Likewise, though Mr. Moore's latest film is intensely barbed, it shares the mocking tone and humorous, grandstanding gestures of his previous features, including "Roger & Me" and "Bowling for Columbine".
Like bookends on a shelf, the repetition of the verse creates a frame within which the poem sits, revealing in a self-mocking, humorous way, the habits of a lifetime that have brought a father-of-two to this point in his life.
The one-minute video, in which three female dancers performed microscopic movements that caused their bodies to shake and shudder, went viral, producing thousands of comments and memes — some gently humorous, some more mocking.
Yet in "Body Awareness," Ms. Baker worked hard to treat him the same way she deals with all her characters: with humorous empathy rather than mocking laughter.
"The emotional side is traditional, harkening back to deep values" like patriotism and love of family, he added, "and the humorous side is irreverent and slightly cynical," mocking conventional wisdom and questioning authority.
In "The Secret Cause of Flame Wars", Epley explains "People often think the tone or emotion in their messages is obvious because they 'hear' the tone they intend in their head as they write". That means that comments, emails or posts initially meant to be friendly, joking or humorous can instead be interpreted as sarcastic, mocking or downright nasty.
But these cables show the Americans literally laugh at them and their sycophancy, describing their servility in mocking tones in cables back home, saying "it would be humorous if it were not so corrosive".
It's a grimly humorous sequence in which the Weaver figure always seems to be mocking him.
Crispin, Porter won the Grand Prix on Saturday night for a humorous commercial for the American division of Ikea that encourages consumers to buy furniture and appliances by mocking sentimental feelings about old household goods.
I wrote my mother comical letters, and she replied somewhat in kind, taking a mildly mocking tone about events in town and at church — I remember her describing a row over the right way to cut sandwiches for a ladies' tea — and even managing to be humorous but not bitter about my father, whom she referred to as His Grace.
