Sentence examples for certain humour from inspiring English sources

Others of a certain humour type will curse the Olympic Games, in which golf's return means the US PGA has taken on this particular calendar slot.

Mackenzie hesitates to sum up the "tone" of the festivities but, if anything, she says, they will have a certain humour and wit: "There's something about the surprise and quirkiness of them – about being funny as well as touching".

They also shared a certain humour - "Dear Thora, Just come up to change the lavatory seat, love Alan" read one of his postcards from Yorkshire - and a disdain for approximation: "That's an 'if', not a 'but', and when you do a Bennett it is an 'if', not a 'but'," she remarked about memorising his scripts.

I think if you look at the Mel Gibson piece, the article about women-only investment clubs, you will see this.' The reflex banging-on about Europe, crime and political correctness has, if not toned down, been injected with a certain humour.

There's a certain humour in just how poorly made it is but the fact that it's widely thought to be somewhat autobiographical lends a similar surrealism to how ready we are to make fun of it.

The relief of making it to Berlin, however, appears to have allowed a certain mordant humour to emerge.

While there are certain themes (humour, a love of trippy, psychedelic imagery), as a whole, it's quite dizzying.

Mishima's novels are typically Japanese in their sensuous and imaginative appreciation of natural detail, but their solid and competent plots, their probing psychological analysis, and a certain understated humour helped make them widely read in other countries.

When he came to the Guardian book club to speak about his novel Mother's Milk, Edward St Aubyn agreed with one of his readers that his very titles have a certain grim humour.

There's obviously a certain wry humour in calling a track off a largely instrumental album based on 20-year-old outtakes On Noodle Street, but there's also a grain of truth in the title.

Undoubtedly, there's a certain black humour in showing that the cap won't work because ministers haven't managed to construct the system so that it does what they want it to do.