in a humorous vein造句

• Despite the death described in the third story, they are written in a humorous vein.
• In her sitcom appearances during the 1960s, Nunn often played strong-willed and edgy women but in a humorous vein.
• Of course this is all offered in a humorous vein; nevertheless, some readers have been offended by the satire.
• In a humorous vein, Whelan asked that no more rich food be sent, lest he become an epicure in his later years.
• "Photoplay " commented, " Bill Haines'starring vehicle . . . treats everything in a humorous vein in the beginning, getting many laughs ."
• He lists examples of wasteful government expenditure that he will refer to in a humorous vein in his speech if his grant is not increased.
• I've added a doctored version of it onto my user page, reworded in a humorous vein . ( caint ) 18 : 56, 2 November 2005 ( UTC)
• The questions of the jealous husband and the evasions of his wife are treated here in a humorous vein, and there are French ballads of a similar type ."
• In this discussion, Zuggernaut made two appearances, both on March 1 ( his first ones ); once in a humorous vein and the other to ( predictably ) protest my tagging the article.
• He also took on the Republicans in a humorous vein, joking that " We may be near Hollywood, but not since Tom Hanks won an Oscar has there been that much acting in Philadelphia ."
• In a humorous vein I would nominate " Valley Girl ( film ) " and the " Bill and Ted " films because I haven't heard any Valleyspeak since sometime last century :-) Talk 18 : 10, 7 May 2013 ( UTC)
• Other works by Patrick include " Untold Decades " ( 1988 ), a history of gay-male life in the United States, told in a humorous vein; and " Temple Slave ", a " totally romanticized " novel about the early days of Off-Off Broadway and gay theatre.
• Analyst John Madden's best moment also might have come in a humorous vein, when he said after a second-quarter shot of Fox " Ally McBeal " star Calista Flockhart, " Ally thinks this would be a good time for Chris Chandler to start passing and passing on first down.
• In a humorous vein are his dramatic opera,  Penelope,  in which he was assisted by Thomas Cooke ( 1703 1756 ), a satire on Alexander Pope's  Odyssey,  and his farce  The Craftsman, or Weekly Journalist ( both performed at the Haymarket, and printed in 1728 and 1729 respectively ).
• The S / 360 instruction set already included numerous non-obvious mnemonics like ZAP ( Zero and Add Packed ), EDMK ( EDit and MarK ), TRT ( TRanslate and Test ), and Read Backward ( an I / O channel command ), and programmers began creating similarly cryptic, but fictitious, instructions in a humorous vein.