gallows humor

Lee’s combination of righteous inquisitiveness, gallows humor, authentic love for the city and eye for novel ways into events that have been dissected to death make him the perfect interlocutor for this particular story.

I love the gallows humor between rescuers and the stories patients tell us on the back of the ambulance, a confession box on wheels, that they don’t tell anyone else.

Instead, their feelings are expressed in small moments, through a tender touch, a burst of anger, or a shared laugh over a bit of gallows humor.

Finding new ways to frame this problem, with the height of internet gallows humor, became a staple of online coronavirus discourse this year.

Gallows humor has always served him and other activists well; it had to in such dark times.

There was a lot more gallows humor and a lot less talking about your feelings.

Over the next week, he entertained his three children and six grandchildren with his famous gallows humor.

Needless to say, the gallows humor that is a hallmark of my former profession has lost much of its luster.

Some would-be SEALs turn to gallows humor to endure the pain, telling themselves “the only easy day was yesterday.”

And his bitter gallows humor had furnished a wry relief to grim reality.

Valentine, in fact, was seized by that desperate merriment which is known as gallows humor.