Miss McCarthy has a mind of terrifying clarity, and she writes like a fallen angel, by turns humorous and rueful.
His memoir Shadows Round the Moon (Flamingo) evokes a Caribbean childhood that is by turns humorous and painful.
She tells a tale, by turns humorous and almost harrowing, of falling in with some locals in a bar in Montello, Nev.
Mr. Arafat, who is 72, was alert and lively, by turns humorous and defiant as he reflected on his decades-long rivalry with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his current predicament.
She tells a tale, by turns humorous..
And this is where Angelina is sly and even funny, for as dead serious as some think this movie is, Jolie also knows when the picture turns humorous.
Wearing prickly hats and pinched expressions as Demetria, the sharp Ms. Reed adds comic astringency to a play that turns surprisingly humorous in the second act.
Mr. Burris, a 71-year-old former state attorney general, seemed by turn defiant, humorous and blasé.
In it, she is by turn ebullient, humorous and biting as she recounts her decades in the theater and her long but ultimately triumphant battle with alcohol -- as well as the toll it periodically took on her career.
Always thoughtful, often ghostly, her art can also turn wickedly humorous: in a rural temple, a monk lectures children on dharma and right livelihood by showing a huge image of Jeff Koons in the company of two bikini-clad models next to a reproduction of Artemisia Gentileschi's "Judith Beheading Holofernes"—suggesting that the students should not commit adultery or they could lose their head.
