humor

R.E.M. always had a sense of humor that felt like it got forgotten or overlooked once they were playing stadiums.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

If that’s true, may Workman’s sweet, intoxicating humor hasten its arrival.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Examples of Mr. Iñárritu’s underwhelming-to-inert sense of humor include having the men move their heads in unison and object to a derogatory term for women because there are ladies present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Raptors fans were appalled by the comments, but Barnes responded with humor on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

She had a great sense of humor, she could throw down in the kitchen, and she was surprisingly good at video games.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

In early medicine, those questions were keys to the bodily humors — four substances linking physical illness to emotional states and shaping how physicians and patients alike understood their bodies and lives.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

According to the best medical theories of his day, Dr. Harlow diagnoses an imbalance of bodily "humors."

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

Colin had never gotten that before Hassan, because everyone else either humored or ignored him.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

“What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?” a senior Republican official told The Washington Post.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 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