Sentence examples for violent laughter from inspiring English sources
In the Republic (388e), he says that the Guardians of the state should avoid laughter, "for ordinarily when one abandons himself to violent laughter, his condition provokes a violent reaction".
Griffin said Duke was a non-violent figure, prompting laughter.
But the focus is always on her face: often ferocious, frequently violent, sometimes contorting in laughter, but always utterly compelling.
Griffin said Duke was a "non-violent" figure, to angry laughter from the audience.
Probing the limits of free speech, he invoked Eminem, an artist who writes violent rap lyrics, and drew laughter when he wondered whether "a reasonable teenager on the internet" would interpret a jilted man's violent comments as evidence he meant to physically harm his ex-wife.
She tried to shake off the laughter as she reported on the violent riots in Brazil.
There's not a cackle among their three laughs instead their laughter recalls children who've fallen victim to violent tickling and are gasping for breath.
It recalls the narrative of King Lear's Fool – the laughter dying, the farce drawing to a mysterious, possibly violent close.
Mary, writhing in ecstatic laughter, vividly realizes Schiller's ambition to draw an unsentimental portrait of a woman whose destiny is "to experience and enkindle only violent passions".
