black humor

Example Sentences

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Mr. Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The film is chock full of black humor set against steampunk visual design.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

Gilman’s script offers black humor, suspense and a crushing ending.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2023

The movie is admiring, but not fawning, and makes a fetish neither of Fox’s suffering nor his equanimity — sometimes amounting to black humor — in dealing with it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2023

He reminded Tyrion of Bronn, though Bronn had a sellsword’s black humor and Griff had no humor at all.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin