humor

The horrifying humor, the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone wrong, the monstrous image of the fat man dressed up as a whore dressing up as a baby ; ;

So they parted when she was in an impatient humor.

Shocked at the response to our proclamations, we grow more defensive, and worse, we lose our sense of humor and proportion.

Mr. Watson did not have much humor in his make-up, but he managed a mirthless smile.

The gruesome humor of the Nazis was not forgotten -- the gas chamber with a sign on it with the name of a Jewish foundation and bearing a copper Star of David -- nor the gratuitous sadism of SS officers.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years, working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook and the campus newspaper.

Discordians use subversive humor to spread their philosophy and to prevent their beliefs from becoming dogmatic.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

Marino wrote that although the series ' humor was rooted in video games, strong writing and characters caused the series to " transcend the typical gamer ".

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

" Internet humor " is distinguishable from " Humor on the Internet " through the concept of ownership.

It was released to major acclaim ; reviewers praised the interactivity of the environment, level design, gameplay and unique risqué humor ( a mix of pop-culture satire and lampooning of over-the-top Hollywood action heroes ).

It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

He had a deep voice which was full of good food she had cooked, and good humor ; ;

He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he didn't have Jim's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm.

The film extracted both pathos and cruel humor from the scenes of Zoolander's return home, when he entered the mines alongside his father and brothers and Voight's character expressed his unspoken disgust at his son's chosen profession.

Two of the most popular are Penny Arcade, focused primarily on video gaming, and User Friendly, which bases its humor on the Internet and other computer-user issues.

Other U. S. humor magazines of note include former Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug, Trump and Help !, as well as the National Lampoon, Spy, and The Onion.

Knuth is known for his " professional humor ".

" If you have any sense of humor about your strip — and I had a sense of humor about mine — you knew that for three or four years Abner was wrong.

By 1990, after efforts by Wendy's agency, Backer Spielvolgel Bates, to get humor into the campaign, a decision was made to portray Thomas in a more self-deprecating and folksy manner, which proved much more popular with test audiences.

In 1994, he wrote a humor book called Cheap Advice.

A large portion of humor comes from the relatively normal Max's personality sharply contrasting with his father.

A rather small number of direct transliterations have survived as common words, including 沙发 ／ 沙發 shāfā " sofa ", 马达 ／ 馬達 mǎdá " motor ", 幽默 yōumò " humor ", 逻辑 ／ 邏輯 luójí " logic ", 时髦 ／ 時髦 shímáo " smart, fashionable ", and 歇斯底里 xiēsīdǐlǐ " hysterics ".