vein of humour

We find here too a large vein of humour and burlesque.

It was quite in his peculiar vein of humour.

He had an original vein of humour, which made even his reports as a school inspector unusually amusing.

A character singularly sweet and pure was enlivened by a bright vein of humour.

He enjoyed the "rich vein of humour" that runs through both this module and Dungeonland.

There is a strong vein of humour running through each video that is not dependent on language, further increasing its potential to spread virally.

He concludes "Spycat is an excellent arcade adventure with a strong vein of humour underlying all the action".

Accepting the vein of humour, he said, with a well-bred indifference-- "Oh, bring me some lobster mayonnaise."

I would add P.G. Wodehouse as another practitioner in this vein of humour.

Wolcot had a remarkable vein of humour and wit, which, while intensely comic to persons not involved, stung its subjects to the quick.

These are stories that you won't forget in a while: relentlessly gripping, deliciously twisted and shot through with a vein of humour that's as dark as hell.

In the same year appeared Fact'ry 'Ands, a series of more or less connected sketches dealing with factory life in Melbourne in a vein of humour.

He reviewed the module along with The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror, and enjoyed the "rich vein of humour" that runs through the two modules, both of which "offer players an exciting and humorous time".

He was a very prolific composer of Italian dramma giocoso and commedia per musica operas, and there is in most of his scores a vein of humour and natural gaiety not surpassed by Domenico Cimarosa himself.

The lawyer, the printing works foreman, and Beryl had each of them offered facets of the old man's character which suggested not only a cynical vein of humour and a streak of malice but a disdainful attitude to at least some of those closest to him.

F. S. PRITCHETT, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 'A book of great sadness with deep veins of humour... It is at once classic and contemporary.

The Musical Times wrote: "The excellent vein of humour so apparent in [Cox and Box], as well as in the more important Contrabandista, justifies us in the hope that Mr. Sullivan may give us, at no distant date, a real comic opera of native manufacture."

She described him as a "bright and buoyant character", "a really brilliant, energetic man, who had many gifts and accomplishments, with a cheerful, undaunted spirit, which to the last helped him to encounter trials, and a vein of humour which was as much at the service of his friends as it was to that of the public."

Though the Orchid Trilogy strays into a typically English vein of humour, the idyllic land of his childhood and his obsession with le paradis perdu often bring in an element of intense melancholy, something developed in paranoia and isolation in The Image of a Drawn Sword.