How To Use Humorist In A Sentence
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Humorist Gene Weingarten visits Battle Mountain, Nevada and describes how the "Armpit of America" grows on him. [washingtonpost.com]
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Except that it has only eight lines, the triolet is also difficult to describe but a nice example of one is aptly titled "Triolet" and written by the American newspaperman and humorist Don Marquis (1878 — 1937), and is taken from his book Dreams & Dust (1915).
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
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You'll meet authors and artists, mothers and fathers, cops and lawyers, gamers and hackers, cooks and waitresses, humorists and essayists.
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At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier.
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At the other end of the vertebrate scale, hominoids have similarly provided the butt for many a joke, while Darwin himself has not escaped completely the humorists' pen or pencil.
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As a syndicated cartoonist, I've seen my published ideas later appear in eerily similar reiterations in other comics and spoken near-verbatim by nationally recognized humorists (to the point where scores of readers and viewers alerted me, offended and outraged on my behalf).
The Riff: From 'SOUTH PARK' to 'POOCH CAFE': When a sense of plagiarism plagues comedy
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As humorist Kin Hubbard once put it, "We'd all love to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
Tom Matlack: The Top Ten Good Men Politicians
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Stephen Leacock ( 1869 - 1944 ) was the enormously popular Canadian humorist in the English - speaking world.
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Later, when other humorists stepped into her territory, she remained the funniest and dearest of them all.
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Chesterton, mystique, mousquetaire de la plume, miroir redresseur de nos travers déformants, humoriste paradoxal et décapant, reste à redécouvrir.
Pour le réenchantement du monde - Une introduction à Chesterton
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If you want to be a humorist, you must have an extremely strong sense of humor.
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Like all the best writers on religion, Anna was a humorist.
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He was not just a great linguist - phonologist, grammarian, semanticist, and polyglot - but a musician, musicologist, Orientalist, and gourmet (he wrote a book called The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters); and a wonderful humorist.
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This can be the combination of orator, humorist, speech writer, or playwright.
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More on Minnesota's Angry Humorist: The New York Post's Page Six column calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
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Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century.
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One day a fellow-student, who pleased himself with what he called philology, remarked that his father must have been a hit of a humorist to name him Peregrine: -- "except indeed it be a family name!" he added.
What's Mine's Mine — Complete
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It is probably the only story the famous humorist wrote which was supported by an affidavit to its truthfulness.
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And the three-volume tome -- unexpurgated, but written cagily, and yet still self-revealingly at times -- has prompted me to pursue one of the great humorist's own personal delights.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro
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Long before the American Idolization of every art form on the planet, the great humorist S.J. Perelman imagined a gnarly New York painter being asked by a vulgarian Hollywood movie producer: what exactly do you artists do in the studio when you get an idea?
The Surrealism World
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Signs of sexual consciousness hidden in them might induce some clues to 'hormonal movement' so as to enrich more their humoristic morals and make the process be led up to meaningful afterthoughts.
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But for a humorist, the wrong kind of seriousness can be fatal.
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The new "tattletale" lights were installed last week on Highway 12 at the intersections of Highway 124 and Humorist Road in Burbank.
Tri-City Herald: Front
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He influenced a generation aesthetic judgment fashion with unexpected and dangerous artistic conception and innovative format and humoristic art style.
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A humorist of the present day has suggested that the knots on the staff indicate the numerous "knotty" questions which a doctor is asked to solve!
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
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International Cartoon Exhibition – Exploitation and workers' rights, a critical look through a humoristic Line!
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At their essence, they were brilliant observational humorists.
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I am a gregarious person and have always been given to being a humorist, but I am also an observer.
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For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist - or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist - possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher - or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist - cuts a far more equivocal figure.
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The wits and humorists, the distinguished worthies of the town or village, the apothecary, the attorney, even the curate himself, did not disdain to partake of this hebdomadal festivity.
Rob Roy
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With his experimental "metafiction" - spoofing literary conventions, leaving sentences dangling, writing an entire novel ( "Gold Fools") in the form of questions - he seemed to place himself squarely in the postmodernist camp; but his ear for American, especially New York, speech, and his attention to the spirit of place and compassion for the average loser, all defined him as a kindred spirit of such great American humorists as Mark Twain and Peter De Vries.
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It has always seemed to us that some of these gentry were influenced by resentment because a humorist had dared to attempt novelism.
Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries
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The humorist kept the balance of satire by laughing at his own follies and doings.
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Comediennes, humorists, film stars and other famous women mouth off.
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I go back to my original ambition of 1980: I wanted to be on the shelf with the classic 20th century American humorists.
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In the early Cold War Era, amid anti-Communist witch-hunts and nuclear threats, most American humorists followed the safe path of presenting apolitical consensus-oriented material.
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
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In yet another of his careers he was a prolific writer and humorist.
Times, Sunday Times
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He influenced a generation aesthetic judgment fashion with unexpected and dangerous artistic conception and innovative format and humoristic art style.
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Directed by Bob Clark (this is great enough to forgive him for Porky's), and written and wonderfully narrated by humorist Jean Shepherd, the film tracks the misadventures of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a beamish lad in the 1940s who wants nothing else for Christmas but a Red Ryder BB gun. — Dean Maurer
Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
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And the three-volume tome -- unexpurgated, but written cagily, and yet still self-revealingly at times -- has prompted me to pursue one of the great humorist's own personal delights.
David Tereshchuk: Celebrating a Virtually Forgotten Media Maestro
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Parody and satire work best when the target is worthy, with some fundamental flaw in their thinking or action that when exposed via a skilled humorist reveals them for the misguided buffoons that they are.
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Rather we read Mark because he is an expert at exposing sham, pretension, and hypocrisy, and because he was the greatest American humorist of the 19th century.
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She co-authored "Home Is Where The Hurt Is" with Tony - and Grammy-winning country humorist Roger Miller, and ghostwrites for television sitcoms.
Cejas and the great escape: Dog rescue in Tijuana
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The humorist kept the balance of satire by laughing at his own follies and doings.
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There are humoristic who think that without Bush the fertile ground for satire will disappear.
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He wasn't funny, in the recognizable joke - telling way; he was a humorist, which someone once defined as a standup comic who's a nice fellow but doesn't make you laugh.
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When my friend told me about this aspect of the pre-interview my scheming humorist mind awakened like a sleeping giant.
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Most contemporary newspaper humorists are sitting in his shadow, whether they realize it or not.
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He is one of the most unique and well-known American writers of the twentieth century, known as both a humorist and a humanist, always reminding us with a reassuring irony not to give up on the human race.
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The humorist posed as a plain uneducated man.
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Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude.
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His are tinctured with some strange termed a humorist in a nation of humorists.
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He influenced a generation aesthetic judgment fashion with unexpected and dangerous artistic conception and innovative format and humoristic art style.
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Though he never really laughed, and was generally absolutely grave, my brother had an incredibly keen sense of fun, and in conversation could far outmaster or "walk over the head" of any humorist whom I ever met.
Memoirs
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American humorist Erma Bombeck wrote "The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
Perfect plants to place over septic systems
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As for the humorist-author, can the book he is jerry-building sell anywhere near so well as he almost desperately counts on?
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The smug satire of liberal humorists debases our comedy — and our national conversation.
Cheap Laughs
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
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The products of a skilled and gifted humorist, are often funny and almost always readalbe.
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She was herself a humorist -- writing entertaining light verses -- and a vivacious talker 'uniting,' it was said, 'strong common sense with a lively imagination' and a crisp epigrammatic phrase ....
Archive 2009-03-01
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A humorist probably doesn't ‘play’ much, but he's happy to be working.
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These affect an air of tired superiority in a world of unoriginal humorists.
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Stephen Potter, a British humorist who has undeservedly faded into obscurity, is the father of "one-upmanship," a strategem for besting an opponent—somewhat unfairly—without actually cheating.
Biz One-Upmanship 101
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Sir Arthur's music, too, is highly "Pickwickian," and the joint effort of the two humorists is infinitely diverting.
Bardell v. Pickwick
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Yours, true to your blood (for you are _Scot Scotorum_), is the humorist's way: how many passengers you have warmed and tickled with your genial chaff, hiding constant kindness under a jocose word, perhaps teasing us Americans on our curious conduct of knives and forks, or (for a change) taking the cisatlantic side of the jape, esteeming no less highly a sound poke at British foibles.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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At least, I think the Bob Morris who made this diagram is the same Floridian humorist who I've been loosely keeping up with for the last fifteen years.
I wrote this for me. Wait. No I didn't ...
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In her debut novel, Kettle of Vultures, Sabrina Lamb showcases her humorist side through the main character and her family, which includes her cantankerous grandmother, Ms. Chickie; her snobby mother, Lee Artist; and her evasive father.
A Kettle of Vultures
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Internet humorists have been having a field day.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a keen humorist and sometimes it was hard to tell which of his remarks were jokes and which were gaffes.
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But a humorist would choose a different answer.
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‘Yes it has, hasn't it,’ says the Oxfordshire humorist, writer, entertainer, comedienne and broadcaster.
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Southern humorist Roy Blount Jr. corrals his sliest essays in Long Time Leaving (Knopf).
Hot Type
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Like my humorists, I prefer my heart docs to be hyphenates.
Stephen J. Gertz: S.J. Perelman, Humorist, Cardiology a Specialty
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A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel's request for an injunction to block humorist AL Franken's new book, whose title mocks the Fox slogan that we have heard many times before, "fair and balanced.
CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2003
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The fine tact of these consummate men of the world derives a humoristic enjoyment in eccentricity of character, which never shows itself in any outward sign beyond the heightened pleasure they feel in what other folks might call dulness or mere oddity. '
Lord Kilgobbin
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Eddie, the writer's father, was a humorist and legendary editor.
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Rabinovich, who went by the pen name Sholem Aleichem ( "peace be with you"), was a humorist and a champion of the Yiddish language - in the words of his
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This German group so far consists of a few amateur humorists, and seems unlikely to grow larger.
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Two of these books are by men with something of a reputation as humorists.
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Little children will leave this movie believing that stammerers and girls with glasses, buck teeth and amorous intentions are ideal subjects for humorists.
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This situation completely changed the rules of the game for humorists, at least in my case.
