Sentence examples for humor setting from inspiring English sources

Clements writes with compassion and wistful humor, setting her characters' melancholy amid effervescent conversation and brilliant summer scenery.

It is always good to be reminded that FIFA, the world soccer body, has a morbid sense of humor, setting up the absolutely inevitable matchup between those two old dear friends, England and Argentina, in their second game.

He is currently working on a history of American humor set between the world wars.

One suspects that he would have been delighted and his mischievous sense of humor set working overtime.

Cattelan is our reigning artist-provocateur, and while his anarchic humor sets him apart from most artists, he has shown a growing tendency to engage with larger social, political, and moral issues.

In "Strange Humors," set to another score by Mr. Mackey, he sets up an inventive competition between two bare-chested men in chic orange pants by Missoni.

One of the most recent of Salonen's premières at the Philharmonic, "Karawane" (2014), found a new element of meaning — humor — in setting Hugo Ball's crazy Dadaist poem for chorus and orchestra.

And his Bayonne-bred sense of humor also sets Mr. Martin apart.

He is also remarkably agile in using humor to set up a serious insight.

"Jo has a very dry humor that sets a very different tone to everything else that we have," he said.

He's a funny man, even when he doesn't mean to be, but that humor is set off by an essential sadness.