Sentence examples for laugh to keep from inspiring English sources

"You have to laugh to keep from crying these days," Lynn Mayo, the office manager at the G.M. dealership, said as she wiped away tears.

When his doctors told him that he needed a bone marrow transplant, and that it could cost $350,000, he said he had to laugh to keep from crying.

" 'Homeland' is a really intense approach to what is going on in Washington, but it's also fun to be on a show where we laugh to keep from crying about the political situation," he said.

I always say you've got to laugh to keep from crying, because there are those days when you sit in the stands, and your teammates are like a family".

"There's the saying, 'Sometimes you've got to laugh to keep from crying,'" the film's lead, Teyonah Parris, told the Los Angeles Times when asked about criticisms of Chi-Raq's tone.

The main cast decamps to Sofia – a place still trying on capitalism like an itchy pair of new pants – as a unit for five weeks at a time, and the kinship of a travelling circus has formed; a willingness to do whatever's necessary to get the laugh, to keep each other's spirits up, to piss about during uncomfortable, cold and often arduous shooting days.

He laughed tentatively, and Patrick laughed to keep him company.

I hope you're just laughing to keep from crying".

So what's the problem?' We all laughed to keep from crying".

But in building and sustaining a mood of anger and outrage while delivering enough laughs to keep an audience amused, it carries off a neat balancing act.

See the titles of his books, such as his novel "Not Without Laughter" (1930) and his book of stories "Laughing to Keep from Crying" (1952).