Sentence examples for time a joke from inspiring English sources
"Nobody could time a joke the way he could time a joke," Willie explains.
The radio Keillor knows how to tell a story and how to time a joke.
"Every time a joke takes off," Wen says, "it chips away at the so-called authority of an authoritarian regime".
Let's stick with movies, where the very idea of a mainstream is at the same time a joke and a reality.
Black, white, male, and female, O'Connor's characters, Walker says, are "miserable, ugly, narrow-minded, atheistic, and of intense racial smugness and arrogance, with not a graceful, pretty one anywhere who is not, at the same time, a joke".
"I'll ask the actors," LaBute told me, "how many times a joke worked.
A century later, the Boston-born Benjamin Franklin ("time is money") proposed a version of daylight saving time as a joke to stop slothful Parisians from sleeping in.
This alternated with those arguing that the importance placed on the 40 time is a joke.
This show, about four single friends who have difficulty finding mates, has a hard time making a joke of the inherently laughable process of dating.
(Time for a joke: in the year for which North By Northwest was eligible, 1959, Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith won the acting Oscars for Ben-Hur).
