Pointing at one's crotch, to emphasize jokes about impotence or sex, is a favored tactic.
And despite its fond associations, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" — created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur, who were writers and producers on "Parks and Recreation" — is thoroughly contemporary in its sketch-comedy-style structure, emphasizing throwaway jokes, physical humor and visual punch lines (like an amusing "Mod Squad" reference) while avoiding anything resembling story development.
You can always avoid emphasizing the jokes with your voice.
Monks are everywhere — unloading trucks of food, debating Buddhist scripture by slapping their palms to emphasize points, joking with pilgrims camped nearby.
Sid's the first to break the spell, his voice rising to emphasize the joke: "Well, Jesus Christ, we thought we were going to wilt away and starve waiting for you".
Philip Larkin published sparingly, and ordered his collections with care -- "great care," he once emphasized, then joked, "I treat them like a music-hall bill: you know, contrast, difference in length, the comic, the Irish tenor, bring on the girls".
Sometimes he holds my hand to offer a gentle squeeze of support, or to emphasize a joke, or simply to express gratitude.
"Red birds do not fly with blue birds," white Christians smugly joked, emphasizing "it's just the natural order of things".
The 78-year-old former senator, relaxed and joking, emphasized Medicare and prescription drug prices, and once again chided Mr. Forrester, the president of a company that manages prescription drug benefit plans, for refusing to release his income tax returns.
As emphasized in a joke attributed to American philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen (1880 1947), logic texts had to be divided in two parts: in the first part, on deductive logic, unwarranted forms of inference (deductive fallacies) are exposed; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are endorsed (see Meehl 1990, 110).
DeLorenzo stages the play on a mirrored set by Takeshi Kata that suggested to me a Lacanian joke but wound up merely emphasizing the vanity of this academic environment, where appearances are never exactly what they seem.
