Sentence examples for brief funny from inspiring English sources

There's also a brief, funny story about a group of old men poolside in Florida, talking about their dead wives.

I also took the Welsh poet Tony Curtis's brief, funny and illuminating My Life With Dylan Thomas: "Dylan was the mountain you had either to climb or bypass; tunnelling through him left you in the dark".

But Kerrigan's prose (presuming that there really is a Kerrigan, and that this isn't Seamus Heaney hustling for a buck) is luxury stuff: brief, funny descriptions, phrases that give you the speaker's age ("Every move totally ace"), and a complete financial analysis of a city whose property prices are going up like a flock of flamingos off a lake of money.

It is somehow telling that we get a stronger impression of Disfarmer from a brief, funny sequence in which the locals testify to his oddities than we do from spending more than an hour watching him putter around and listening to the weird chatter inside his head.

The cadence goes: bad joke, bad joke, bad joke, brief funny moment, bad joke, bad joke, etc.

They are brief, often funny poems.

The speeches were mostly brief, generally funny, and plainly heartfelt.

They are all brief, charming, funny, and preoccupied in a postmodern way with the burdens and complications (and pleasures) of writing fiction.

Around 1 a.m., a more select group of Broadway insiders hit the Carlyle after-after-party, trickling in throughout the night, including Tracie Bennett, a nominee for her role as Judy Garland in "End of the Rainbow," and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, of "Modern Family," who had a brief but funny cameo on the Tonys telecast.

Indeed, for the forthcoming television dramatisation the producer Sue Birtwistle, with Susie Conklin and scriptwriter Heidi Thomas, have woven together four separate works by Gaskell: Cranford itself, the short story "Mr Harrison's Confessions", the long novella Lady Ludlow and the brief, very funny article The Last Generation in England.

They're brief but funny and strange and clever, and the introduction of heterogenous elements do more to bring the closed world to life than the hour-long setup that precedes them (and, for that matter, than does the ostensible dénouement, which is anticlimactic).