Sentence examples for grim laughter from inspiring English sources

Such reassurances provoke grim laughter among doctors.

Grim laughter sometimes, for Orumbo is a nasty piece of work (Mr Bandele resists political correctness), but witty with it.The play darkens, naturally, for the Surinam act, but equally naturally it becomes predictable: the chain gangs, the brutal punishments, the odious English slave owners, though Mr Bandele keeps Behn's one good white, the Governor's agent Mr Trefry, to balance Orumba.

INDIANAPOLIS — In the cafes, gift stores and the gourmet dog biscuit shop in this city's neighborhood of Broad Ripple Village, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s name draws all sorts of responses — sighs, rolling eyes, laughter, grim silence.

You were made for pleasure and laughter, not merely for grim work.

His playing is not filled with carefree laughter: it is a rather grim and serious business, and woe betide the adult who gets in his way.

Like Noël Coward, he makes a case for frivolity as an existential choice, for the necessity of laughter in transcending an often grim world.

Laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim.

Ms Waugh, who had the grim job of interviewing the parents of dead children, found laughter long gone.

Either way, with the news so often grim, it's good to leaven it with a little laughter.

While the film's subject sounds grim, with Alexie on screen, there is bound to be some laughter.

Though elsewhere, the director harnesses the nervous laughter coping mechanism of the former employees to inject humor into the grim tale.