Sentence examples for laughter largely from inspiring English sources

It was a very Yorkshire comedy, canned laughter largely replaced by canned grumbling as the dangers of relegation became stark.

The merchandise they are hawking is the every-night-is-Halloween wardrobe and accouterments to activities at which every child who watches "South Park" has learned to howl with laughter, largely because once upon a time it was supposed to be dirty.

In Kaufman's production, much of the first act strangely feels like a pleasant parlor comedy, and the laughter largely undercuts much of what is poignant about this tragic tale.

Their interest in the therapeutic potential of laughter was largely spurred by the publicized recovery of the editor Norman Cousins from a usually progressive, crippling spinal disease, ankylosing spondylitis.

At the performances I saw, the show unfolded with comfortable familiarity and knowing laughter from a largely black audience that was pleased to see itself credibly rendered onstage.

Robert Provine has demonstrated that in the wild, laughter is a largely social behaviour, a way of making and maintaining social bonds.

I know that the sources of laughter are infinite and largely unknowable to all but a precious few.

Surrounded by her depression, Marjorie provokes waves of laughter from the audience, largely because she is played by Linda Lavin, who has a signature way of turning malaise into comic delirium.

That it succeeds at all -- that the film elicits moments of genuine feeling, rather than the derisive laughter it deserves -- is largely thanks to the three principal actors.

But the origin and diffusion of religion, like the origin and diffusion of music, laughter, and xenophobia, reside in a largely irretrievable evolutionary past.

The speech met with laughter and applause from an audience composed largely of CIA staffers.