Sentence examples for characteristic humour from inspiring English sources

– with characteristic humour.

Already diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2008, she handled her illness with characteristic humour and professionalism.

"Highly political yet full of Saramago's characteristic humour and humanity, this is a novel as full of love as it is of pain," said the publisher.

But to this reader at least, it feels more like an elegy, written with characteristic humour and insight, for a profession she loved and saw decline.

In a recent newspaper interview, Rubasingham, with characteristic humour, reversed a question – about being a female, Asian director – to inquire as to how being white and male might be affecting the journalism of her interrogator.

In this monumental performance, which Sam himself felt was the greatest of his career, he drew on his personal sense of pain and loss, achieving a rare subtlety and stillness, gently laced with his characteristic humour.

When it comes to identifying exactly who the "Jews" are that she loves so unreservedly, Burchill tellingly rejects one set of stereotypic Ashkenazi characteristics – humour, chicken soup, kvetching, Woody Allen, fiddling on rooftops – in favour of those advanced by the ethno-Zionists: intelligence, IDF machismo, "true" democracy, good looks etc.

When it comes to identifying exactly who the "Jews" are that she loves so unreservedly, Burchill tellingly rejects one set of stereotypic Ashkenazi characteristics – humour, chicken soup, kvetching, Woody Allen, fiddling on rooftops – in favour of those  advanced by the ethno-Zionists: intelligence, IDF machismo, "true" democracy, good looks etc.

From his first symphonies written for the Esterházys, Haydn amply displayed his characteristic good humour and wit, as well as the dependable freshness of his musical ideas, although full maturity would come much later.

Then, with the characteristic dry humour that marks her writing, she adds "but if somebody else organises a demo, I'll go on it".

It retained the intimate atmosphere, entertainment platform, and improvisational character of the French cabaret but developed its own characteristic gallows humour.