humor
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Playing the high-strung mayor in “Widow’s Bay,” Rhys shifts between droll humor and genuine terror with ease, anchoring the show’s winning blend of real and supernatural.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Shrink Solves Murder” rolls along in companionable fashion, mixing humor, danger and insight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
At least one person in Zvernec has a sense of humor about the proposed development.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Poisoned by the overwhelmingly toxic culture of time, the film’s downward-punching humor is as radioactive as its future’s fallow fields.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
She had a helpless kind of fear about water, about rain, and she’d say God was testing her sense of humor, setting her up in a place called Deep Water.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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
The humors were phlegm, choler, bile, and blood.
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
If I was lucky, Dad humored me and would say, Davon, I’ll show you.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2023
She humored him, and read all the way through Page 1 and moved onto Page 2 before DeHovitz stopped her.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
I humored her harrumphs when my best friend and I waited in line for hours to see the second batch in the late 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
They humored me in class, letting me fake-fight and do my not-that-form-fitting pushups, but the teacher knew it was something that I didn’t really enjoy.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
The tail-wagging golden retrievers and teens humoring their parents cleared out of the way.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Well, there’s nothing wrong with spending an evening humoring rich people in New York.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 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
"We can check," he says, but he's just humoring me.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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