Sentence examples for grim joke from inspiring English sources

WAVERLY: (A grim joke).

It sounds like a grim joke.

There are several variations of a grim joke told in this city's beleaguered tourism industry.

That's as close to a grim joke as this relentlessly downbeat show gets.

I kept thinking about that grim joke as I prepared for this column.

This grim joke recalls Cheever, whose parents also used to kid about having tried to abort him.

Grim jokes about the parlous state of the Soviet system are as old as the gulag.

She says she cannot stand it when people who did talk through their experiences in "endless infantile grim jokes".

There are also the grim jokes about how, during our most recent and most wretched Presidential election, we all surely died and boarded the first elevator downstairs, where we are now in permanent residence.

In the current production, which is simply and knowledgeably directed by Fugard himself, the humor is taken to terrifying heights; the brothers are bound together by a few grim jokes, chief among them Zachariah's quest for a woman.

It was New York, so people made grim jokes; one woman reached for the regular Hellman's and said, "If this is the end of the world, I'm not using light mayonnaise".