Sentence examples for note of humour from inspiring English sources

That impact will be multiplied in Australia, where the crowds will be double or triple in size and the message will be delivered with overt hostility and barely a note of humour.

As buildings burn and innocents falter, Lake-town's greasy Master (Stephen Fry) attempts to make off with the loot, introducing a note of humour to the carnage ("if only we could save more people, but they're just not worth it"), selling his soul down the river as Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) strikes out with his righteous arrows.

The note of wry humour with which I thought I had addressed the question was nowhere to be heard.

Marson's account, though, sounds a surprising note of black humour: he hid from Downie in an adjoining room, readying to defend himself with the nearest object to hand – the script for episode two of "Timelash".

The camera coyly turns away before the subsequent kissing becomes something else, but this note of domestic humour is rare in video game representations of sex, which usually either titter at their own (misplaced) sense of transgression, or become, as in the first-person scenes with sex workers in the most recent Grand Theft Auto, grimly dehumanising.

The Taylor sisters, though adequately moral, struck a new note of sweetness, of humour, at any rate of nonpriggishness.

Into all these arenas, the emoticon brings a note of dorky good humour, and for that alone I think we should embrace it.

"Margaret Thatcher was not noted for her sense of humour, but she is in the top five because she said some memorable things, such as this oft-quoted line: 'If you want anything said, ask a man.

The manager is noted for his sense of humour, but black comedy is all we hear nowadays.

Lowe notes that his sense of humour has changed since his early programming days.

Everard notes the "wicked sense of humour" possessed by North Koreans, and tells me that, as a diplomat, he could make jokes with representatives of the North Korean government that would be met with "stony faces" by their equivalents in Washington, DC.