Sentence examples for underlying humor from inspiring English sources

Weaver methodically classified the principal problems involved in translating Alice into five areas: the verses, the puns, the use of specially manufactured words or nonsense words, the jokes which involve logic, and the otherwise unclassifiable Carroll twists of meaning with underlying humor 81-822).

The objective of this study was to examine the neural systems underlying humor processing in individuals with cataplexy.

This progression from an initially promising but misleading integration from left frontotemporal associations, to medial prefrontal ambiguity evaluation and right prefrontal reprocessing, may reflect the essential tension and resolution underlying humor.

Comprehending puns may involve identifying multiple meanings of a word, embedding it in right contexts, and understanding the underlying humor.

The underlying humor comes from early Looney Tunes cartoons and Youtube channels like "How to Basic".

The producer also highlights the "underlying humor in the lyrics," citing the line "There ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box".

To get around that cognitive complexity, computational humor researchers have by and large taken a more concrete approach: focusing on simple linguistic relationships, like double meanings, rather than on trying to model the high-level mental mechanics that underlie humor.

Underlying the humor is an incisive investigation of the ways cultural forces shape private lives: the constant clash between Emily and her children has as much to do with generational differences as with questions of temperament and personal inclination.

North Carolina lawmakers were the butt of jokes at this session on sea level rise, but underlying the humor was a sense of anxiety, even desperation.

It is undoubtedly a tribute to Nancy Meyers's savvy that she has figured out how to smuggle in oddball touches and eccentric nuances into movies that otherwise might play as resoundingly mainstream, and she has clearly learned something from the screwball comedies she so admires about the desperation that underlies humor.

For humor, the question on models underlying the sense of humor and humor measurement have led to important advances in the field, yet also raising new questions: What is the nature of the sense of humor?