Sentence examples for mixture of humor from inspiring English sources

But what makes the story so Levian is the mixture of humor, detachment and underlying disgust.

The group strives to revive that "mixture of humor and crisis" that characterized the postwar years.

Dorothy's rare mixture of humor and truth and a lovable nature made her a light in the world.

When my friend J. R. talks about her driving phobia, I hear a tense mixture of humor and embarrassment in her voice.

At the rehearsal I attended, on Wednesday, Mr. Barenboim lingered less over details but coached the players with a mixture of humor and gentle admonishing.

Mr. Skolimowski draws on his own alienation from foreign surroundings (as he would do later in the 1981 "Moonlighting") to depict the young man's emotional disconnection, which leads to the expected disastrous results in a mixture of humor and horror.

The hospital records concerning the treatment of the French disease show that the pox was conceived as deriving from a patient's particular complexion or temperament that is, his or her individual and natural mixture of humors.

"My show will be a mixture of spirituality, humor, darkness, color and light," she said.

And so, to some extent, has the man who once kept them, a fact he acknowledged with a mixture of pride, humor and a touch of sadness.

We learn a great more about Richard, who comes fairly close to being an ideal father with his mixture of confidence, humor, optimism and general openness.

But she is also, like the Marschallin in Strauss's "Rosenkavalier," an aristocrat who faces aging with a bittersweet mixture of fear, humor and resignation.