Sentence examples for manic humour from inspiring English sources
There were other moments of manic humour.
Geldray was sometimes given a few brief lines of his own to utter, only to be interrupted on air by the Goons' manic humour.
Beaton's second picture book is rich in egg-shaped infant chrysalises and her trademark manic humour, which will appeal to both parent and child.
This is from a poem ("The Proper Halo") that he wrote in the 1980s, but it could have been written at almost any period in Redgrove's life - exact, excessive, delighted, with a touch of manic humour.
If it's difficult to believe that somebody born in the 1990s has written a book as good as Lolito, then perhaps that is appropriate: it is exactly the kind of patronising sentiment that Brooks skewers, with all the humour and manic invention one could wish for, in this tale of 21st-century love.
He "used the freely associating thought processes of his manic states to generate the zany humour and the wildly ridiculous ideas that were the hallmark of his depression".
In novels such as The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March 19533), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), and Humboldt's Gift (1975), Saul Bellow tapped into the buoyant, manic energy and picaresque structure of black humour while proclaiming the necessity of "being human".
In a small back room in the National Theatre, Walsh and Murphy make for an odd but entertaining pair: the former slightly manic and possessed of a gleefully dark sense of humour; the latter utterly laid-back and altogether more reflective.
Newport's capacity for dark, bleak, absurdist humour – the kind that informed the young Manic Street Preachers to write the line: "I laughed when Lennon got shot" – is one of its defining characteristics.
His public appearances had for a long time been characterised by a manic repetitiveness (particularly of the word "wicked") and a blinding good humour that looks, in hindsight, like the exaggerated high of a very big low.
