Sentence examples for by humour from inspiring English sources

Yet any darkness is filtered by humour.

But even his most vigorous denunciations were informed by humour.

Whenever possible, he badgers it by humour of expression.

The enjoyment of humour requires recognition, but humour recognition is not necessarily accompanied by humour enjoyment.

But his idyllic novels, always marked by humour, treat his predicament in a comic style.

The melancholy often suggested by her subjects was frequently relieved by humour.

A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction, by Lee Rourke (Hesperus Press, £8.99) Aesop, the Greek "anti-philosopher" who was flung off a cliff by humour-challenged Delphians, is a kind of literary Socrates: all subsequent literature can be read as Aesopian footnotes or variations.

Yet he knows that with parliamentary elections due by next July Mr Erdogan is unlikely to risk upsetting nationalist voters by humouring the Kurds.

You should start by humouring the bar's soft spot for absinthe with a Red Fairy, which combines some of the potent liqueur with strawberry and elderflower favours.

He replied that he was doing me a favour by humouring my iffy rape case, and that if I continued to give him attitude he would just drop it.

"She is sustained by her own good sense, by her humour and by her reading.