Sentence examples for tough funny from inspiring English sources
They can be tough, funny, waspish, kind, mordant.
"His theater is tough, funny and right on target," Mr. Albee said.
But Ms. McCormack in particular brings a likably tough, funny texture to the often thankless job of mother of the pregnant bride.
In the Book Review, Grace Glueck called it a "tough, funny, bitchy and sometimes touching report from the scene of the disaster".
Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" is a ravishing dream of violent gangster life in the thirties — not a tough, funny, and, finally, tragic dream like "Bonnie and Clyde" but a flowing, velvety fantasia of the crime wave that mesmerized the nation early in the decade.
This was the Big Boss in action, smarter, tougher, funnier than anybody else in the room.
It pained him to hear Drew, whom he recalls as one of the toughest, funniest, warmest women he knows, sounding so defeated.
But for Miéville's dedicated and growing readership, Kraken succeeds in reforming the urban fantasy around a tougher, funnier and more intellectually demanding core.
Wilder takes the Broadway play, as well as the genteel camaraderie familiar from the British POW films, shakes it all up, makes it tougher, funnier, cruder and subtler.
Mr. Eastwood "has the good sense to realize that, much as we may adore him, we'd sometimes rather spend time with Ms. Adams, who somehow grows tougher, funnier, scarier and more charming with every role".
