Sentence examples for current of humor from inspiring English sources

A central ingredient that runs through the movie is a current of humor.

Although "The Specials," directed by Craig Mazin from a screenplay by James Gunn (creator and star of the 1997 cult favorite "Tromeo and Juliet") is almost terminally whimsical, it generates a steady current of humor, much of it off-color.

He opened his program with a robust, steely performance of Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2. And if he stressed the often mechanistic modernism of its left-hand writing, he also played the top lines with a soaring, more flexible quality that provided a contrasting touch of human warmth and even, in his razor-sharp performance of the Scherzo, a current of humor.

Sustaining currents of humor, anger and generosity run through Moore's work.

Currents of humor run through these: in the cello work, the live cellist and a recorded cello line gradually distort a Bach sarabande; in the Bach section of the "Baroque Variations," a bottle is smashed with a hammer, and Johann Sebastian Bach is spelled out in Morse code by a xylophone.

Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles is producing the current run of "Humor Abuse" at the Taper, but is not involved in the Kickstarter campaign. .

And ghoulish though the stories are, Mr. Horne, Mr. Campbell and David Schweizer, who directs the production at the Zipper Factory Theater, have found a current of dark humor within each.

A current of salty humor infused unlikely selections like "Give a Little Whistle," from "Pinocchio," in which that whistle became a sly sexual invitation, and best of all "Handy Man," in which she took the role of a neighborhood stud using his equipment "24 hours a day" to fix broken hearts.

A medley of "Here's That Rainy Day" and "Where's the Boy I Saved for a Rainy Day?" plumbs the depths of heartbreak and loneliness, while the country-flavored "He Ain't Mr. Right" rides a current of sexy humor without turning cheap.

But there's also a strong current of dark humor that pulses through Southern's new life.

Reece's evocation of a family house on Cape Cod, eventually sold, exemplifies the twin currents of detached humor and sorrow that run through his début collection.