Sentence examples for devastating humor from inspiring English sources
The Times obituary, presumably voicing the contemporary verdict, spoke of Barton's "cynical style of art" and of "a devastating humor and a bitter irony," and claimed, "His writings were like his drawings — sharp".
Jacob also said of Modigliani that he was "cutting, but as fragile as glass". The Times obituary, presumably voicing the contemporary verdict, spoke of Barton's "cynical style of art" and of "a devastating humor and a bitter irony," and claimed, "His writings were like his drawings—sharp". Yet Barton's drawings, these many decades later, do not seem especially cutting.
Instead, he used black humor to devastating effect.
In Chris Kelly's semi-autobiographical dark comedy about a struggling gay writer who moves back in with his family to help his sick mother, Shannon is quietly devastating, while retaining her signature humor.
Humor can be devastating.
Though marked by buoyant moments of wry humor, the film is devastating in its intense survey of a life in the free fall of mental and emotional collapse.
His humor is as exquisitely intricate as it is anarchically devastating.
