Sentences with phrase «of chortling»

In the middle of chortling at one of his wacky, indecorous paintings, you are apt to suddenly notice an odd and even disturbing detail.

The black cop was leaning halfway across the table to look at something on the white one's phone, the two of them chortling over some policeman joke.

Lots of chortling from the Tories.

This is the start of the pattern recognition that leads to reciprocal communication, with plenty of chortling laughter between baby and adult.

After receiving an award for his decades of dedication to the Business Council, Roger Hannay, who runs a reel - manufacturing company in rural Albany County, drew a peel of chortles when he noted, «Most of us probably have no access to the tax benefits of Start - UP NY?

Plenty of chortles to be had in this archetypal Ben Stiller comedy which proves once and for all that you can choose your friends, but not their relatives.

Not exact matches

He is nothing if not skilled at placing himself at the epicentre of attention, then chortling gleefully as others orient themselves around his dark polarity.

Galupo also writes that: Right now, Romney boosters like Levin are chortling over the political difficulty Obama faces as a consequence of having paid for new spending rather than finance it through deficits.

When discussing themes or circumstances that invite a leer or chortle, like Rubens's penchant for modeling his female saints on buxom blondes or the baroque taste for sexually charged subjects like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (a «tug of war» between Joseph's virtue and the «gross sensual appetite» of his mistress), Schama's tone can be vexingly flip.

I suppose you atheists can chortle together about how clever your ads are, but to most of the rest of us you are just mean and STUPID.

«McIlroy played with just 13 clubs yesterday, so the 3 - iron is back and rumor has it that it's gonna end up on the wall here in a case at Doral clubhouse,» NBC's Dan Hicks on Sunday, with partner Johnny Miller tee - heeing in the background, chortled during a playback of the Trump - to - McIlroy handoff.

- 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.

Tiger Woods may be one of the oddsmakers» picks to emerge victorious Sunday at Augusta, but that just makes the four - time Masters winner's colleagues chortle.

Even in 1992, when Martinez batted.343 for Seattle's last - place team and won his, and the club's, first batting title, reporters had paraded past his locker without pausing, moving on quickly to bask in the glow of Griffey's smile, trade chortles with Buhner or pick the simmering brain of pitcher Randy Johnson.

he chortled — and, better yet, he knew where three of Splash's peers could be found, all of them former swimming team captains.

When you, as a world - weary parent, find yourself genuinely rooting for a chortling character made of neon yellow sponge (and wishing you could give him a squelching hug at the end of his journey), that's some serious stage magic right there.

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).

BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor noted at the time: «MPs were, of course, indulging in a collective chortle over the leaked memo.

* Something that certain unnamed economists and politicians have chortled about over the last 30 years, saying something along the lines of «Hehehe they can't afford to offload our debt so why care?»

The images that emerged this weekend of chancellor George Osborne slumped back in a first - class train seat, next to a female aide, as they chortled over a film on their laptop, were unfortunate enough.

Now, before you go imagining some chortling along the lines of one rakish Stuart Little (or was he a mouse?)

Yes, I chuckled a couple of times, maybe even chortled.

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.

A surprising amount of silence mars the track, and I found it hard not to chortle during the discussion of Van Diem's «method,» but all - in - all, not a bad option if you're into this sort of thing.

Their chortles reek of carefreeness.

, it rivals the climax of director Peter Chelsom's last movie for sheer chortle - worthiness.

Brawl in the Hall — A fascinating and hilarious inside look at the process of creating Brave's fighting Scots, through animation, crowd simulation and fight choreography — not to mention a room full of grunting men whose vocal chortles added authenticity to the raucous scene.

And in spite of the hair - pulling, the 14 year old game's timeless humor gave me so many chortles.

Is it, as the chortling masses would suggest, a nimble, rapier - sharp sketch of infidelity, worn - out idealism and the absurdity of mortality that's chock - full of relatable characters and acid - tongued zingers?

by Walter Chaw Matthew Modine has made a career of acting the idiosyncratic man of action — that scattershot chortle masking some unusual skill and the kind of laconic intelligence that Eric Stoltz has utilized to far different effect.

Because social media and 24/7 news mean that even a short chortle can be turned by one's foes into evidence that one is making light of something?

Reached for comment at the Turf Club in Piccadilly, a Rolls - Royce spokesman dismissed Mr. Reft's claims outright: «We at Rolls - Royce Motor Cars merely chortle at this amateurish attempt to shanghai the nomenclature of future company products.

You have to stifle a chortle as the car defies physical convention, and then, midcorner, its vast 285 - section - width front Michelin Super Sports (a brand - new Cup tire with 9/32 of an inch of tread) claw into the surface and allow the driver to indulge the gas pedal.

Subaru's turbocharged flat four is distinctive in terms of power delivery and sound, so it's weird to hear that signature blat chortling away right behind your ears.

With chortle - inducing amounts of power and torque coupled with reduced fuel consumption it looks like a winner to us.

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 omission would be of small consequence had not so many Android tablet makers chortled so loudly that their offerings deliver «the full web experience» - code for Flash support - because their chief rival, Apple's iPad, infamously does not.

Not in the way of yapping or barking but rather because they have a large repertoire of vocalizations, with nuances of warbles, grumbles, groans and chortles that only immediate family can decifer.

Each of my cats has their own way of manipulating me with their unique blend of chirps, chortles, purrs, and full out meows.

It reflects the happy heart of the Samoyed, which not only smiles but chortles.

On this week's episode, we talk free DLC for the Vita's hottest FPS, a free FPS for 3DS which is the opposite of hot (because it's underwater chortle chortle chortle), and much much more, including: How almost a hundred thousand gamers are trying to play through Pokemon Red — at... Continue reading 35: Pokemon Twitch Itch, Free Vita DLC & Zero Funding for Zero Escape 3

There's a whole lot of smirking and chortling to be had by reading Captain Olimar's notes on the human objects he finds scattered across the levels, and the collection and use of Pikmin to defeat the critters and get perfect ratings on levels is addictive.

Once critics chortled over the triumph of American painting in the second half of a dizzying century.

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

Warmist McKibben Praises Climate Depot: «The best of the contrarian partisans is Marc Morano, whose Climate Depot is an environmental Drudge Report» — «Morano and his colleagues deserve their chortles — they're winning, and doing it with skill and brio»

With all this fresh in the mind, I chortled my cold coffee upon yesterday reading that the School of Journalism's «Exxon Knew» investigation was funded by the Energy Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Rockefeller Family Fund.

McIntyre orchestrated a flood of FoI requests on his blog, with commenters happily playing along, chortling all the while.

Well then, why settle for watching mediocre late - night TV shows that (with the exception of Letterman) remain without their writers, when you can chortle at the superior comedy of lawyers behaving hilariously at The Billable Hour's newly launched Video Venue.

Many of us in the tech community chortled under our breath, wondering if such a thing was even possible, let alone advisable.