At 6, he watches Lily scooped up by her mother in a spontaneous, laughing embrace.
Renegade's performers are good: they do great set pieces and spontaneous laughs.
I'm spinning like a top, and he's like 'Ohmm.' " In fact, while Mr. Lucas is often called boyish -- he looks younger than his years -- and tends toward spontaneous laughing or weeping, Mr. Schulner was nicknamed Grandpa by his family when he was 14, for his seriousness and methodical habits.
He will make you laugh spontaneously, or will ask you to force a laugh (which usually produces spontaneous laughter).
The researchers discovered that when one chimp laughed others sometimes engaged in "laugh replications" that lacked the full acoustic structure of spontaneous laughter.
When was the last time you enjoyed a piece of theatre so much you regularly burst into spontaneous applause, laughed so hard you stole the show and made repeated attempts to rush the stage?
An important difference, however, is that the less spontaneous, social laughs, tend to trigger greater activity in areas associated with "mentalising" and working out other people's motives – perhaps because we want to understand why they are faking it.
In her brisk manner there's the feeling of someone who has learned to firm up their "sloppy boundaries" with people, but there is nothing media-trained about her spontaneous machine-gun laugh or naughtiness.
Watching the film in a packed auditorium with an audience almost incandescent with expectation, I found myself listening to a chorus of spontaneous gasps, cheers, laughs, whoops and even occasional cries of anguish.
Long ago, Chinese people observed that stimulation to different points of human body could produce different sensations (sour, numbness, swelling, pain, etc)., physiological reactions (laughing, spontaneous limb movement, etc).
