The phrase "laughter upon" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward
It could be used in a poetic or literary context to convey a sense of joy or amusement that follows an event.
Example: "There was laughter upon hearing the delightful news."
Alternatives: "laughter after" or "laughter following"
Behind sunglasses, the feller gave a bark of laughter upon hearing that the pillow cost $395, then the familiar refrain of the Manhattan shopper: "Well, if you amortize it".
I remember her laughter upon discovering dozens of pictures I had taken of myself to see what I might look like to other people at any given moment: me watching TV; me about to sneeze; me on the toilet, looking pensive.
Those gathered in one FCC viewing room gasped and burst into laughter upon hearing Pai's remark.
Underneath the clatter of bicycle chains and the clomp of boots marching, I find the ping of coins tossed at a Buddhist temple, the jangle of tea cups, whistling, a burst of thunder, wind, laughter, rain upon stones, silence.
Further material can be found in Reflections upon Laughter and Remarks on the Fable of the Bees (1725-6), in which he addresses the egoist psychology of Hobbes and Mandeville, and in the multi-volumed Philosophiae moralis institutio compendiaria, ethices et jurisprudentiae naturalis elementa continens, lib.
His reputation rests chiefly on his earlier writings, especially An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (London 1725), Reflections upon Laughter and Remarks on the Fable of the Bees (both in the Dublin Journal 1725 1726), and Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (London 1728).
Kataria told his trainees that laughter yoga "is based upon the scientific fact that, even if you laugh for the sake of laughing, even if you are pretend laughing, your body cannot tell the difference".
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.
Humor is an operation you exercise upon yourself, laughter is laughter at yourself.
And the Roundabout will revive Noël Coward's "Present Laughter," with Victor Garber as the put-upon matinee idol Garry Essendine.
I watched the years drip away from tired bones as Johnny Hoy's music shook their marrow, releasing wave upon wave of laughter.
