Sentences with phrase «certain black humor»

There's a certain black humor to the situation (Alvarez uses the belated arrival of a «Day 2» title card to underline how fast things got fucked), but also a charge of real - world resonance, extending beyond the boundaries of the experiment depicted to more ugly examples of group think and abuse of power.

Further problems was a bloated, top - heavy bureaucracy which was harassing citizens and the response was a certain black humor on all Warsaw Pact countries.

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Although the mental and physical problems from metal toxicity have escalated in recent years, our very language tacitly acknowledges the historic toxicity of certain metals: «Mad as a hatter» from the Civil - War - era's crazed use of mercury sizing in hat manufacture, «gold fever» from the murderous greed of early prospectors, «lead poisoning» as black humor for «getting shot,» and, more recently, «get - the - lead - out» exhortations from trainers who would have us exercise long and hard in order to sweat out toxins and melt excess fat.