Sentences with phrase «often than laughing»

I found myself shaking my head more often than laughing, whether in reaction to the obvious physical jokes, gratuitous situations, or sudden bursts of violence.

Not exact matches

We laugh 30 times more often when we're around other people than when we're alone.

I think it's often better to laugh about the impossibility of it all than to be morose.

I always look forward to your posts for so many reasons, but mostly to read the story behind the recipe or the process — more often than not, I find myself nodding in agreement or laughing and always smiling!

Or laugh - more often than not, doubled over, and filling us up with happiness.

While most gamers would have laughed a few years ago if you suggested using a laptop, some of todays models are powerful enough to handle your intense graphic rich games at a price that is often more affordable than a desktop computer.

Speakers, it turned out, were 46 percent more likely to laugh than listeners — and what they were laughing at, more often than not, wasn't remotely funny.

Let's face it, while the movies portray images of happy families laughing around the kitchen table or in front of the fireplace during the Christmas season, often moms end up more stressed out and busier than ever.

That's Danisha, no wonder why I was automatically drawn to seat by her and obviously had endless belly laughs and more often than not it was hard to concentrate in some of the classes we had together.

There was one weird phrase, which made me laugh; O'Neill writes: ``... people tended to die more often, and younger...» I'm sure it wasn't the intent, but I read that as people dying more than once, and I can't un-read it now.

Besides, healthiness is so often linked to happiness — and what better way to celebrate happiness than joyously laughing with someone?

There is a lot of predictability and crassness involved but I did find myself laughing more often than not.

There is more talking than sex, and that talk's comic content is often dry as dust, mostly without the easy laughs and obvious comic beats of, say, Woody Allen or Noah Baumbach or Agnès Jaoui.

We're not necessarily saying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn't honor the greatest performances in film, but getting an audience to laugh can often be more difficult than getting them to cry.

It certainly doesn't help that the laughs are mostly absent, although first - time writer - director Michael Clancy does aim for the funny bone much more often than he tries to tug on our heartstrings.

I did laugh a couple of times, but these were more often at random comedic moments, rather than any of the parodies.

It's to the credit of director Stuart Blumberg (who also co-wrote with Matt Winston) that the situations are more often played for drama than for cheap laughs.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

However, this is more than a performance, it's a very humorous (and I mean laugh - out - loud funny) and often very touching story, adapted from Louis Begley's novel.

We may not always agree (more often than not), but that doesn't mean we can't be friends, or we can't grab drinks and chat about the crazy shit we just saw, or laugh about how wacky Tokyo Tribe is, or just admire the Drafthouse and all its glory.

Delivering lines like only he can and bringing a swagger to proceedings, Reynolds is the films MVP and while not everything that spews out of his mouth lays a comedic smack down, more often than not you can't help but laugh at how far Reynolds takes the character.

Again like «Guardians of the Galaxy,» Thor: Ragnarok is very funny, often playing like a comedy with action rather than action with laughs.

This might be the most playful Anderson has ever been with his writing and directing, with the film often being laugh - out - loud funny with its dialogue and visual gags; Inherent Vice is darkly comedic, but more goofy than edgy in most of the comedic setups.

However, there was a little more called for than I could muster, and more often than not, I found myself laughing at one - dimensional characters do the dumbest things for little or no reason than for titillation meant to please undiscriminating audiences.

More often than not, Payne's preferred method of trying to squeeze laughs and tears from the same moment — or rather, following a lump - in - the - throat moment with a carefully timed comic jab — simply cancels itself out.

Unlike Four Lions, Chris Morris's empathetic and genuinely funny comedy about suicide bombers, Top Floor, Left Wing pivots around the serious notion that there's such a thing as defensible or simply respectable terrorist actions while laughing at the concept that the terrorist you don't know is often more dangerous than the one you do.

I laughed more often during this than I have during most recent out - and - out comedies — and you can't say much fairer than that.

In fact, he's often better in comedic roles (Pain & Gain) than in his more serious fare (San Andreas), as the seeming disconnect between his hulking form and perfect delivery of bon mots makes the laughs that follow doubly special.

Employing as much adult oriented humor as kid - aimed cracks, Hotel Transylvania «s script includes some smart one - liners, funny sight gags and rude jokes (often about fecal matter), most of which are more chuckle - worthy than laugh - out - loud.

More often than not, though, the laugh - out - loud scenes are orchestrated by young Robbie (Jonah Bobo), playing a teenager refusing to give up on love despite his parents break - up.

I laughed harder and more often at it than any other film I've seen so far this year.

Writer Kim Fuller (the person responsible for another, rather infamous «girl power» comedy, Spice World) often strains to come up with convincing reasons for the women to stick to their often - failing plan, and while there are more than a few grin - worthy moments, there is a clear dearth of any that induce audible laughs.

Jane Campion's laugh comes as a rather lovely surprise: full, throaty and often directed at herself, it betrays a personality more robust, mischievous even, than one might surmise from her fragile, often solemn films.

Coming as it does from an expert parodist, the film is often funnier around its edges than most full - blown comedies are at center, even as Peele largely resists playing his scenario — a kind of town - with - a-secret spin on Guess Who's Coming To Dinner — strictly for laughs.

Driven correctly the 420 is a much faster car than the 270 and 360 and there is an enduring joy in that challenge — but you'll probably laugh out loud more often in the «lesser» cars.

Arnold Spirit, a goofy - looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the «poor - ass» Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together.

Arnold Spirit, a goofy - looking dork with a decent jump shot, spends his time lamenting life on the «poor - ass» Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together.

It's very rare that a game can be «laugh out loud funny» I find more often than not the attempts to inspire laughter in videogames fall flat and more often then not are pretty cringe worthy.

... studies of happy marriages, especially those lasting more than a half century, find spouses often ascribe their marital bliss in part to laughing together.