Sentence examples for better humour from inspiring English sources

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We'd better humour them in their delusion.

It's not perfect, and can be earnest – a touch more (or better) humour wouldn't go amiss.

Every year he prepares for the deluge of tweets he receives that are all meant for the brand – and he does so with better humour and tact than a lot of community management.

Having said his side were "in trouble" after a 3-2 Premier League loss at Stoke City at the weekend, Mourinho was in better humour on Tuesday as he put his side's leaky defence, which also conceded three at Sunderland last week, down to bad luck.

North End did not take the Blackpool flyover very well with Phil Brown, the manager, calling it "distasteful" and saying: "If I had a gun I would have shot the plane down". But the club has reacted to the Countdown stunt in better humour.

I wish I was as much stronger than all the other suitors in the house as I am than you, I would soon send some of them off sick and sorry, for they mean mischief". Thus did he speak, and they all of them laughed heartily, which put them in a better humour with Telemachus; so Eumaeus brought the bow on and placed it in the hands of Ulysses.

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Though they proved much less strident and better humoured in conversation than the placard would have you believe.

McNair decides to help young Donald better use humour to overcome the bullies.

Frequently emulated but never bettered, his humour is as dark as it gets.

Austrians have a better sense of humour than Germans?

The other children seemed to retain their sense of humour better than I did.

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