Sentence examples for teasing humor from inspiring English sources

There were also moments of teasing humor.

Young Antonio Carmena (in brick) was a revelation, investing an unexpected buoyancy, sensuousness and teasing humor in his role.

Holbrooke has been known to yell (during the negotiations over Bosnia, he browbeat the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic), but his usual strategy, in the manner of Lyndon Johnson, is to deploy cajolery, flattery, criticism, analysis, implied threat, teasing humor, fibs any means at his disposal to exert his will on a counterpart.

The two pieces these Tokyo-based performers presented at the American Dance Festival on Thursday night at Page Auditorium here were theatrically big and bold and filled not only with the requisite angst but with dark, teasing humor.

The defiant fugitives resemble both Thelma and Louise and the lesbian lovers from "Bound" (and also those from "Mulholland Drive"), while their frustrated efforts to dispose of the corpse recall "The Trouble With Harry" (although "Gasoline" has none of Hitchcock's teasing humor).

Roast a colleague who enjoys bawdy or teasing humor.

The pianist Jeremy Denk, seemingly gaining recognition everywhere these days, was the superb soloist in the Mozart concerto, exuding personality, teasing out humor with widely varied touch and articulation, dropping in elegant embellishments, tagging along with the orchestra to end the piece.

The younger Mr. Mezvinsky, a bespectacled, mop-headed Stanford graduate known for his confidence and teasing sense of humor, "had no clue," Mr. Zauzmer said.

The deep connection between Farrah and Ryan stronger then ever, with the teasing and humor in full throttle.

Children with AS appear to have particular weaknesses in areas of nonliteral language that include humor, irony, teasing, and sarcasm.

Sarcasm is fine if it's aimed at them, but get a feel of their sense of humor before teasing too much.