Sentence examples for element of humorous from inspiring English sources

It's good to know that the less funny a place is, the easier it becomes to add the element of humorous surprise.

Almost all life contains the elements of the humorous and the pathetic and the touching -- and an epic poem certainly does". Virgil created something like a symphony, Ahl said, except with "all the music notes for a score on one line". "The wordplay, the puns and anagrams, are the pivotal chords that enable the poet to change register and to set up multiple resonances simultaneously.

That trend also emerged in Depression-era photography commissioned by the United States government in the 1930s, though not with "the juxtaposition of humorous elements of everyday life," Mr. Mendelson said, a Rockwell twist that sometimes drew derision from art photographers and photojournalists, who found his images banal and contrived.

The term haiku is derived from the first element of the word haikai (a humorous form of renga, or linked-verse poem) and the second element of the word hokku (the initial stanza of a renga).

That was kind of humorous".

Plenty of humorous situations arise.

Includes collection of humorous articles and anecdotes.

"Wit on Wry," exhibition of humorous works.

"It's sort of humorous, I hope".

Infertility treatment can be full of humorous moments.

A variety of humorous quotations, jokes and cartoons.