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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.

The distinctions that Hazlitt arrives at, then, in his essay "On Wit and Humour" are very much in the classic tradition of comic criticism: Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else.

There's pain in that distinction, and a certain clumsiness in recognizing it; Berger understood that, too, and he wasn't afraid of exposing it by reinventing fictional worlds full of characters who were, in their own, specific ways, too pure to live.

The actual music - the sounds, the message - comes to me and I dig deep to expose it by staying out of its way.

But the forgery is so impeccably good that he can only expose it by providing a convincing account of his father's wiles and his own lifelong resistance.

Putin insists Russian troops are not fighting in Ukraine; investigative journalists didn't puncture the lie – rather, it was Russian soldiers who exposed it by posting photos of themselves on VKontakte.

Our experiment is based on the Paul trap which gives us an opportunity to catch a single dust grain for several days inside the vacuum vessel and exposed it by electron/ion beams.

"There is this very powerful idea that gets journalists up in the morning," says Davies, "that if you find a bad thing and expose it by writing about it, you can stop the bad thing from happening.

In the same way, he proposes to destroy the Australian domestic shipping industry by exposing it to unfair competition by foreign-flagged cargo vessels paying third world wages.

GO can be partially reduced by treating it with hydrazine hydrate, by exposing it to hydrogen plasma, or by exposure to a strong pulse of light.

They then placed each muscle in a bath and tested its strength by exposing it to an electrical impulse.