Sentence examples for malicious joke from inspiring English sources

He's made an old man's malicious joke about the universality of folly.

"Barton Fink" (1991), for instance, was a bizarrely malicious joke on a left-wing playwright (John Turturro Clifford Odetsets as he might have been imagined by Nathanael West.

The comedy (revived at London's Royal National Theatre, under the vigorous direction of Max Stafford-Clark) is built around a malicious joke.

His name had managed to make its way into police files in Switzerland years earlier as a result of a malicious joke.

But with Andy laughing cynically and grinding Hank's ego to bits, and Hank so terrified that he can't stop trembling, the story of two reckless brothers becomes a volatile farce about schmucks on the loose — an old man's malicious joke about the universality of folly.

Before killing their victims, Mr. Montemayor said, soldiers made malicious jokes.

And if one in fact finds "malicious jokes" funny, "is one therefore morally complicit?" Pigliucci thinks the best way out of this conundrum is offered by Aristotle, who said with characteristic wisdom, "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it".

Chances are, they're a malicious practical joke that could end up harming your computer badly.

A little man, interested in the arts, the sciences, and technology, an able courtier and a magnificent host, he was eccentric, given to malicious practical jokes, and a terror to his wife and children.

One, called "Too Famous," would be set in the present and would star Eminem as the kid who is given the chance to indulge every nihilistic fantasy of stardom as if the music were no more than a pretext to get at the real backstage goods -- the opportunity to be a cartoon Caligula in his own little kingdom of cruelty, malicious practice jokes and ebullient self-destruction.

That should only happen when the joke is malicious or, as is more often the case, draws its "humor" from lazy stereotypes".