Sentence examples for facetious humor from inspiring English sources
His quest is more episodically comic in tone than the Percy series often was (we learn that Magnus has watched William Goldman's "The Princess Bride" 26 times, and some of that tale's facetious humor has slipped into this one).
As the screenplay's sour wisecracks fizzle around them, Mr. Fiennes and Mr. Sutherland play their characters without a smidgen of irony or facetious humor, and their performances in impossible roles lend "Land of the Blind" a frisson of gravitas.
His taste for hyperbole and facetious humor, however, grows increasingly tiresome as the book progresses, and because some of his anecdotes are decidedly dubious (the author, who is in his 50's, writes that he received, as a boy, some advice from an old-timer who told him to "never turn down tickets to see Jordan"), the reader begins to wonder just how many of his stories are true.
But Mr. Wainwright, a natural clown with a facetious self-mocking humor, soon escaped the curse by claiming his own niche as his generation's most ruthlessly honest singing comedian.
Well, somebody with a sense of humor normally doesn't explain when they're being facetious.
Known for her spontaneous sense of humor, Kiki loved a pun nearly as much as a facetious barb.
Ms. Boone, 56, brought so little stamina and humor to "Mack the Knife" that you wondered if she even knew she was singing a facetious anthem exalting a homicidal bad boy.
Aggressively facetious stuff.
