give back to one another: power, humor, love and self-respect.
Another place humor might be considered misplaced is during exams -- such as the Ph.D. oral exam.
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Some people find the almost brazen unhealthiness of poutine another opportunity for humor.
Another is the humor, comprehensible without supertitles, even when actors switch between English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa.
With tongue-in-cheek humor, another writer, Chaindrive, tried to find a silver lining in the fire.
That Jaques himself, the man of melancholy, is typified not by his age but by a "humor," another old classificatory schema gently mocked?
Maybe she imagined that she was indulging in a bit of victimless, anonymous humor, another edgy joke that went too far.
Hungry families respond to food with a touch of Homsi humor, another resident said: one joyfully celebrated the harvest of a single tomato; another, excited to find a live chicken, ensconced it in luxurious privacy in the soft bed of a newlywed couple, hoping for eggs.
