humor

Having a shared sense of humor also helps, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The genius of “The Glass Castle” lies in Ms. Walls’s ability to transform horrific moments of parental malfeasance into scenes of humor, vitality and resilience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Mitchell, 52, is not especially well known in America, outside the not inconsiderable number of us who live on British humor, but he’s spent his whole adult life making comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Did anyone in your family shape your humor and your storytelling?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"I don't share your sense of humor," Mr. Subramaniam says.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Health was a state of equilibrium, according to this view, a precarious balance among the body’s four humors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Sure, it would take until the 19th century for the germ theory of disease to overtake the concept of humors and “miasmas” that could damage human health.

From National Geographic ● May 25, 2023

The theory of bodily humors has long since been discredited and discarded.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

If the opinions of others aren’t an issue to you, and you want your son to express himself in a way that humors him, then continue along the same path.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2021

This concept stated that good health resulted when body fluids, called humors, were in balance.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

He is hired as an intern by a phony physician whose reputation is founded on knowledge of “a certain professional slang, humored by a medical face.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

For the most part, employees calmly placated or humored them, with some ignoring the trio or asking them to leave.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

If I was lucky, Dad humored me and would say, Davon, I’ll show you.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023

Or it may simply be that he humored her and did not think much of her opinions in the first place.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The tail-wagging golden retrievers and teens humoring their parents cleared out of the way.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

As I have grown older, I have come to realize he wasn’t being humored by me as much as he was humoring me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Over the time I’ve interviewed Franco A., senior defense officials have gone from humoring my queries about extremist networks to publicly sounding the alarm.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2020

If you are communicating to him in any way that you’re humoring him, I believe this is a serious misstep.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2020

“You’re some kind of nut,” Jerry said, humoring him.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier