Sentence examples for gracious joke from inspiring English sources
A gracious joke is chosen not to offend your audience.
To praise the beauty of this film, then, is not enough; what lends it tension is that it's wrapped around people for whom beauty is at best an anachronism and at worst an embarrassing joke, like gracious conduct or any hint of duty or service — all the stuff that belongs to big-studio cinema, with its superheroes and stuck-up guys in period costume.
But 41 can still drive his cherished cigarette boat, Fidelity IV, in Kennebunkport, and he was very much himself over pizza at his favorite Houston dive: racy jokes, no airs, ever gracious.
When Welles was only thirty-six, the normally gracious Walter Kerr referred to him as "an international joke, and possibly the youngest living has been".
He is humble, he's gracious, he's a man's man, tells a great dirty joke.
He is gracious, coming out of the dugout for frequent curtain calls, joking with fans.
Stuart will be remembered by all who knew him as a gracious, charming and generous man, quick to offer a kind word or a joke.
"Now I'll sing some cabaret," she joked afterward, before performing four of Rossini's salon songs, including a gracious rendition of "L'invito" and an elegantly phrased, poignant interpretation of "La partenza".
They are kind and gracious people (with respectable day jobs, even) and it took approximately twenty minutes for anyone to make a dick joke.
