Serious, yes, but also much laughter.

Wilson's statement was brief, with Powell intervening: " Don't eat them too quickly ", which provoked much laughter in the House.

It has the episodic, revue quality of so much contemporary comedy — not building laughter, but stringing it together skit after skit, some vile, some boffo.

There was always much singing and laughter as the bonfire burned brightly lighting up the whole downtown.

", which led to much of the house collapsing in laughter.

About the battle itself, Canibus commented that " Sometimes people need laughter and entertainment at the expense of others embarrassment but Hip Hop means so much to me I don't care.

In a bar, a burst of laughter behind his back is at some joke cracked about him ' that deeper acquaintance with the patient reveals in fact that ' what tortures him is not so much his delusions of reference, but his harrowing suspicion that he is of no importance to anyone, that no one is referring to him at all '.

( Genesis 21: 4 ) For Sarah, the thought of giving birth and nursing a child, at such an old age, also brought her much laughter, as she declared, " God hath made me to laugh.

" which was followed by much laughter and booing from the audience.

One further aspect of King Henry's retinue was the presence of a two royal monkeys covered in gold leaf, these were known to have been gifts from the Ottoman Sultan Selim I and brought much laughter and merriment from Francis I as contemporary Cardinal Wolsey recounts ' The French King was overcome with much curiosity playing with those little knaves that did all they could to steal and pester his advisers, yet he willed them to be present at every banquet '.

The purpose of this ritual is purportedly to shame old maids, but these days, the dance is accompanied by much merriment, laughter, and good-natured teasing with no real shame attached.

" to much laughter in the chamber.

It was received however with much ribald laughter and antagonism.

" Mel Brooks also made a statement to the same paper, telling them that Dom " created so much joy and laughter on the set that you couldn ’ t get your work done.

Being asked during the official investigation why he had brought his ship models into safety but not the ships themselves, he answered that the former were more valuable, much to the incredulous laughter of his accusers.

", to which the audience would laugh-except that on at least two occasions, the contestants correctly answered the question, shocking Bruce, who accused the contestants-though in a humorous manner-of " ruining the show ", prompting much more laughter from the audience.

Jaymz used a ' Beatallica Arschwaschlappen ' to wipe Hannes Holzmann face much to the laughter of the sold out audience.

During the episode, a visibly irritated Gene Simmons ( bass ) and Paul Stanley ( guitar ) tried to contain the bombastic ( and drunk ) Ace Frehley ( lead guitar ), whose nonstop laughter and joking overshadowed the rest of the band, though Snyder was obviously enjoying it, chiming in with several jokes, much to Frehley ’ s delight, and Simmons disgust .. Drummer Peter Criss made repeated references to his large gun collection, to the chagrin of Simmons.

Although the show initially went well in sales based on Crawford's name ( for a time, the show played to packed houses in previews, and was in fourth place in terms of high-selling Broadway grosses without even having officially opened ), the humor received some laughter and much criticism.

The album won an ' ARIA award ' for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Album and much laughter ensued.

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, liked the direction of the film, and wrote, " Their story is told in images of startling beauty and great overflowing energy ; it is rare to hear so much laughter from an audience that is also sometimes moved to tears.

This is clearly a pre-determined gag judging by Tim's reaction which gains much laughter when done.

Almost everyone there was a Cabinet Minister in one or other of the two Jugoslav Governments, and there was much shouting and laughter as one blue and phosphorescent Excellency cannoned into another, bobbing about in that cerulean twilight.

Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

Nonetheless, they take time out -- much time -- from the game of grab and these new Western experiments to go to the gardens and riverbanks.

Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

In fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

In our own time we have seen that the novelist's debt to psychoanalysis has increased but that the novel itself has not profited much from this marriage.

But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

A much larger room, adjacent to the lavatory, served as a passageway to and from the skimpy toilet.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

Sherman had accomplished this much of his job and then inexplicably nullified it by his thirty-mile retreat from Lovejoy's to Atlanta.

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.

He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him.

Congressmen returning from recess say the people admire President Kennedy so much, they're even willing to heed his call to sacrifice -- and give up his program.

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.