Has familiarity blunted the edge of their humorousness?. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight New Moon – movie review] Reference
Whatever you do, do not apply your own personal cognitive skills to determining the humorousness of any particular clip. From Wordnik.com. [How to cover satirical political events - chuckle in a non-genuine manner] Reference
Then in order not to mind too much I loosened my roots, floated a few feet off, and grew to look at things with a faint, pleasant humorousness that spiced my nose like the beginnings of a sneeze. From Wordnik.com. [Earthly Possessions]
In his reflections his glance had lingered again upon the pocket-book which Neigh still held in his hand, and upon the two or three rose-leaves on the floor, until he said idly, superimposing humorousness upon misery, as men in love can. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
They are new and fresh and strong, as life always is, and fable never is; and the stories of The Conjure Woman have a wild, indigenous poetry, the creation of sincere and original imagination, which is imparted with a tender humorousness and a very artistic reticence. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
She had a keen appreciation of the humorousness and quaintness of children. From Wordnik.com. [Perpetual Light : a memorial] Reference
Yet his eyes, almost bedded in hair, have often the bright peeping humorousness of a shaggy dog's. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
This tragic humorousness had the double effect of showing us the dilemma, and taking the edge off the horror of it. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
Though now thirty-five years old, he had not lost the humorousness which had procured for him the sobriquet of "Laughing Tam.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Thomas Telford]
When he opened the newspapers and found the advertisements of the flats, she saw the engaging, half-awkward humorousness come into his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
Belief in the general humorousness of the human race is the more deep-rooted for that every man is certain that he himself is not without sense of humour. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
And when he says something funny it is in such a delightful and confidential way, with such a genial, quiet, infectious humorousness, that his audience is captivated. From Wordnik.com. [Acres of Diamonds]
Even in flying by one sees flashes of fantastic gargoyle-like resemblances to persons one has known, caricatured into impossible contortions, as if by some mediæval humorousness. From Wordnik.com. [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference
There is an odd sort of point, if it can be called a point, on which I would fain say something — and that is an occasional outbreak of sudden, and it may be felt, untimely humorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Spare Hours] Reference
The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
Accounting for the subjective nature of humor, I have to say that I don't think that chapter's jokes were funny, nor do I think Endou accomplished much in pushing the material beyond its inherent humorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
The most prominent fault, after what we consider rather an uninteresting and prosey beginning, is his miserable attempts at wit; his genuine humorousness -- his keen sense of the ludicrous seem to have forsaken him. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852] Reference
He was always of an ingratiating humorousness and endeared himself by an apparent readiness to enter into any joke that was going, especially that of startling the pedestrian by his own sudden apparition from behind a tuft of grass or withered stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Its history has a whimsical bearing upon his character, illustrating his ardent, uncalculating zeal; his sanguine temperament; his public spirit; his odd perceptions; and that dash of comic, headstrong humorousness that, I think, has reappeared, after the shifting of one generation, in Ned. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness; -- yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness; — yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah’s ark. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Evaluate the humorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Steeping.travesties humorousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mark Kleiman responds about courts, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo cases:] Reference
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