While suffering that politically correct answer, Annie could barely contain her mirth.
The aunts could not contain their mirth at the very idea of a black doll.
The more those audience members tried to contain their mirth, the more prominent and hilarious those noises became.
But the young Sontag could barely contain her mirth: "I just couldn't stop laughing," she says.
Sometimes, it manages to reach their throats; often it ends up on the sofa when, unable to contain their mirth, they can't keep it down.
The men offered to slaughter it for her, and on hearing that she planned to "rescue" it, they could not contain their mirth.
Still, she could use a lesson in mindfulness: when she hears the Teacher's voice, she starts to laugh, and, when other members of this spiritual expedition enter late, she can barely contain her mirth.
The local TV newscaster reporting the mauling could barely contain his mirth, asking, "Did Fatso get any fatter?" and blaming the man's idiocy on the fact he was from "an Eastern city," meaning Sydney or Melbourne.
And yet his eyes had an unnerving gleam that contained something like mirth, as though he'd surreptitiously shaken up a can of Pepsi and handed it to me to open.
And his sad eyes and slyly amused grimace, painted on an otherwise placid face, create an expression that seems barely to contain an explosive mirth beneath.
We've got a section called 'The Mirth Canal.' In that section, I had started a thread called 'I Can't Believe _____ Made Me Laugh.' It contained these goofy little videos that I couldn't believe I was laughing at.
