Sentences with phrase «of laughter for»

«We want to try something different from past years by offering an evening of laughter for a good cause,» says Larry Anderson, broker at Sutton — Premier Realty.

p. 125 (col.) Gilles Deleuze, «Interpretations of the Body: A New Power of Laughter for the Living», Art International, no. 8, autumn 1989, p. 35, repr.

She had also come to recognise the importance of «the healing power of laughter for things that are horrific or tragic».

We are just a joke of a club and a source of laughter for everyone.

Hilarity ensued — nay, exploded — as Candace, soon to be «Chewbacca Mom,» unleashed a delightfully hysterical torrent of laughter for two solid minutes.

Not exact matches

«The rise in serious incidents involving animals in flight leads us to believe that the lack of regulation in both health and training screening for these animals is creating unsafe conditions across U.S. air travel,» said John Laughter, Delta's senior vice president for corporate safety, security and compliance.

It is the greatest irony of my life that losing my husband helped me find deeper gratitude — gratitude for the kindness of my friends, the love of my family, the laughter of my children.

He choked with laughter and shared the joke with two of his colleagues, who were waiting for their cut.

Researchers studied 54 organizational team meetings in two German industrial companies for behavioural patterns of humour and laughter.

The worlds... [laughter] 03:03 Vaynerchuk: I think that most of my friends, that have jumped into it, after going to Harvard and doing all this stuff have found a whole different level of respect for me,»cause they thought it was easy.

Boy: Isaac Isaac, meaning «laughter,» is a great choice for a Sagittarian boy, who is well known for his humor, is a natural entertainer and often the life and soul of the party.

«The rise in serious incidents involving animals in flight leads us to believe that the lack of regulation in both health and training screening for these animals is creating unsafe conditions across U.S. air travel,» John Laughter, Delta's senior vice president for corporate safety, security and compliance, said.

In an episode of 30 Rock broadcast live in 2010, attention - seeking sketch comedian Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) catches some reruns of The Carol Burnett Show and decides to start mimicking its tendency for characters to «break» — that is, succumb involuntarily to laughter on - screen — on purpose.

In a question about «what the US government should do about» bitcoin, Mnuchin lightened the mood by asking moderator David Rubenstein for full disclosure on bitcoin ownership, to which Rubenstein responded that he «didn't even know what it is» and that he «missed the boat,» to a round of laughter.

«For purchasing airplanes, we are one of the biggest clients of Boeing, so I think the president of the United States should honor us for a prize,» he said to loud laughtFor purchasing airplanes, we are one of the biggest clients of Boeing, so I think the president of the United States should honor us for a prize,» he said to loud laughtfor a prize,» he said to loud laughter.

There was no giddy laughter, no handing off of half crowns to small pages to purchase poultry for the Tiny Tims on the Liberal and...

Of course they don't have any of the joys of a relationship with God, how can they, because for them, God doesn't exist, and it is so much fun to make fun of believers, I mean, they just roll with laughteOf course they don't have any of the joys of a relationship with God, how can they, because for them, God doesn't exist, and it is so much fun to make fun of believers, I mean, they just roll with laughteof the joys of a relationship with God, how can they, because for them, God doesn't exist, and it is so much fun to make fun of believers, I mean, they just roll with laughteof a relationship with God, how can they, because for them, God doesn't exist, and it is so much fun to make fun of believers, I mean, they just roll with laughteof believers, I mean, they just roll with laughter.

Humor is the best medicine and for those of us that are rational non-believers, we can sit back and TRY to stifle our giggles but the humor is so far reaching that giggles turn in to full, side - splitting laughter.

I think our souls require some release: for wisdom, for perspective, for laughter, for tears, for even the holy act of hearing «I see you and I'm listening.»

I needed to see her create SheLoves with my own eyes to know how sacred it is for women to tell their stories, to own their anointing, to come alongside of each other with power and laughter and vulnerability.

«they're dying of laughter or dying for a piece of cake etc.»... it's because they don't believe what they're saying.

The pleasure of delightful laughter is accounted for as a reflection of «the abundance of joy in which we were created» (p. 68), without being the full enjoyment of heaven which is still longed for.

Life is far too serious to be bearable without the delight of play, laughter, and celebration for sheer joy.

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.

The redemption of the festivals shows that God can redeem holidays and rituals for His own honor and glory, and that even as His people, He still wants us to enjoy life with parties, laughter, and celebrations.

Wallerstein provides a chapter on each: separating from the family of origin; building togetherness and creating autonomy; becoming parents; coping with crises; making a safe place for conflict; exploring sexual love and intimacy; sharing laughter and keeping interests alive; providing emotional nurturance; and preserving a double vision.

Perhaps the laughter of Abraham, which turned from cynical to celebratory when his son Isaac was born (the name means «He [God] laughs») would prove a more fruitful source for a biblical theology of play (Gen. 21).

No, Socrates, thee I can understand; thou dost treat him as a wag, as a sort of merry Andrew, thou dost treat him as a butt for laughter, thou hast no objection, it has even thine approval, that I prepare and serve him up as a comic dish — provided I do it well.

Not all but most sermons miss the chance to strike a blow for the kingdom that do not at some point hold up for general laughter some quality of the familiar common life of our time and place.

No sin, Wilson seems to be saying with a wink — but plenty of occasion for gently mocking laughter.

Even the sacraments of the church have provided occasions of humor, muffled, of course, by a sense of guilt which failed to see that only the true and meaningful can provide the leverage necessary for laughter.

«For God to start this in Allahabad, it is the laughter of God,» he says.

Maybe that is why it's still fun, for both of us, we're blurring the lines of work and play, smelling of sawdust and longing for each other, books and honest sweat, laughter and arguments.

Therefore, crying when tears are called for and laughing when laughter is needed are my primary signs of mental and emotional health.

Life was created for partying, Jesus loved weddings, funerals, banquets with plenty of food, wine, dancing, laughter, rejoicing.

If it really were this the age needed, the theater might perhaps need a new play in which it was made a subject of laughter that a person died of love — or would it not rather be salutary for this age if such a thing were to happen among us, if the age were to witness such an occurrence, in order that for once it might acquire courage to believe in the power of spirit, courage to quench cravenly the better impulses in oneself and to quench invidiously the better impulses in others... by laughter?

He knows that an individual voice will be raised in resistance, but he knows that he is stronger, he knows that for an instant one still can cause men to seem serious, but he knows also that privately they long to laugh with him; he knows that for an instant one can still cause a woman to hold a fan before her eyes when he talks, but he knows that she is laughing behind the fan, that the fan is not absolutely impervious to vision, he knows that one can write on it an invisible inscription, he knows that when a woman strikes at him with her fan it is because she has understood him, he knows without the least danger of deception how laughter sneaks in, and how when once it has taken up its lodging it lies in ambush and waits.

Let us imagine such an Aristophanes, such a Voltaire, a little altered, for he is at the same time a sympathetic nature, he loves existence, he loves men, and he knows that even though the reproof of laughter will perhaps educate a saved young race, yet in the contemporary generation a multitude of men will be ruined.

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.

As it happened, I was able to spend a couple of hours between flights with Bob Bork just ten days before he died, and I got to tell him of my gratitude for so much friendship and laughter over the past quarter - century, of my admiration for his depth, and» embarrassing him, as I knew this would» of my love for him.

I claim my corner of your life and half of your blood, for the teaching of the big nouns and verbs of love and peace, justice and mercy, faith and laughter, servanthood and courage, the sacredness of work and beauty through the small daily life we live together now.

In my last lecture I quoted to you the ultra-radical opinion of Mr. Havelock Ellis, that laughter of any sort may be considered a religious exercise, for it bears witness to the soul's emancipation.

Thanks Jim, that's exactly what religious people SAY they follow, but as usual don't (and for good reason) If anyone actually followed this crazy bible to the T they would be thrown in the nut house, and I'm pretty sure they'd hear a lot of laughter in there.

I mean really, when you think of the psychological damage involved in the ridiculous original sin idea, laughter is one of the best routes for healing and moving out of that mind - trap.

In between fits of laughter, I said I could imagine myself shopping around for the best deal, hoping to have money left over to at least buy a bottle of good scotch.

Freedom would then be in a sorry case, both an object of laughter and deserving of tears, since it would be responsible for what did not belong necessity to devour.

Look at the power of laughter, the power of family, the power of love, no god needed for those things.

Perhaps best known for his text on the sociology of religion, The Sacred Canopy, Berger has also shown a keen interest in issues of development and public policy and in the nature of religious belief in the modern world, as evident in A Far Glory: The Question of Faith in an Age of Credulity (1992) and in his most recent book, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience.

Sister Catherine Marie and her team seem to be a happy bunch — chats in the kitchen often broke into laughter, and an invitation to join the sisters in their own refectory for lunch revealed a community with a sense of unity and purpose.

Throughout Europe the cathedrals offered opportunity for sculptors to provoke somewhat hollow laughter with their skin and bone effigies of «death», set beside or over the memorial of a deceased prelate represented in all his earthly glory.