Sentence examples for certain humor from inspiring English sources
"Dr. Mant has a certain humor and bawdiness which can become quite black," Ms. Cornwell told The Independent in 1993.
Yet the other witness's silent eavesdropping and the benign mood of a desert sunset enabled me to locate a certain humor in his effrontery; I took the plunge and held nothing back.
With a certain humor, with a certain honesty, with an exuberant pleasure (but with no grace), he had shaken off the obscure world in which managers and record hustlers — however rich — scuffle unnoticed.
At times this multigenerational story is almost over-realized ("Daphne's second husband's half-sister married my father's elder brother"), but Hollinghurst is the kind of writer who has always displayed a certain humor toward his own virtuosity.
And the organization itself, with only 82 voting members, some of them freelance writers with only vague journalistic connections, is treated with a a shrug and a certain humor by the Hollywood elite.
"You have to react to this with a certain humor, but there's also a sad side to this.
The combination of formal ingenuity and period detail (Neil Diamond on a soundtrack) generates a certain black humor.
The absurdity of this inane chitchat taking place as some of the most wrenching moments in theatrical history are occurring outside has a certain mordant humor.
The pillows add a certain anthropomorphic humor, as if the stones were incarnations of the legendary Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, whose minds expanded beyond human limits to embrace geological time.
As Emily Nussbaum wrote in the magazine last week, Trump, along with a sizable contingent of his supporters, has made use of a certain nihilistic humor as a cover for his lies.
Jerez, an experimental choreographer from Spain, has created a kind of mise-en-abyme of the rehearsal process, one that constantly frustrates (with a certain deadpan humor) the audience's expectations regarding performance readiness, pacing, and the notion of beginnings and endings.
