Thehumouroriginates from the fact that you will often be convinced that you know, or have been taught by, the precise teacher being described.
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Unlike the child, the humorist, who sees life in terms of totality categories, recognizes thehumourinherent in revoking.
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It risks being boring and trying the audience's patience, but succeeds in drawinghumourfrom a blend of anticipation and surprise.
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But to those who knew her, it was even more herhumour, her enthusiasm, her generosity, and her integrity for which she will be remembered.
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And you had a great sense ofhumour: we had many good laughs together.
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Meanwhile, seasidehumournow appears to lie more in exposing the realities beneath the old archetypes.
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A scherzo displays bluff, boisterous goodhumour, leavened by a ruminative trio section.
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They focus on its absurdities and thehumourto be derived from seeking to regulate human behaviour by means of formal rules.
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Deliberately mixing genres is the source of muchhumour.
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This type ofhumour, satire, can be difficult to translate outside its immediate context.
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For one thing, he said withhumour, the future could hardly be expected to rely on men as old as he was.
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For instance, the following love letter achieves itshumourby being written in the form of a formal business letter.
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The king humoured him, and was amazed when the old man succeeded - not only in bringing down the mango, but in splitting it in two.
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From the author's experience, his style was distinctive: frequently challenging, often with a touch ofhumour, always totally supportive.
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Further analysis revealed that all subjects (patients and controls) were susceptible regardinghumour(minimum laughing frequency=3).
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Collocationswithhumour
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dark humour
Their song lyrics are characterised by themes ofdarkhumour, desperation, tongue-in-cheek self-aggrandisement, criminality, the drudgery of everyday life, work and office politics, and human/animal behaviourism.
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good humour
A scherzo displays bluff, boisterousgoodhumour, leavened by a ruminative trio section.
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great humour
He always bringsgreathumoureven to his indignation.
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