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Example sentences for: humor

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Both Times remember to get past the famous war book's humor to also include Heller's overwhelming depiction of the death of the gunner Snowden.
Last fall, Morris gave an interview to the Door , the world's funniest evangelical humor magazine, in which he traced the arc of this sort of spiritual/professional recovery.
The authors might also have discussed the deliberate use of taboo words for their shock (or humor-inducing embarrassment) value by so-called “x-rated” comedians, especially performers like the American Lenny Bruce and the British Jerry Sadowitz and Kevin Bloody Wilson: some of that humor can be heard on British television, where some of the studio audience are evidently easily convulsed by the mention of words like shit and fart .
There is little humor in this book, either in the joking or the situations described, largely because of the analytical approach: nothing makes a joke fall flatter than having to explain what is funny about it, especially when it was not particularly funny to begin with.
Moore is known for her wordplay, wry humor, and smart, bitter female protagonists; this collection is said to show a "deepening emotional chiaroscuro" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times )--Moore's most warm and powerful to date.