Sentence examples for mordant laughs from inspiring English sources

Tamhane plays these incongruities for mordant laughs.

The show has some mordant laughs.

Letterman's most mordant laughs on Wednesday came when he riffed about McCain's campaign "suspension": "Do you suspend your campaign?

Like many Fishbone songs "DUI Friday" makes unlikely musical connections feel inevitable, while playing hard times for mordant laughs — turning a lament into a party.

She reflects on this, then says with a loud and mordant laugh: "It only took me 12 years!" We are sitting knee-to-knee on a sofa in the penthouse bar of a Los Angeles members' club.

But Walker is no pushover in the brains department, and it isn't long before he is coming up with unorthodox detours for their cross-country trip, which routes them through Chicago to Florida for a big-blow hurricane and lands them in a creepy little village in New Hampshire for one last, mordant laugh -- and an ending so bizarre it could have been written by Ray Bradbury.

Thanks to Dallek's findings, things make sense at an entirely new level -- the decision to run for president at such a young age; the cult of physical vigor; the mordant wit, laughing at life's insults.

The three of us wrote, edited, argued, and laughed at one another's mordant jokes far into the night, night after night.

Instead, he renders Old Fools' meditation on flawed humanity with fitting tenderness, while the bitterly mordant Too Drunk to Dream is a laugh-out-loud funny exercise in magniloquent chamber-pop.

But the satiric songs and broad comic business that turn the story into a parade of mordant comic set pieces encourage us to laugh at a passage in the history of race relations in America that, even at this distance, is hard to view as grimly funny instead of just grim.

A combination of farce and nightmare, Dr. Strangelove satirizes military men, scientists, statesmen the whole ethos of the technological age in the most mordant terms; it shows the doomsday blast, yet leaves audiences laughing.