Sentence examples for joke seriously from inspiring English sources

There are philosophers who take this joke seriously.

Who could have guessed they would take her joke seriously?

It began as a kind of joke, but I soon began to take the joke seriously.

He had always maintained that he did not believe anyone would take his "silly joke" seriously.

You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" He has always maintained that he did not believe anyone would take his "silly joke" seriously.

He said he sent the tweet to his 600 followers in a moment of frustration after Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire was closed by snow in January 2010, and never thought anyone would take his "silly joke" seriously.

Such humorists (even when they take their jokes seriously) are peculiarly useful to an impatient, critical people like the French, who, especially when troubled, would be under the necessity of inventing such persons, as Voltaire said of someone else, if they did not already exist.

Indeed, "he's one of the first philosophers who took jokes seriously," said Stern, the William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy and director of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.

Consider the possibility that you're taking yourself too seriously and that your inclination to take people's jokes seriously ends up being a reflection of this.

Taking jokes seriously can be a form of manipulation or arrogance where you are trying to "act the martyr" or "play hurt" in order to get another person to see your point of view or do something your way.

But the police in Granite Shoals urged people not to take their joke too seriously.