Sentence examples for slight humour from inspiring English sources

I also love the slight humour factor to it when you find some in areas you least expect.

In her hands, comedy is a powerful weapon though even she suffers a slight humour by-pass over critics, and spends more time than is healthy picking apart written assessments of her shows.

If this film had the slightest sense of humour, it might at least have shown him munching on a unicorn.

They're portraits of stony-faced old people who were staring into the camera without the slightest hint of humour.

In addition, The Independent remarked that the album was full of "swearing and scatology" and was "bereft of even the slightest skidmark of humour".

WITH his easy manner, shrewd sense of humour and slight southern drawl, Tony White is a far cry from the popular perception that a high-tech executive should be unpredictable and slightly peculiar.

And up in the gallery, under the hidden glass roof, men in caps and berets were leaning their elbows on creased oilskin cloths and drinking tea in an atmosphere of slight steam and weary good humour.

It seems the social and political developments of recent years have not mellowed Sharpe's sense of humour in the slightest.

And this, perhaps, is the most radioactively ironic aspect of Allen's fate: he may be a gossamer-touched director, able to elicit extraordinary meaning and humour from the most slight of vignettes.

What follows is a nostalgic vision of a more innocent England that made me feel a little homesick when I saw it on Tuesday, for all its slight clunkiness and Carry On Sergeant-style humour.

Humour's one sure way of deflecting a slight, after all.