Sentence examples for desperate humour from inspiring English sources

It's exactly the dark, desperate humour that this sequel needed more of.

Harry toured variety halls around the country as the second spot on the bill, an experience which he said sometimes engendered a desperate humour.

"In many ways," wrote Ballard, "Searle's world reminds me of Max Wall - his twitchy clubmen and crazed headmistresses reveal the same ferocious impotence, and a desperate humour that has nothing to do with comedy.

In those desperate circumstances humour was necessary.

Rendah Heywood has fun with the desperate, brittle humour of Tabby, who knows she might be the real monster, and Carla Langley – so good in Theatre 503's Desolate Heaven – is compellingly pale and interesting as Eve.

The six-person ensemble (Jamie Cameron, Alvaro Flores, Jimena Larraguivel, Eilon Morris, Anne-Marie Piazza and Tania Mathurin) do their best with a script that never manages to resolve its tonal lurches, shifting uneasily between black humour, desperate sorrow and righteous anger.

What his writing always showed was a sense of how notions of law and order are in abeyance when men get desperate; and desperation, albeit infused with gallows humour, was the atmosphere Leonard's characters breathed.

It's a vibrant, surprising place characterised by a studied, surreal humour (the Desperate Dan statue?).

How else does a comic deal with a desperate situation, other than with humour?

In a desperate attempt to deconstruct the humour, Chopper turned to rap because the style was rooted in street culture.

But while the constant jangling of tiles inside the little bags made it sound like a den of rattlesnakes had slithered into the room, the mood was a curious mixture of good humour as well as desperate seriousness.