Sentence examples for purpose of a joke from inspiring English sources
These monotonous little routines of office life - the rigid etiquette of remembering who you should make a cup of tea for; the office jokes that everyone politely smiles at despite the fact they fail the fundamental purpose of a joke, ie being funny; the interest you feign in the progress of an infection afflicting your desk-mate - are basically the highest expression of our civilization.
You know that moment where Wile E. Coyote, in pursuit of Road Runner, runs right off a cliff and, for just a second before he falls, hovers there, levitating in thin air, warping the laws of time and space for the purpose of a slapstick cosmic joke?
"The purpose of the Holocaust joke," explains Addison, himself the victim of an anti-Semitic hate crime, "is identical to the purpose of the joke as a larger proposition: the infliction of cruelty on the reason-inundated mind.
Have you ever put $5 in a Sex and the City slot machine for the purposes of a sad, ironic joke only you were there to witness?
Have you ever put five dollars in a Sex and the City slot machine for the purposes of a sad, ironic joke only you were there to witness?
Have you ever put money you worked hard to earn in a Sex and the City slot machine for the purposes of a sad, ironic joke only you were there to witness?
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore). said Wednesday that acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg should be replaced after calling the notion of smoking marijuana for medical purposes a "joke". .
Buonafede is the victim of a joke.
The museum was sort of a joke".
