Sentence examples similar to flouting humor from inspiring English sources

They also quarrel a lot and insult one another noisily, in a style that would recall a pre- Cheers," 1970s sitcom excepre- Cheersthose obscenities and the haphazard taboo-flouting humor.

And not incidentally about the humor to be derived in tough times from flouting the strictures of safe, approved taste.

Was Ms. Philo flouting good taste?

But some candidates are flouting this advice.

Several Republicans accused Mr. Obama of flouting Congress.

But does that extend to flouting rules?

Flouting local conventions made her look guilty.

Here's what "The Graham Norton Effect" could have been: a raucous showcase for campy humor and true confessions, a gay-straight alliance to flout taboos and comfort those who reveal their secret shames.

The freedom afforded by animation — a realm where the prosaic standards of verisimilitude and the inconvenient laws of physics can be flouted at will — allows Mr. Folman to blend grimly literal images with surreal flights of fantasy, humor and horror.

Like them Mr. Harmon had a statement to make: Flouting criticism that his humor was too obscurantist and pop culture obsessed, he began the season with a hilarious — as well as dynamic and tuneful — production number that proclaimed, "We're going to have more fun and be less weird than the first two years combined".

/ "She flouted the rules".