Sentence examples for interpreted as a joke from inspiring English sources

Only a few weeks ago, Mayor Giuliani's proposal to sell the building, raised in his State of the City address, was widely interpreted as a joke, akin to a remark a year ago that the school system should be blown up.

"It will be interpreted as a joke, while we are dealing with a serious problem".

One could reasonably be interpreted as a joke on the black community which conveys black male culture as misogynistic and ignorant; the other is a joke on that section of the white community who over-identify with black culture and make themselves look ridiculous in the process.

The use of the cartoon Smurfs has also been interpreted as a joke that although Avatar had a famously large budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, the film amounted to little more than a Smurfs-like cartoon.

The subhead on the Politico story -- "The campaign says he was referencing gun-rights voter mobilization, but the remark was widely interpreted as a joke about using guns against his Democratic rival" -- is about as close as any of them got to explaining the importance - and the outrageousness, and perhaps the criminality - of what Trump said.

The smile has been variously interpreted as a sort of joke at the absurdity of it all, or the illusion of happiness in lives inevitably heading toward extinction.

Even the author's bio ("R. Kelly, the king of R&B, makes music of epic proportions") can be interpreted as a self-aware joke or a cocksure statement of purpose.

While this was first interpreted as a fourth wall-breaking joke, the game's climax goes deeper into Raiden's connection with the player.

So it was with a real sense of sadness and revulsion that we listened to Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, as he referred to the options available to "Second Amendment people," a remark widely, and we believe correctly, interpreted as a thinly veiled reference or "joke" about the possibility of political assassination.

Humor is very subjective, and there's a chance that what you think is a joke could be interpreted as a serious threat by the police.

But the routine was remembered less for the laughs and more for the racially charged joke about "CP time", which De Blasio explained meant "careful politician" time, but was widely interpreted as a reference to "colored people" time.