Sentence examples for be humorous if from inspiring English sources

It would be humorous if it were not so sad this myth of the super spook.

It would be humorous if the issues were not so important.

"The notion that if people don't kill themselves they're going to die on a ventilator in the hospital would be humorous if it weren't so serious," she said.

LeBaron noted dryly: "This period of excessive UK speculation about the relationship is more paranoid than usual … This over-reading would often be humorous, if it were not so corrosive".

One said the anxious British attitude "would often be humorous if it were not so corrosive" and that it was tempting to take advantage of this neurosis to "make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance".

But these cables show the Americans literally laugh at them and their sycophancy, describing their servility in mocking tones in cables back home, saying "it would be humorous if it were not so corrosive".

"You can't be humorous in a derogatory way, if that's what this is intended to be," he said.

For some of Armstrong's friends in Aspen, the controversy was humorous, if nothing else.

"We deemed something as being humorous if it elicited laughter from the audience, justices or advocates," Mr. Malphurs and his colleagues wrote.

Not counting the Punk'd and Candid Camera-type practical joke setups that are humorous (if rather mean), several television programs aim their hoaxes at the public, making them realistic, and keeping the background a secret as the bizarre video goes viral across the web.

Sometimes it's hard to say whether they're meant to be humorous, and if they're not, why you're laughing anyway.