Sentence examples for note of humor from inspiring English sources
She hits every rueful note of humor and regret in Williams's dialogue.
Mr. Zinnato finds just the right note of humor and just the right seasoning of pathos.
In these images, Lucas is commanding and sober-seeming, even when her environs offer a subversive note of humor.
It also treats a dark topic with a note of humor: the wolf locks Grandma in a closet instead of eating her, for example.
While she hits every note of humor and lands every bitchy nuance in Callas's assessments of her students and her unacknowledged rivals in the opera world, her underlying sorrow is palpable.
A mildly amusing coda (very mild) at a police station sends you off on a note of humor but it's far too little too late.
There were notes of humor, some of it barbed, about vote tampering, like a sign that said "146 percent of Muscovites are for free elections!" Some protesters carried badminton rackets, a sly reference to a pastime of Mr. Putin and President Dmitri A. Medvedev.
Certainly, the movement-oriented director John Tiffany showed us something new about "The Glass Menagerie" — which has never received a Tony nomination until this year — just as Kenny Leon found notes of humor and female power in his revival of "A Raisin in the Sun".
The twin notes of humor and longing are telegraphed in the last words of the book's epigraph, from Shakespeare's As You Like It: "My often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness".
Bebe Neuwirth was the evening's host, providing a welcome note of wry humor.
Tall, well-spoken, and blessed with a delightful Southern twang that injected a note of homespun humor into his lectures, Hackney was among my best professors.
