Sentence examples for gravely funny from inspiring English sources
That's the take-away lesson from Colin Cotterill's gravely funny novels set in Indochina in the 1970s and honoring the extravagantly colorful life of Dr. Siri Paiboun, the national (indeed, the only) coroner of Laos, "a country without a constitution or a body of laws".
The rest of the time, we watched a video or listened to audio of vipassana's main disseminator, the late SN Goenka, intoning instructions in his gravely, funny, sweet voice.
funny," Zucker said gravely.
David gravely intoning, "Stuffing the midget in the oven is funny?" Margaret's powerful response to the Julianne Moore film, Still Alice.
Man is an existential sad sack who instinctively sets up a game of hide-and-seek with the audience, a strategy that follows Twain's dictum about comic delivery: "The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it".
Warburton's always been known for his deep, gravely voice that made even the cheesiest of punchlines (see: Rules of Engagement) funny, as long as they're delivered in a deadpan tone.
And because Ms. Lynch is herself gravely beautiful, Maureen's fate has a sorrowful resonance that only amplifies the anger underpinning an often raucously funny battle of wits between mother and daughter, with two brothers the only intruders into the Folan women's last, baleful face-off.
Small urchins angle gravely,.
"Moke," it pronounced gravely.
Thus filmmakers philosophize gravely".
His friend nodded gravely.
