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...ordinarily mock and inflate themselves. If anything, the one implicit joke is on the author; there is only the awkwardness of a character self-consciously using a cell phone over a pay phone, or complaining about the steep minority of smokers in American society. Readers don’t laugh at Johnson’s noir-by-the-numbers. They laugh at the absurdity of a noir parody being published in 2009. And even laughing is a stretch.Could Johnson possibly be serious? Was the “Playboy” serialization meant to invoke the memory of past contributors such...
FlyBy went to visit the Dalai Lama’s tree today to try to soak in some holiness, to center ourselves, if you will, before finals. FlyBy sat with the tree. FlyBy ate lunch with the tree. FlyBy even tried hugging the tree (don’t laugh. This is a serious post. We are talking about the Dalai Lama’s tree). Nothing...
...State Fund last December and is president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. Hutchinson says Thomas was married with children. "I knew [Thomas] was quite a bit older than myself," he says. "I used to ask him what was the secret to his youthful appearance. He'd always laugh, with that smile of his, and essentially say, 'Just good living.'" (See pictures of the LAPD cracking down on homicide rates...
...mostly confined to a Sunday-midnight niche - a glorious grotto, whose saints are Lon Chaney, Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Marion Davies and other stars of MGM silents. The slot also is home to early masterworks from France (Jacques Feyder's Queen of Atlantis), Germany (F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh) and Sweden (Victor Sjostrom's Phantom Carriage). The country doesn't matter; all these films speak an eloquent visual language...
...beverage: diet Coke topped off with real soda to trick his tongue. He has a set drink to napkin to burger ratio: “I’m a two to one or three to one drink to burger guy,” he says, laughing. His laugh is half giggle, half husky football player chuckle. And he has a set condiment routine: “I take the mustard, and I move from left to right, up and down like this,” he motions on the table, “ and make little, you know, sinusoidal...