Assessing the companies' approach to business side by side makes for funny contrasts.
That continued with his first debate performance, which was spirited and funny in contrast to Whitman's coldly scripted consultant talking points.
Ms. Henríquez's sculptures are by contrast funny, tough, enlightening and curious — in short, everything artwork in a museum should be.
What's funny is "the contrast between something that's very graceful and something that is very not".
There is a great deal that is unconscionably funny in the contrast between Blanche and Stanley, and also in the effort of poor Stella (who loves them both in their due fashion) to draw them together.
"It's so regal and elegant". What's funny is "the contrast between something that's very graceful and something that is very not". Hearing it, we might imagine the ballet itself: the delicate, deferential choreography, the harmony of movement.
John Lithgow's family of space aliens in that series had assimilated enough to be able to pass as human; part of what made the show funny was the contrast between the intelligence of Mr. Lithgow's college professor character and his continuing struggles to grasp the nuances of humanness.
In contrast, funny punch lines evoke the smallest N400m during this initial lexical semantic stage, consistent with their primed "surface congruity" with the setup question.
Penny Thesee funny moments were contrasted with stories like the description of his grandmother's mantelpiece, in which he walked us through the different items and where he supposed they would all end up in time.
OK, if you really want to have the sexism discussion, you can have it about that statement, but that is decidedly NOT the same thing as saying "women aren't funny," especially when contrasted with the first quote from the same interview.
