Sentences with phrase «chortling from»

Lots of chortling from the Tories.

The comment evoked a chortle from Prasher, whose typical manner combines irony and earthiness.

As the griffon spread its wings and menaced the other birds, Alam, an enthusiastic birder, chortled from behind his binoculars.

Not exact matches

We may well chortle at Coyle's belief that God actually urges faithful dieters to abstain from fattening treats, or at Shamblin's insistence that the deity «is too smart to let somebody like Weight Watchers or Jane Fonda be your savior and get all the credit» and so «will not let other diets work.»

It does not emanate from One who can safely chortle, from a safe distance, at another's pain.

- the earth does crack, the ground yawns wide before you, and a moment of hope and freedom and reprieve bursts in your heart, before you hear a rumbling chortle pour forth from the secret, chthonic places of the deep, and you realise even the bowels of the planet have come to void their stinking mirth all over your shoes.

The details help make this example work (note the various pictures from your profile integrated in, plus the fact that a couple of your friends» names appear on Glenn's chalkboard, plus the frequent use of your hometown, plus the fact that your name is sometimes «hand - written»), but what really seals the deal is that the writing is funny as hell (the French version of Beck evoked a chortle).

A trilling ha - ha - ha or hearty chortle might seem like the most effortless thing in the world, but laughter is actually a multifaceted neurological process that recruits circuits from all across the brain.

I remember chortling about the first Gulf War, too, thinking how funny it was that our military pounded fourth - generation Chinese armour with bombs left over from Vietnam in a withering blitz that left Saddam Hussein's vaunted «million man army» of non-volunteer soldiers buried in their trenches and surrendering to the press.

But before you can even finish that chortle, «NOT BASED ON» is yanked from the screen, leaving you with only «THIS IS A TRUE STORY.»

Throw in allusions to everything from Monty Python to Benny Hill, «The Simpson» to Looney Tunes, Charlie Chaplin to Harold Lloyd, the beautifully animated adventure is a total joy that never gets old or wears out its welcome, building to a spellbindingly hilarious conclusion that had young and old alike chortling with laughter during my viewing.

One coffee - spitting chortle came from Automotive News top dog Keith Crain, when he declared that the move from Detroit «can only mean that someone» — an indirect reference to Johan de Nysschen, Cadillac's new global chief — «wants to live in New York.»

From research probing the blissful state of ignorance to a study proving toast does indeed fall more often with the buttered side down, author Marc Abrahams offers amusing anecdotes to make readers cackle and chortle, and perhaps even scratch their heads and think.

I actually chortled to myself when they announced Grid; lights flared, and a big metal lattice with some squares bearing the «Grid» name lazily slid in from both sides of the stage.

The works of Jake and Dinos Chapman will keep scholars chortling in the library a century or two from now.

The simple truth is that renewable energy costs more, and that hurts the poor, who are doubly stung as their tax dollars are given as subsidies to wealthy speculators (like Warren Buffett, who chortled that the subsidies are the reason he makes money from wind).