Sentence examples for transparent joke from inspiring English sources
The last time I reviewed Lou Reed in this column, I made what I thought was a fairly transparent joke about taking heroin in the toilets beforehand.
Also, it was only a six-month suspension, which is a joke, a transparent attempt by the government to make sure they get votes in the European elections in May.
"His transparent daily behavior, his jokes, everything is dedicated to this way of living: he's new money".
Jokes serve a transparent purpose: they reclaim the power to define — and inhabit — reality.
On first hearing, it can seem a transparent rip-off if not a bad joke.
Stock-market listing was also meant to make societies more transparent, but that sounds like a bad joke when you think about Northern Rock's esoteric offshore vehicles.
In taped conversations released by the CFTC, traders on the TET market joke with BP traders about their transparent efforts to corner the market.
That's like a Zoolander joke that the writers rejected for being "a bit transparent".
Most folks are not transparent about their actual feelings on Facebook -- in fact I joke all the time that I wish I could be as happy in real life as I pretend to be on Facebook.
It's the sort of intimate private joke that every family has, and, despite the satirical elements, "Transparent" is reflexively compassionate when it comes to human mess.
Most comic novels — think of anything by P. G. Wodehouse, say, or Ring Lardner — are fairly transparent: they unabashedly try to be funny and let the reader in on the joke.
