Sentences with phrase «like laughter»

Trust is like a laughter.

The heartfelt bonhomie of «Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen,» like the pulsing colors of their paintings, resounds like laughter through the galleries of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

The black shape has faded to grey, but still tilts sharp and subversive against the correct white rectangle on which it floats, fine cracks spreading like laughter lines across the surface.

Three February novels look especially good: Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag; Adriana Trigiani's Brava, Valentine; and Michael J. White's Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter... and we're giving them away to one lucky reader.

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides * Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in that House by Meghan Daum Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon ** The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Weeping Under Water Looks A Lot Like Laughter by Michael J. White Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom

Like laughter in comedy, student discussion and sharing is the foremost goal we educators should seek, as it is critical to helping our students manage through the stresses and social challenges they face at school and at home.

Nothing connects two people in conversation like laughter.

They are free from some of the more practical worries that dating can bring up, and are then able to focus on the fun qualities in a partner — like laughter!

I feel like laughter is good for your soul.

Action is like laughter — it's contagious.

«With things like laughter, we don't tend to just have an emotional experience.

Like laughter, tickling is almost by definition a social activity.

It is well known that positive emotions, like laughter or engaging well with an experimenter, can increase dopamine levels in the brain, which in turn has a positive effect on learning.

Meanwhile, a different brain region noted emotion in a voice, with a strong response to cheery sounds like laughter and a weaker reaction to unhappy noises like canine whining.

Would you like a laughter solution for your family challenge?

There's nothing like laughter that calms my nerves and makes me feel sane again.

Before the mother's despair, words of redemption offer no consolation; instead, like the laughter and music which accompany her child's murder, such words mock her torment and deny the profundity of her suffering.

It sounds more like the laughter of eight - year - olds doing cartwheels or of old friends savoring a birthday, or of a gray - haired couple chuckling at the antics of a grandchild.

It sounded «like the laughter of the universe.»

Nothing says summer like the laughter and memories shared around a crackling campfire.

Not exact matches

«A Spool of Blue Thread» spans four generations of the Whitshank family — a loving group of people who share laughter, tender moments, milestones, and the challenges of growing up — but just like any other family, they also experience disappointments, heartache, jealousy, and deep - rooted secrets.

Nagasu says that while in general she turns to comedy and laughter to reduce pressure at big events like the Olympics, overcoming the heartbreak of missing the Sochi team was tough.

But like an old traditional marriage, where there are all kinds of rules and chaperones, we can't consummate the marriage, (LAUGHTER) until we're actually officially hooked up.

Laughter is like a vitamin that prevents burnout.»

«It certainly doesn't feel like that to me,» Zuckerberg replied, as laughter rippled through the room.

If anyone ever got a chance to see them, they know that this show, much like others, was filled with laughter and love.

And after the aha, there's an «aaaahhhhhh...» and just like that, hearty laughter lifts us out of our head, and puts us squarely in the heart.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

I wonder if perhaps someone needed to see how this, too, is what it looks like to proclaim the Gospel: quite pregnant, female, Bible open, voice filled with tears and laughter and passion, not from - away but rooted right here, imperfect.

Laughter and love... like innocent children at play.

«Laughter does good like a medicine.»

The scene in which Lazarus is raised from the tomb will probably elicit laughter from cynical younger filmgoers, for in an attempt to be authentic to the period, Scorsese has wrapped Lazarus so that he looks like a mummy who wandered over from a horror movie.

I feel a bit hypocritical admonishing my readers toward kindness and understanding when I too have been avoiding such conversations like the plague, but I do think healthy, constructive dialog is possible, and that it's best tackled around a shared table, over steaming plates of mashed potatoes and green beans, amidst the laughter and grace that emerges organically from deep, trusted relationships.

They turned on music, and even though I was tired and hot, I danced in the kitchen to pop songs, and I felt like barking with laughter - crying because all three of them were dancing with me, and their faces were upturned to me, they were having so much fun, and I thought, Oh, my God, I'm it, aren't I?

And we were all restored to joy, again and again, because I couldn't stop laughing, every time I gave birth, when it was over, I laughed and laughed in relief and wonder, like an ancient Sarah joining with God in laughter here at promises fulfilled.

It is a holy laughter that falls like a spring breeze on people made newly open to the truth.

I like to think Jesus was laughing with delight when he prayed, «I thank thee, Father...» Stage directions for reading this would perhaps indicate that the laughter here is the laughter of relief, not laughter at a person, but laughter with a person — in this case, laughter among the members of the Trinity.

Yet it was never demoralizing or cynical; the burden of Malcolm's wit, like that of the medieval and Renaissance Christian fools about whom he loved to discourse, as in Erasmus» Praise of Folly or Shakespeare's King Lear, was always, implicitly or explicitly, that we were all fools in need of laughter, forgiveness, and grace.

It's easy for us turn to laughter like an alcoholic turns to whiskey.

But I didn't feel this pressure like I have to fix this problem or we will go under, instead I had these open hands almost with laughter going how are you going to do this.

Some churches engage in holy laughter, barking like dogs and braying like donkeys, getting slain in the Spirit, rolling in the isles, and having tooth fillings changed to gold.

But there was nothing like the unchecked badinage I heard in the kitchen at Mina's house, the meaningless spats dissipating into cackling laughter.

It is something like «dialog, laughter, debate, and a beer with friends» ---- that changes me the most.

I like this place because: it is multicultural; the music is excellent (they played with the Houston Symphony a few months ago); there is lots of laughter; everyone from every conceivable background is accepted; there is never judgment or shame spoken from the pulpit; the preaching / teaching is generally inspirational with the main theme being the hope of Godâ $ ™ s kingdom breaking through the shit barrier most people know as life.

Smokey flavors, friends, family, all paired with laughter and a glass of wine sounds like a perfect evening in my book.

It was a jam - packed weekend filled with so much love, boisterous laughter, and delicious food, leaving us feeling like superheros when all was said and done.

Costa is thought to have been aggrieved by Conte bursting into laughter ahead of Chelsea's Premier League victory over Tottenham last week, when it was put to him that Costa felt Chelsea have treated him like «a criminal».

The sun fell behind the hills, cloaking Harvey Bear's crispy brown with darkness, and with the laughter and the twinkling headlamps, it once again looked like a nightclub, the kind that used to keep Corbett up late at night.

As we skimmed the morning news, the chatter and laughter of the women exiled to the porch caused Rex to look up from his paper and snap, «They sound like a bunch of parrots!»

So one can imagine the laughter around the world by those who don't like the idea of spending beyond your means to buy all those superstars.