Sentence examples for devastating humour from inspiring English sources
What they share, however (with the lyrically earnest exception of Camus), is a devastating humour.
In December 2013, the paper's former collaborator Olivier Cyran posted an open letter to his former colleagues on the Article 11 website, which read: "The devastating humour of the Charlie I loved still rings in my ears… I've never considered you racist, but unless you proclaim your anti-racism loud and clear … the moment has perhaps arrived to consider the question".
He had a delightful, sometimes devastating, black sense of humour.
At times outstripping the viewership of its TV iteration by a factor of 10, the YouTube channel of HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver was perhaps 2014's most reliable source of online video, tackling such potentially bewildering subjects as US state legislatures and Ugandan homophobia with a mix of goofy humour and devastating evidence.
Most neutrals gave the debate to Obama, either on points or more convincingly, who regularly exposed Romney's inconsistency on Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran – "you've been all over the map" – and used humour to devastating effect when he rebutted the Republican's lament that the US Navy had fewer ships now than at any time since 1917.
