How To Use Humorous In A Sentence
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Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
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But if you're just play-acting, RP is all a bit of fun, along with the humorous OOC asides.
"Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall."
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This humorous and historically accurate account was extremely well received.
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So the boys decided it was high time someone did a humorous send-up of these books, in the form of a warm, satirical and very funny guide to a country that simply doesn't exist.
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It must be entertaining to hear the peculiar phraseology and observe the humorous vulgarities of these _naiades_, if one could do so
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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The play aims to give a humorous portrayal of the everyday life of normal mums.
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She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
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The humorous tone is designed to encourage disaffected voters to take part.
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There seems to be an unwritten law that football songs should be comic or humorous, or at least not too serious.
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The critics are in awe of the play's fast, violent pacing, its tight structure and the humorous Scottish dialect.
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He was a humorous and gentle pastor of his flock, a good parson who put up a new poster every week to attract people to come to his church.
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And despite their boring reputation, they read more humorous books than any other profession.
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He leads a little troupe of amateur actors from village to village, putting on an old-fashioned dumbshow - a type of humorous play with a stock plot.
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From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
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This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_.
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He was the humorous and satirical idyllist _par excellence_, and laid the scenes of his romances in idyllic surroundings, using the trifling events of daily life to wonderful purpose.
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
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Luke humorously questions Annie as he puts a cheese cracker into his mouth.
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Levels and characters are combined into lengthy cutscenes that play out well and help to maintain the overall humorous feel of the game.
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He commented humorously on his outfit.
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I look at the humorous side of life - laughter is important to me.
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Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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The film is delightfully humorous in the best traditions of romantic comedy.
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A ballad flying from voice to voice across the country, sung at the ingle-neuk, repeated from one to another in the little crowd at a "stairhead," in which the grossest humorous view was the best adapted for the people, represented popular literature.
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In addition, if you look closely at the article you will see it has a certain wry affectionateness towards Labour, and deals with the expenses scandals humorously, pointing out just a few individuals who have apparently failed their genial and public spirited leader.
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I have chatted with him and he seems to be educated, humorous and intelligent.
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Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
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Giovanni Boccaccio, the great 14th century Italian humanist writer offers us a humorous insight into the corruption and decadence of the Church of his day.
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– Among the comedies is the Adam Carolla comedy project that features the humorous radio and TV personality Carolla (“The Man Show,” “The Hammer”) as a contractor who sets out to re-build his life following a divorce.
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Subtle it ain't, dark and humorous it often is.
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Although probably he doesn't: humorous exaggeration is part of Steyn's shtick.
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Just before curtain-up on the first night, with 2,000 people awaiting the start of the show in a specially erected auditorium in the Museum Gardens, Herod, a humorous head of English at a private school, said, "I might vary a bit from the script but let's just play it by ear and have fun, eh?
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The festival is based upon the story told in the Book of Esther, a tale of humorous and melodrama parody of palace intrigue, in which the brave Queen Esther and her uncle, Mordecai, save their people from the twisted genocidal plot of the wicked vizar of Persia, Haman.
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The third is, is it witty or humorous?
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His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving.
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The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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The speaker gave us a humorous joke which suddenly clicked with us and we all laughed.
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The show is an operetta, which is traditionally humorous.
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I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous.
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A pat humorous tale may sometimes arouse a big laugh.
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He can be sarcastic and severe without becoming offensive; his reproof often takes the form of humorous banter.
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Largely visual and performative, her work always includes her own body in a humorous and engaging way.
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All three students agreed it was a lively, humorous, spirited debate and a rewarding experience.
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In listening to these works with their clumsy blocks of tone, their eternal sunless complaining, their lack of humor where they would be humorous, their lack of passion where they would be profound, their sardonic and monotonous bourdon, one is perforce reminded of the photograph of Reger which his publishers place on the cover of their catalogue of his works, the photograph that shows something that is like a swollen, myopic beetle with thick lips and sullen expression crouching on an organ-bench.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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Perhaps in reaction to the deluge of cute cats, people in recent years have been combining the pictures with netspeak captions and other humorous text.
November 25th, 2007
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He had never been the most humorous of people, but this wasn't at all funny.
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Arabian Jazz is replete with humorous instances of recontextualized cultural inheritance, cultural teases, and trickster-like irony.
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She has written her description of him in a mildly humorous vein.
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As to French visitors, it was unlikely that they could make out its meaning, and if they did, as it did not concern them, they would consider it as a humorous boutade.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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The screen and stall work brought from Easby Abbey are of great beauty, and the carvings on the subsellia are quaint and humorous.
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(humorously) a dunce cap, its fundamental group is its set of path loops that has a useful characteristic known as "[[homotopy]]
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A poignant and often humorous memoir, full of energy and life.
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*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Postings and weblogs covering broad topics about Japan, with emphasis on legit news as well as humorous, light-hearted content.
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And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The entertainment fare was peppered with cinematic dance, oriental Thai performances and humorous skits.
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I've always tried to be both humorous and serious at the same time.
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Irish side when courting her as a humorous short cut to a quasi familiarity, for you may call a girl "acushla" and "Ellin darlint" when otherwise you are fully aware, but for the Irish of it, she would have to be referred to as Miss Dodworth.
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The effect of a malapropism is usually humorous, but it can highlight quite profound connections between things.
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Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments, or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
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While that was quite humorous, it is a serious issue and so many men have had their self-confidence eroded by it.
The Sun
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His unique style with witty delivery and humorous asides kept the show humming along.
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These humorous, eye-catching designs are much less of a woodworking project than they are a painting assignment.
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IN THIS ARTICLE: After winning the Nobel prize, Zhu Diwen did not put on the airs of a great scientist, but was full of smiles,(Sentence dictionary) and engaged in humorous and witty conversation.
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That said, West deliberately takes his time building up to the dark arts activities not so subtly parlayed in the title epic-so-as-to-be-a-dash-humorous.
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I have chatted with him and he seems to be educated, humorous and intelligent.
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His humorous remark made everyone laugh.
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Where some have found it crude, others have praised its humorous and unsentimental look at love.
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The event is not coldly cynical or sneering, but humorous and engaging.
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Evans believes the building's form fulfills the need for a humanistic, and occasionally humorous, approach to normally unstimulating work environments.
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The eyes that now rested on her humorously were the beautiful eyes which had once looked into her soul.
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It's a humorous, serious, poignant, moving script, that genuinely explores the value and meaning of education.
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From the humorous to the tragic to the mundane, stereography has left its indelible mark on history.
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He taught classes that were humorous, and he taught us everything in his toolkit without reservation.
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Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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In my twenties and thirties I competed successfully in humorous speech contests.
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The typical Beret statement is playfully provocative, experimental yet mining many of the same humorous and satirical veins tapped by Dada and Fluxus antiart.
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A darkly humorous flipside to Heartbeat.
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Sometimes he would switch his narration from English to pidgin, or to a rhythmic, humorous combination of the two that was unique to him.
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This makes the diction simple and easy to understand with humorous differences between this writing style and other more formal ones.
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I remember an occasion when all the musicians began to breathe at ease on my taking this piece at the true moderate pace: then the humorous sforzato of the basses and bassoons at once produced an intelligible effect; the short crescendi became clear, the delicate pianissimo close was effective, and the gentle gravity of the returning principal movement was properly felt.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
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The lyrics are very neatly turned, and contain poetical passages and lines of genuine humorous character.
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We're awash in a vomitous sea of caustic humorous comment.
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Brian's sketches and poems are based on humorous observations of everyday life.
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It's an intriguing partnership because Timson sounds very humorous, talks in a broad Lancashire accent and swears like a trooper.
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The film is delightfully humorous in the best traditions of romantic comedy.
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His father was still watching him, his expression faintly humorous.
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There are only so many repeat viewings a mildly humorous pro-gramme can withstand before it becomes simply unwatchable.
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You can tell a judge is popular when an usher at his court fashions a humorous painting of him enjoying his favourite pastime of gardening.
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The final dialogue, Imperceptible, is a darkly humorous piece of irony.
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Humour can be an aspect of that but we certainly weren't looking for a humorous book.
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Billy's father Stan is a quiet character, who nonetheless often spouts unintentionally humorous lines.
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He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.
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Doing away with the darkly humorous aspect for just a couple of sentences, there might be something to this.
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I don't know, I keep vacillating on whether I should practice so I could make a point in a very humorous way, or whether I should just stay off it.
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When you hear a line about a duck, you can see the humorous rhyme coming with a grim inevitability.
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I find it humorous that anyone would defend some ribbing of the OS Marketshare "bully", particularly since Easter Eggs in programming is a longstanding tradition.
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Both of the schoolgirl characters are portrayed convincingly, the dialogue being sharp, punchy and humorous.
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The whole set consists of rather humorous songs based on folk rhythms, melancholic dumkas and lyrical or even dramatic romances.
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The first three bedtime stories of the fictitious author have been transformed into a wickedly humorous, picaresque screen adventure for a dark winter's day.
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Normally he asked questions, and had a humorous remark or two.
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A remark that is considered humorous in one culture can cause great offence in another.
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Life on the Tracks is a humorous and heart-rending film which focuses on family life in a Filipino shanty town built either side of a railway track.
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I should add that Dermot is also the Most Humorous Master of Wine I’ve met so perhaps his title should be MHMW.
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The Bob we initially meet is a spunky, chatty extrovert who jumps into cars and prattles humorously to the drivers about music and her best friend and boy troubles.
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There is also a humorous undercurrent as Seventies rock iconography gets a look-in with speaker cabinets of all shapes of sizes.
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He entertained guests at the official luncheon with humorous tales during his time as editor.
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At its best this piece is illuminating and humorous: an engaging start to the Peter Hall Company's rep season.
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Other uses: "photobomb" (inserting yourself into someone else's photo) and "Googlebomb" (creating a lot of links for a humorous search result).
Week in Words
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Dickens had humorously suggested a special service of intercession at St. Paul's Cathedral
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It will be by turn harrowing, hopeful and darkly humorous.
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The husband-and-wife producers of the Oscar-nominated film "Precious" will be working with the author and a screenwriter to adapt the humorous heroine -- a wise-cracking third-grader -- for the big screen.
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This humorous play has a serious undercurrent and will give audiences as much food for thought as it does laughs.
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Practice in the speech of pleasantry may have great value in giving a man repose, in giving him that saving grace, an appreciation of the humorous, in affording him a means of relief or enlivenment to the serious speech.
Public Speaking
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I found it quite humorous though.
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It was this love of music that gave rise to one of the few truly humorous incidents of our caverned life.
The Moon Pool
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But I am willing to admit, since the truth is out, that it has long been my custom in preparing an article of a humorous nature to go down to the cellar and mix up half a gallon of myosis with a pint of hyperbole.
Further Foolishness
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What I find so humorous is that Obama has said what you guys have WANTED TO HEAR since he announced his presidency in Jan 2007.
Showdown in Dededo
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Something that I find to be darkly humorous is that I think Obama has lost his belief that he, through his power of the One, can resolve the Palestinian issue and I am beginning to think he blames it ON the people calling themselves Palestinians.
J Street apologist miscounts Israeli options. | RedState
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The Canadian Brass are known for a version that is both jazzy and darkly humorous.
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Reality Check videos help you separate the misinformation from the facts in short, informative and often humorous point / counterpoint scenarios.
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He was quite humorous, and I liked that about him.
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The aggressive and coarsely humorous moments are mostly unconvincing.
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This is bookended with a humorous gag reel of flubs and mistakes by the cast, crew, and gremlins!
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The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, nursing a ruptured/herniated intervertebral disk and therefore unable to attend, who commented humorously by video from South Africa that he could not imagine his friend and fellow Nobelist The Dalai Lama being told in heaven, "you are a wonderful man, but because you are not a Christian ....
Sunil Chacko: Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World
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My last post included the word atlatl as a humorous rhyme.
The Random World of Awesome
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And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
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The poet ranted his humorous verses before a big crowd.
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Joyce thought this last remark was humorous.
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The director humorously portrays the clash between traditional values and modern life.
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The incorrigible nanny provided the majority of the laughs throughout with her classroom scene and exercise routines the most humorous of the panto.
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On this low, wind-harried stretch of land, on which Nelson Mandela would later spend more than two decades, Sila breaks stones in the prison quarry, cleans the warden's home, survives in the company of the few other women prisoners, especially Lys, and sings a fierce, sometimes maniacal, sometimes wickedly humorous love song to her dead son.
Yvette Christiansë talks about the background to her novel, Unconfessed
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Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery.
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Mani is so great in Hindi [humorously] ... it was the easiest way to explain to him.
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The opening line is humorous, touching,and declamatory at one and the same time, its pentameter rhythm sedate and arresting.
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When I say "cartoonishly," I mean probably a solid third of the words of this novel are devoted to telling just how mean the Nightside's streets are, in terms so escalatingly hyperbolic the effect really becomes humorous--intentionally, I hope.
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The stories that spring to mind while looking at this work are both humorous and unsettling, bubbling up from one's unconscious like twisted fairy tales.
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There is (barring a possible double meaning or two) nothing of the kind generally known as licentious; it is the merely foul and dirty language of common folk at all times, introduced, not with humorous extravagance in the
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The humorous joke is common property.
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How ironic, then, that Bush's deceptive subtlety has enabled her to investigate the kind of subject matter even the most brazen hip-hop queen would baulk at covering, such as paedophiliac desire, incest, cradle-snatching and, in the blackly humorous "Heads We're Dancing", the quandary of a woman who realises she's been dancing with Adolf Hitler.
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Finally, there is a humorous blooper reel of Kermit and his friends flubbing their lines, and a batch of theatrical trailers for other Columbia family films.
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He was widely known for his warmth, generosity, and modesty, and for his fund of humorous and interesting anecdotes.
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He elaborates this notion by pointing out how humorously out of place someone of ‘high culture’ and ‘refined’ taste would seem when placed amidst a group of spitting, catcalling men.
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Coleman also presented an original and rousing lecture at MCA that included slides of Coleman himself looking at the work in the exhibition punctuated by humorous yet insightful commentary.
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His humorous remark made everyone laugh.
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The few spurts of humorous dialogue are like, well, an oasis in the desert.
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He gave a humorous account of their trip to Spain.
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The essays add up to a warm, vivid and often humorous portrait of his birthplace.
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At seventy-four, he published humorous verse in Latin.
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This can lead to humorous variations, such as buffing someone with Underwater Breathing in the middle of the Barrens.
Civicus
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The scope for interesting and humorous plots for each cartoon strip seemed (at the time) to be endless.
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The drawings - a cozy firelit cabin in some snowy place, Homer's presence as a shadow on the wall - are gentle and humorous.
Shes not bad, shes just drawn that way, doh!
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And few are more humorous, possessing the ability to be simultaneously self-deprecating and boastful.
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whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it
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I thought the term humorously outrageous in American Pie and then annoying once it became widely “accepted”.
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In fact, the figure lounging in front of me seems in some respects more human than fox, effortlessly graceful, endearing without being obsequious, and persistently humorous.
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Fun-loving, spirited, humorous and attracted to outdoor amour, be warned that these high energy, exuberant wooers set a strapping pace.
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Put comedy into your commute by listening to humorous books on tape.
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If they ever did come to earth, they would probably attempt to live among us with vaguely humorous results.
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Page 103 they have been humorously styled "parasitical," as being hangers-on or dependents.
The Confederate First Reader: Containing Selections in Prose and Poetry as Reading Exercises for the Younger Children in the Schools and Families of the Confederate States.
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Here she is engaging, wry, humorous and as good a writer as she was a photographer.
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The dialogue is laconic, direct, sometimes drily humorous.
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The story also is an example of how kernels of truth are often contained in jokes or humorous anecdotes.
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Here is a rare combination: a clever sitcom script that also contains a wildly inventive, amazingly humorous musical.
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This, too, is often humorous.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It will be by turn harrowing, hopeful and darkly humorous.
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Perhaps it was this little performance that prompted the author to fulfill the pledge of his title and make this guide to the missions a really intimate one; by supplying us with colorful descriptions and humorous legends concerning the setting, customs and lives of the Padres and their Indian followers.
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That is what I was kind of humorously trying to do there with that video.
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This book is such a perfect send-up of the primary Heinlein themes, and such a jaundiced/humorous take on where the genre's thralldom to Heinlein has taken the field that it is practically a manifesto and declaration of independence for those who are critical of "traditional" SF.
MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
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This literal difference in duration does not detract from a work's capacity to induce hypnotic, mind-numbing, humorous or even claustrophobic effects.
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From an early age they were convinced it was impossible to make wise decisions without considering the humorous ramifications of plans gone awry.
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He'd make humorous, taunting faces or just out-do her hits with an unserious blow or a tickle.
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The illustrations are full of vitality and have their humorous touches.
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I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Her latest book is a humorous look at teenage life.
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Mrs. Blackwell writes her teasingly about what she calls her obtuseness, going straight ahead with her work, never knowing when she was snubbed or defeated, giving the undiluted doctrine to people without ever perceiving their frantic efforts to escape, and ignoring all the humorous features of the campaigns.
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The tales are sometimes dryly humorous, but often just heart-breaking.
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It touches on a lot of issues humorously but never gets too intense.
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The tales are sometimes dryly humorous, but often just heart-breaking.
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In the Sushikiri ceremony in front of the shrine steps, two select young men, with slow, elaborate ritual, each slice up 10 funazushi, remaining unruffled as their elders shout humorous advice at them from their seats on the steps.
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You can tell a judge is popular when an usher at his court fashions a humorous painting of him enjoying his favourite pastime of gardening.
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You do not need to be a great comic writer to give written or spoken communication a humorous edge.
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In 1995 it caused some confusion among the population at large, because for many Russians casting their vote the word gubernator sounded outlandish and dated, and prompted a humorous reaction.
Languagehat.com: MER/GUBERNATOR.
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The artwork is early Doris Matthaus watercolor and can be seen in the pictures: cartoonish, humorous and chucklesome.
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She passionately and humorously discusses the idea of genius, success, and creativity.
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The screen and stall work brought from Easby Abbey are of great beauty, and the carvings on the subsellia are quaint and humorous.
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It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of _viscus_, It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled parasitical, as being hangers-on or dependants.
Types of Children's Literature
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Buy the latest Robert Crais or Robert B. Parker instead, and be pleasantly surprised by how literate, humorous, and touching a hard-boiled detective novel can be.
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Tiring at last of this diversion, he turned his attention to his sleeping companions, and being in a condescending humour, and observing that the lankiest of the two sleepers was nodding at him, the humorous greyhound raised his front paw and passed it over the face of the slumberer, who thereupon murmured heavily, "Pah! don't taste it, your honour!
A Hungarian Nabob
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Hip-hop's black essentialism and ‘keepin’ it real’ proclamations are vulgarized, even mocked by Lee's humorous and satirical photographs.
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He humorously compares the amount of metal in his body now to ‘a small Erector set.’
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In the spirit of facilitating self-organization, oishii is a kind of pheromone trail allowing me and others to find the resources other members of the hive found useful, interesting, humorous, or for some other reason worth visiting again.
Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
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Historical: blackface was used in minstrel shows and later in blackface sketches in more mainstream vaudeville to humorously denigrate African Americans.
SNL's Fauxbama Blackface Thing
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They continued to walk along in the garden, Mack enchanting her with his flatteries and humorous stories about himself that he made up on the spot.
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Behind the bidders, above their heads, we can see a frieze of decorated tiles, its design of two lions after the same lioness humorously echoing the action below.
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For purpose of plot, Don Lockwood has a humorous sidekick / friend, Cosmo Brown.
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Just one note of interest: I did find it humorous that in the original timeline, Ben killed his father with poisonous gass, but in the alt-timeline he kept him alive by changing his oxygen.
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Wonder Woman, often times written very pretentious and regal, is written to show her humorous and compassionate side.
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See sitcom phenomenon re: heavy-set man with culturally-approved size 2 babe, also see humor vs. erotic phenomenon re: male nudity is generally only accepted in a humorous context, i.e. Borat's hotel chase scene (we're still uncomfortable with female sexual appetite) whereas female nudity, in almost every context, is used to evoke sexual arousal.
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
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If you do it with wit, you can give the appearance of being humorous while transmitting quite clearly what your feelings are.
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