Word: mirthfully
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...said of laughter, "It is worthless," and of mirth, "What's the point?" And I set unto myself to get acquainted with the ways of wisdom...
Then I commended mirth, because a student hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat and to drink (preferably outside of the dining halls) and to hang out with friends: for that shall abide with him all the days of his life, especially if he takes pictures...
...terrible mirth...
...even as they cope with revelations of sexual infidelity and suffocating possessiveness. When the cheated-upon hostess is carried upstairs, hysterical, Colin assures the others she has always been high-strung from overwork at pleasing people. Ayckbourn too fiddles the emotional gears so deftly that the mood jolts from mirth to horror and back, sentence by sentence...
...course, every watcher of Carson or Letterman has seen male clowns air the same kind of grievance; provoking mirth for a living has never been a laughing matter. The difference today is in who does the complaining. Observes Poundstone: "A comic was telling me the other day that she thought she had started too late in life. I thought, Geez, this is one of the few areas where that doesn't mean a thing anymore. This has become an ageless, genderless job." Funny she should say that. This is the year that Paula Poundstone becomes 31, and Henny Youngman turned...