Sentence examples for gently humorous from inspiring English sources

What most impresses about Taxi Tehran is its laid-back and gently humorous approach.

But if one did, he might appreciate Calmenson's gently humorous approach to appropriate student behavior.

His portraits were gently humorous, in keeping with his genial disposition.

But Quindlen's moving and gently humorous depiction of her characters' transformation is thoroughly persuasive.

There's a very English sensibility to so much of Parr's work: understated, ironic, gently humorous.

And if you can be gently humorous, you are doing the whole world a favour.

In an often humorous and gently self-deprecating speech, she noted that she wanted world peace but it was something she and her brothers were still working on.

Mr. Yeung then performs the same scene live, using beautifully fashioned hand puppets that move with a delicacy that evokes real movement and also gently lampoons it to humorous effect.

Humorous and gently satirical, the novel presents a hopeful vision that African American men can get ahead in the urban North if they join together to overcome mutual distrust bred by centuries of oppression.

Often, Shunga paintings are humorous; sometimes, they are subversive – gently poking fun at the cultural and aesthetic mores of their time.

In earlier films, Grant was adept at plugging into the stereotype of a repressed Englishman for humorous effects, allowing him to gently satirise his characters as he summed them up and played against the type simultaneously.