Sentence examples for humourist from inspiring English sources

Down the decades, it was occasionally reprinted, and eventually reached Steingarten in a tattered article from a 1957 Gourmet and a quote from Robert Benchley, the humourist, which read: "Several years ago, I ate a turkey prepared and roasted by Morton Thompson.

To some these faults may have portray him as some rebellious humourist, but to most his behaviour is merely boorish.

But such is the current depth of pan-Arab gloom that the wider response was shrugs and nods of approval".It makes no difference because zero minus zero equals zero," quipped Ahmed Ragab, an Egyptian humourist.

These prophecies foresee a period of terrible hunger in Greece and a Russo-Turkish war which does not directly involve Greece but somehow works to Greece's benefit.What the humourist Filippos Loizos was mocking was not so much Paisios himself as the cult of Paisios, with its end-time obsession which recalls the wackier fringes of America's religious right.

"IN LANDMARK decision," humourist Andy Borowitz wrote of the justices' 5-4 ruling in a religion-infused tiff in upstate New York, "Supreme Court strikes down main reason country was started".

The provenance of the quotation may not be so rich as you assumed, but the clarion call it sounds is so well wrought it does not require the support of an illustrious name.Alan KennisNew YorkSIR – The cartoon controversy brings to mind an aphorism by the American humourist Sam Levenson: "It's so simple to be wise.

Some claim it is mentioned in the Bible, while humourists have pictured Israelis brushing their teeth with it, and stirring it into their coffee.Yet most Israelis would willingly grant that hummus is an Arab dish.

Humour, like fire, water, air, gold, always has the same composition... Humourists have only one thought, one idea, which is, 'I'm nothing and I'm scared'".

One of the few humourists to put himself in danger to make a joke.

He wrote in 1957: "I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that – humourists they are sometimes called – are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at".

After reading a few books written by one of the most widely-read humourists of the twentieth century, the books by P.G.