Sentence examples for laugh of recognition from inspiring English sources

It is a laugh of recognition – a loud smile, really.

Part of coining a good neologism is being able to truly understand what the word is about — to give a laugh of recognition at the experience.

Several colleagues from Baghdad balked at it, but I found that Iraqi friends gave a wry laugh of recognition, so I left it in.

Yet he immediately put everyone at ease, drawing an opening laugh of recognition with: "If this were a real and proper tribute to Dad, then this eulogy would have started about 10 minutes ahead of schedule".

"When was the last time you saw a child who wasn't in need?" he asks at one point, and gets a loud laugh of recognition from all the mums and dads.

There were quite a few bitter laughs of recognition".

And all would be forgiven if the theatrical work awaiting inspired thoughtful analysis of New York identities, or prompted rueful laughs of recognition, or satisfied on a sensual level.

"Carlos would ring my bell at 7, 8, 9, 10 at night and he'd want a dollar," said Doris Wellington, 78, drawing laughs of recognition.

Watching Tony Blair's "education, education, education" speech on television, she yelps with fear: "Why is that man saying that over and over again?" This line got one of the biggest laughs of recognition I have ever heard in a cinema, because that fatuous repetition is pretty scary.

There were laughs of recognition, and friendly applause, and at the end white doves flew over Fenway Park and a spotlight illuminated the No. 9 etched in the left-field grass, and as the lights were dimmed at dusk, the old boys trotted out in their creamy home uniforms and a bugler played taps.

What is it that good cartoons do to bring that delicious, laughing, liberating squirm of recognition?