Sentence examples for uneasy laugh from inspiring English sources

She gives a shrill, uneasy laugh.

SCHWARTZ (with a short, uneasy laugh): Wait until we get the decision.

After a long pause and a short, uneasy laugh, she says: "Fundamentally, everybody wants change, and I'm not going to sit here and judge other people's efforts.

We all had a good (uneasy) laugh at the stupidity of teachers at a Texas school who thought a homemade clock was a bomb because the 14-year-old bright kid who made it was a Muslim.

Unhappy that I've had such thoughts, and uncertain what to do, I seek out the one person who's sure to understand; when I seize her arms and look into her eyes, I see the same melancholy, the same longing for something unknown; and as I burst into a dark, uneasy laugh, I hear, all over the room, like the cries of many animals, the sound of her own troubling laughter.

She let out an uneasy laugh.

A middling zombie movie elevated by clever writing and gooeylicious special effects, Kerry Prior's "Revenant" toys with big themes but settles for uneasy laughs.

Kentridge's precisely timed attempts to intimidate or ignore his split selves, and to catch and retrieve the projected images of notes, drew somewhat uneasy laughs, but the audience stayed with him.

As Madea, Mr. Perry isn't on-screen as prominently as in the previous franchise entry, "Madea Goes to Jail," but when he is, it's often to lecture those off their moral footing (and, in one scene, repeatedly to slap a back-talking young boy, to uneasy laughs).

It's the uneasy joke you can't enjoy laughing at.

Something seems askew — the fitful, awkward laughs have an uneasy undercurrent — but Mr. Goldberger doesn't reveal his hand until he restages the scene from Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" in which Barbara Stanwyck, born to kill in sunglasses and a blond wig, shops and schemes with Fred MacMurray.