NOUN
- the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
How To Use black humour In A Sentence
- Johnson's film also contains at least one decent surprise, a nice line in black humour, and looks very stylish throughout, while being laden with religious imagery - referring to the crucifixion and the stigmata on several occasions.
- These days whole web sites are devoted to this kind of black humour.
- Transport links were reopening and black humour was resurfacing as well.
- Eclectic learning, pungent black humour sometimes degenerating into facetiousness, a stately but singular style, distinguish all his writing.
- This Spanish drama has a vein of black humour running through it.
- You can hear the family influence: her brother's propensity for melodrama, mom's acute eye for telling lyrical detail, dad's mordant black humour, along with her own caustic imagery.
- The phrases are sharp, uncluttered, often loaded with an understated black humour.
- There are lashings of bloodthirsty violence in the film, but plenty of pitch-black humour too.
- She also revealed the black humour used in the surgery.
- Even the problems have unexpected black humour, such as the last-breath-of-a-dying man problem.
