Sentence examples for instead of laughter from inspiring English sources

What's left instead of laughter is a rather sour implication.

As for the writer's contention that puns are sometimes greeted with groaning and scorn instead of laughter, remember what diamond cutters say: "They can't all be gems!" Don Hauptman New York, March 28, 2009 The writer is the author of "Cruel and Unusual Puns," a celebration of spoonerisms.

The result is a show that's only gently amusing but, as Smith gets on with singing the songs, offers something else instead of laughter: an understated account of the solace songs offer us, and of the way our favourite artists soundtrack our lives.

A satirist can subsist on applause instead of laughter.

The numbers indicate that liberals should be eliciting caution and diligence instead of laughter and dismissiveness.

Instead of laughter and pure joy, there might be whining and vomiting.

I can think of sardonic laughter, I suppose, and laughter instead of crying laughter.

Instead of nervous laughter, the women encouraged one another with a chorus of "Amen" and "Go ahead, baby".

Instead of the laughter of comedy or the heart-melting sentiment of a personal tribute, he offers her impressive, evocative abstractions that appear intended to arouse something like pure awe, not at the wonders of existence but at the awesomeness of Greg himself.

The trouble with making a single camera comedy (a comedy that doesn't have a laugh track and isn't performed in front of a studio audience) is that you're forced to make a judgment call if something is funny based only on your instincts instead of actual laughter.

There's a slight smile instead of roaring laughter.