NOUN
- the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
How To Use black humor In A Sentence
- I know that I have exaggerated or made hyperbolic the abuse in my family when talking about it tangentially, either out of black humor or bitterness.
- Not to forget the cynism which comes along soft-footed and of course the black humor. Archive 2009-11-01
- black humor
- In The Apple in the Dark, written in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just before she left her marriage, a black humor, conveyed through decrescendo and juxtaposition, is the offsetting fruit: The Brazilian Sphinx
- Not to forget the cynism which comes along soft-footed and of course the black humor. Today in Fantasy: November 25, 2009
- Both games are full of nasty, sadistic violence, leavened just enough by irony and black humor to be tolerable.
- Black comedy aims at revealing the bitter and absurd reality in a tone of black humor.
- What ensues is a battle of opinions, highly charged action and black humor.
- Its a black humor, but that desperate laughter and camaraderie is often what makes the jobs bearable and keeps us there, and I suppose that was something I wanted to both celebrate and lament. Catherine O'Flynn - An interview with author
- By the time I finished grade school, my sense of dark, black humor had been honed to a fine point.