Especially in cases when the actors are desperately trying to stifle the laugh — biting their lip, digging a knuckle into their cheek, nearly smacking themselves in the face — we feel their discomfort, and we laugh partly to try to make them feel a little better.
I am sitting there, rereading Michiko Kakutani's review ("misconceived and offensive"), wincing, laughing, biting my nails, marvelling at the power of the critic and also at the baseness of the critical pursuit, when I hear a voice, elegant, subtle, drifting from my Sony boombox (vintage 1994).
The site's critical consensus reads, "The Simpsons Movie contains the hearty laughs, biting satire, and honest portrayal of an American family that makes the show so popular.
She snatched his hand and, laughing, bit him on the inside of the thumb, the soft flesh at the base of the thumb.
Mr. Grossman laughed and bit into an Almond Joy, and drank some chocolate milk.
In the early afternoon, there is Dan Ingram, on "Your Ingram Singram" or "Your Ingram Flingram," announcing that he is there "laughing and biting, and scratching".
She laughs and bites her lip, and I can feel the gripping contractions of it telegraphing up my fingernail.
People are usually very disappointed when they meet me," Karen O claims with a laugh, before delicately biting down on a beef slider.
Animal Cracker Versatility Supervisor - 2006 to present Have pioneered methods of dunking lions, tigers and bears in milk, as well as maniacally laughing while I bite their heads off.
He laughs, and takes a bite of his sandwich.
