| He manifested a continual subtle humorousness like some stream of life. |
| Jokes about serious problems, like wars or torture, constrain discussion in a particularly insidious way: their humorousness undermines any criticism of the act of joking. |
| Whatever you do, do not apply your own personal cognitive skills to determining the humorousness of any particular clip. |
| Then in order not to mind too much I loosened my roots, floated a few feet off and grew to look at things with a faint, pleasant humorousness that spiced my nose like the beginnings of a sneeze. |
| We instructed the participants to read each one and to indicate its humorousness by providing a rating from 1 to 5 in the space next to it. |
| It was invariably an exercise in dreadful, prankish, surrealist humorousness. |
