Sentences with phrase «drew laughter»

His awkward attempts to pump information from her drew laughter from the audience, exposing a script that aims for drama with elements of black comedy, but lands somewhat wide of the mark.

«Everyone knows that Christine Quinn gave [Bloomberg] a third term, but there's no point focusing on the past now,» said candidate Sal Albanese, in a less - than - subtle response that drew laughter around the room, including a few chuckles from Quinn herself.

A n earlier skit that mockingly highlighted a new ficticious Department of Environmental Conservation program for «catch and release» of unqualified lesbians «back into the wilds of Vermont» drew laughter from the progressive and her crew.

Angela Eagle drew laughter from the audience when she accidentally told the debate: «We're not in the European Union.»

Asked if the political morass in Washington was as bad as it looked, the former treasury secretary drew laughter with his answer at the 2016 Delivering Alpha Conference sponsored by CNBC and Institutional Investor.

«It's not an 8 - 5 job, it's 24 - 7,» he added, drawing laughter from officials at the mention of how his staff has aged during his time in office.

In elegant and accessible terms, he explains the the Bitcoin blockchain system that would at first draw laughter, then mockery, followed by grudging acceptance and lastly, eagerness.

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To explain its relationship to resurrection, John Wesley draws an analogy with human experiences of joy and laughter, stating «the joy of the soul, even in this life, has some influence upon the countenance, by rendering it more open and cheerful.»

Both Peter and Richard were marvelous joke - tellers: Peter with his droll Viennese wit, Richard with his ability to mimic voices and to draw stories out until everyone nearly exploded with pent - up laughter» Richard always laughed the loudest, sometimes slapping his thigh.

In light of the church's unease with laughter and jokes, Screech is drawn to the way two towering figures of the Renaissance, Erasmus and Rabelais, defended and employed humor.

For there would be far less joy and far less laughter would it not be for the tribe of Mamas - in the flesh or virtual - that we must draw around us to do this job with compassion and kindness for both ourselves, our partners and our little ones.

Lots of warm and loving smiles, singsong - like vocal inflections that draw out sounds, as well as touch and laughter will help will keep them focused so they learn to discriminate between sounds and learn how they go together to create language.

And Mr Agyapong's long commentaries on questions without concrete answers also drew murmuring and laughter from the audience in the TV Africa studios.

The former «Sex and the City» actress drew cheers and laughter by referencing a scandalous 1970s campaign stunt that opponents have tried tying to Andrew Cuomo for years.

Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik had an open forum today in the southern part of her district taking questions from a number of angry constituents and her answers drew a number of boos and even laughter.

The more technical parts of Provine's work — exploring the neuromuscular control of laughter and its relationship to the human and chimp respiratory systems — draw on his training at Washington University in St. Louis under Viktor Hamburger and Nobel laureate Rita Levi - Montalcini.

Boxer responded: «You shouldn't be offended by that,» she reassured him, since «the conclusion you are coming to is shared by 1 % to 2 % of scientists,» drawing audible laughter from some onlookers in an overflow viewing room.

Ever since I was a little child I was drawn to those places & still now I am definitely loving all the noise, the laughter, the bright colors that can be epxperienced in carnivals!

Every now and again he would comment «well at least you're still laughing», simply drawing attention to the fact I was filling dinner with nervous laughter.

Some stories would be so humorous that they would draw peels of laughter when narrated.

BLACKKKLANSMAN: draws on the past to talk about today, using laughter, action sequences, drama, shock, calls to action.

Some of this movie's crudeness is forced, its bodily gags and vulgarities certain to draw a reaction from audiences, but not one of laughter.

Within a minute I had laid waste to over one thousand undead citizens, my audible laughter drawing the attention of the other attendees.

Whether drawing recognition at the mall or ridicule laughter at the grocery store, Cheyenne seems largely unfazed.

But Pence drew jeers and laughter from the crowd when he praised efforts to write standards «by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers.»

Years ago, if anyone suggested imported cars would make inroads into the highly tariffed South Korean market, he would have drawn much laughter from analysts, and even from the man in the street.

Tibb's laughter makes the years melt away, drawing me back to the old days, when I could see far with my own two eyes and walk on my own two legs, with none to guide me.

Shimabukuro's artwork is still great, he is wonderful at drawing all these monsters, and his humor and gags are out and about with much laughter throughout this volume, as well.

A week before the 2016 presidential election, Hauser & Wirth gallery opened the exhibition «Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975.»

Although he seemed a bit awkward in front of an audience, he punctuated his stories with wry observations that drew appreciative laughter.

With Trump in power the story behind Philip Guston's «Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975» is more relevant and important than ever before.

With Trump in power the story behind Philip Guston «Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975's is more relevant and important than ever before.

There are photos of Hartigan learning to silk - screen, bent over the tray in concentration, backlit by large loft - like windows; of her frowning in concentration at a life - drawing class, dancing in Central Park while holding a kite, throwing her head back in laughter in the Cedar Tavern, her neck the whitest thing in the dark room.

Carolee Schneemann demanded shock and laughter as she drew text from her vagina.

Marcel Duchamp's mixture of leather, tin and broken violins, which he calls «A Nude Descending a Staircase,» draws shrieks of laughter from the crowds who gather about it eight deep, in their eagerness to discover the lady or the stairway.

««A Nude Descending a Staircase» draws shrieks of laughter from the crowds who gather about it eight deep,» wrote one reviewer.

That quotation, which is included in the wall text of Hauser & Wirth's exhibition Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975, gets at why this show seems so apt: just replace «magazines» with «Twitter,» and it's 2016.

Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975 continues at Hauser & Wirth (548 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through January 14, 2017.

Hauser & Wirth have demonstrated an impeccable sense of timing by presenting their Richard Milhouse Nixon show, «Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975», first seen in their New York gallery in 2016 — that is to say actually before Donald Trump won the American presidency in December of that year.

The elderly YBAs were embarrassing: 20 years of rude, crude, eye - poking penises and breasts from Sarah Lucas drew gritted laughter from adults and outright guffaws from kids at the Whitechapel.

In 1919, when the playful Dadaist drew a mustache and goatee on a postcard of the Mona Lisa and named it L.H.O.O.Q., he opened a giant can of double - edged laughter that clearly has yet to die down.

The June 2013 issue of Rolling Stone published some of these utterings, several made by prominent elected officials, in its funny article, «The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming,» just as likely to draw tears as it is to invoke laughter.

Bill Heinze describes how Lord Sainsbury, U.K. Minister for Science & Innovation, outlined Britain's position on the EU Software Directive — and how, reportedly, laughter from assembled software developers may have sped him back to the drawing board.

Students who are drawn into the lesson with laughter stay focused longer and actually try to do better in the testing process.

Now in the 21st Century, where the compulsion to check our phones seems greater than our craving for a real life breathing connection — we need to draw some healthy boundaries to preserve stimulating conversation, laughter, tears, hugs, smells and the peaceful delight of sitting quietly together with someone we care about.

They draw people in around the shared activity of laughter.