Sentences with phrase «form of laughter»

It would seem that some of the leading filmmakers of today have taken that to heart and have also embraced the idea that a certain form of laughter laced with sardonic wit will go down particularly well.

But overall, it's something you just got to see when you just need a certain form of laughter to make up for your day.

In particular, Panksepp's work has focused on «the possibility that our most commonly used animal subjects, laboratory rodents, may have social - joy type experiences during their playful activities and that an important communicative - affective component of that process, which invigorates social engagement, is a primordial form of laughter.»

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For in this, instead of impressing upon him a holy fear and shame before the Good, he is polluting the pure one by teaching him the fear of loss of money, loss of reputation, misjudgment by others, neglect, the world's judgment, the ridicule of fools, the laughter of the frivolous, the cowardly whining of consideration, the inflated triviality of the moment, the fluttering mist - forms of vapor.

Sometimes laughter, not imitation, is the highest form of flattery.

Holding myself together with the memories of snorting laughter in various forms.

There were so many moments of pure joy, uncontrollable laughter, raw emotion, vulnerability, honesty, and love and I can't help but feel amazed by the deep friendships that formed in just a few days.

The American sports fandom paradigm of our time is that of derision, amazement, and laughter in all its forms, and all at once.

But it was perhaps the first example of the year's spate of signature attacks; one motivated not by profit or espionage, but as a form of political protest tinged with «lulz», internet parlance for laughter based in schadenfreude.

In contrast, rat laughter comes in the form of high - frequency 50 - kilohertz ultrasonic calls, or «chirps,» that are distinct from other vocal emissions in rats.

So, basically what they do is they put small particles of quasicrystal — you know, like putting fruits in Jell - O and the Jell - O is a softer form of steel and quasicrystals are like the fruit (laughter) in the Jell - O — and that makes really resilient steel; very strong, sort of, resilient, so it can, you know, take pressure without breaking and all that sort of thing.

The discovery of this highly ebullient art form happened when small groups of people practicing laughter yoga began to emerge as the practitioners of the style started experiencing the incredible benefits of practicing this distinct style of yoga.

Laughter is a Form of Exercise.

I believe in laughter as the best form of medicine.

ha ha.love I'm an artist at work at home and in all forms of life and love.and the best part is to express true art of laughter..

There's a potentially interesting discussion about the exploitation of the male form in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and how, in general, the reaction to male nudity is a hell of a lot different than the reaction to female nudity (there's a good reason that Colin Farrell's penis was excised from the already - unintentionally - funny A Home at the End of the World: male nudity is a threat you respond to with laughter; female nudity is an invitation you respond to with various levels of sexual discomfort)-- but you can still have that discussion without actually enduring the picture.

«Laughter is a universal language and an excellent form of communication for both desired and unacceptable behaviors.

Participants will learn about the historic precedents for making comedy out of hardship both within the LGBT community and in the greater progressive activism movements, practice simple techniques for increasing their ability to use of laughter as a coping mechanism, and finally respond to writing prompts to help them embolden any art form with humor.

That is what it's like to be a writer, to be that hopeful soul chasing his or her dream regardless of the scorn, the derision, the laughter... and the torrent of rain that comes in the form of rejection after rejection.

In essence The House of Meetings is an extension, in novel form, of Amis's 2002 nonfiction work Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, a reference to Stalin and the estimated 20 million who died under the Bolshevik regime between 1917 and 1933.

The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer... They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world.

While dogs do not laugh in the sense that we understand laughter, the humor that humans see in their interactions with their pets is socially mediated by both parties to form a collective moment, one which has meaning to each of them.

In an homage to O'Hara and his poetry, Mitchell's painting borrows its title from his poem of the same name, which begins: «We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying / on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs / for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter / over an insatiable sexual appetite / and the streets will be filled with racing forms /...»

Working across paintings and sculptures the artist uses such spaces to reference a form of universal suffering, pain, fear, happiness, laughter and desire.

Some people laughed to see the alteration, but they let them laugh, and little heeded them; for they were wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, they thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.

Laughter is really a good form of medicine.

With respect to the comment «ham is not a toy» and repeated mischaracterization of the leftover ham steak as a ham sandwich, both attributed to Levesque, when coupled with the defendants» contemptuous laughter, the Court of Appeals concluded that viewers were encouraged «to form negative conclusions about Levesque, thus tending to harm his reputation».

It's a form of child abuse to stick a child with a name that's bound to cause laughter, mostly derisive, or worse.

To encourage a potential customer to engage with you, you have to evoke a reaction of some form — whether that's happiness, laughter, anger or tears.

I strive to help form the questions that need to be asked, to discern that which is in your control, to divine the source of your pain, and to use humor, laughter, tears and plain talk to make sense of your world; to motivate and help create an authentic healthier you.