Sentence examples for ill humour from inspiring English sources

But the purpose may sometimes have been intended to divert the ill humour of the dead from those who still enjoyed life in this world.

One classic example concerns homosexuality, a subject of widespread tabloid condemnation in the 1950s, ill humour as late as the 1980s (when the Sun was still referring to gay men as "poofs") and then, as if by magic, acceptance.

In 1598 Ben Jonson introduced the comedy of humours, which was dependent on the biological theory that the humours of the body (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile) affect personality: in Jonson's play Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), the character Morose is possessed by the demon of ill humour.

83 and co - sorry if you found above comment snappy - it was not written at all in ill humour - but with a big smile on my face.

The mood of Code Unknown is moreover often fractious, crackling with unease and ill-humour, and yet this is a movie whose images and personae linger in the mind, and which can deliver dazzlingly generous, compassionate insights.

The man himself never drank here, of course – it's been open only a couple of years – but he is known to have shrugged off his ill-humour over nights of drinking in several pubs close by.

Like much of the ill-humour that has sporadically emerged among partners throughout the eurozone crisis, it points to a wider picture – in this case infighting in Berlin ahead of elections in September and the desire to keep German voters happy by piling the pressure on Russia to contribute to a bailout.

For now Israel has its new coalition but it's a government conceived in ill-humour with the narrowest possible parliamentary majority.

Then there's ill-judged humour, of course.

Gas is a more merciful weapon than [the] high explosive shell, and compels an enemy to accept a decision with less loss of life than any other agency of war". He ended his memo on a note of ill-placed black humour: "Why is it not fair for a British artilleryman to fire a shell which makes the said native sneeze?" he asked.

Duvall is characteristically excellent, bringing pawky humour and ill-concealed menace to the role of an ex-army gunnery sergeant.