Norman, the author of "The Museum Guard" and "The Bird Artist" along with several other books, is a gentle, deliberate writer, and his humor is smart and dry, sometimes almost arid.
Wielding such satisfyingly analog elements as newspaper, scissors, paint brushes and large-scale compositions, Terrazzo's newest series of portraits use dark humor and deliberate hyper-sexualization to explore and express how insidiously self-immolating and unhealthy this phenomenon has become.
Deliberate attempts at right-wing humor have fallen flat.
Quiet, deliberate and understated in its humor and romance, City is a subtle, polished story that is, in the parlance, "character-driven".
Expressionist yet contemporary, the figurative paintings are dark and deliberate, with a sense of humor and a fluidity marked by bats, bunnies and other animal references that flutter, bounce and stomp through her canvases.
Avoiding the complicated emotions behind her humor may be a deliberate and self-protective move, but it sells her readers – be they fans or critics – well short.
Also, it could be that black humor, oblique sales messages and deliberate provocation -- common in many British ads -- don't go down as well in the United States.
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Her ads across social media are deliberate both with the product placement and her humor.
Humor also allows you to keep a deliberate distance between the two of you because it's less likely to get intimate or angst-ridden when you're being funny.
