NOUN
- the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
How To Use black humour In A Sentence
- The book is fully documented, and written in a vigorous style with touches of black humour.
- It is one of his most heartfelt works combining all the pungency, political commitment and black humour of his best plays.
- Well, that's going too far - but it is certainly Swiftian satire, black humour or gallows humour.
- By now, were all tuned in to the film's peculiar brand of black humour and laugh heartily at the doomed toons plight.
- His black humour and satirical wit are cultural as well as personal traits.
- Scenes will discomfit you, partly because the dialogue is not quite up to the mark in his quest for black humour.
- But I mostly appreciated the book for its great mixture of black humour, satire and teenage rebellion.
- It is in incredibly bad taste," he said. "The pigeon finishes up dead in the middle of the road - it's black humour which we don't find amusing.
- These people are also kind of childish, and if confronted by the world directly seem to only be able to understand it in terms of black humour.
- It's all here: the suffusion of the scientific with the erotic, the fascination for catastrophe and mutation, the Burroughsian black humour, provocative notions about ‘creative cancer’ and ‘omnisexuality.’
