humor

Venn says it’s clear that at their core people tend to share the same sense of humor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

“I loved the fact that there was humor, and self-deprecating humor and a grouchy character,” says Chandler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

It was Thoreau who remarked that “the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible,” and one wishes at times that Mr. Nichols wrote with a lighter touch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

In Chandler and Pierre, “Lanterns” has an extraordinary pairing that sustains enough frustration, humor, passion and regret to keep us rapt through the episodes provided for review.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

I wanted to say something back to Daisy but I figured that as long as Mama was in a good humor I had better leave well enough alone.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

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

They thought their health was all about the balancing of bodily humors.

From Slate ● May 8, 2024

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

Kempton’s lawyer, played by a wryly bemused Matthew Goode, humors his client by arguing that the Goya wasn’t stolen so much as borrowed.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022

This theory, which goes back to the ancient Greeks, declares that health is maintained by a balance of four liquids, or humors, in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

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

Petite, unfussy and good humored, the artist tuned in to her visitor’s questions with the focused attentiveness that she brings to painting, and recalled names, dates and events from her life with remarkable clarity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

He behaved grandiosely, like a special prize that Aunty Uju was fortunate to have, and Aunty Uju humored him.

From "Americanah" 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

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

One diplomat compared it to humoring an angry relative who controlled a family vacation estate, and periodically threatened to burn it down.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2018

And when I saw that box I remembered the boy at Warren and the lousy lamp he made and the way we were all humoring him, pretending he had done something wonderful when he hadn’t.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes