His combination of gently humorous style and enormous academic clout endears him to a broad audience of politicians, scholars and the public.

The essays are erudite, but also gently humorous.

This was to be the hallmark of all her fiction, gently humorous domestic dramas with little if any reference to political events or social change.

The bittersweet episodic tale of an ultra-dedicated locomotive engineer uneasily transitioning into retirement provides warm and gently humorous entertainment.

In 2001, he wrote that the strip was, a gently humorous fantasy with a liberal political philosophy.

The above pun prompted surprising public sympathy for him - for some, his humorous remark highlighted the brutality of the electric chair.

This includes a constant flow of subtitles and super-titles making humorous remarks and adding another layer of dialog and commentary to the film.

In some countries, the narrator used humorous remarks for light-hearted or non-tragic stories.

He appears to be a confident and reliable personality with often humorous remarks.

The character was mostly seen playing jokes on other staff members, organizing parties and celebrations, trying to make money on the side via various get-rich-quick schemes and making humorous remarks.

The song goes through many verses telling a humorous tale of the trials and tribulations they find on the hunt.

There are also numerous gag characters, who are introduced for the purposes of narrating a humorous tale, and then quickly discarded.

Humorous tales about him are legion, and of his robust singing in the dressing-room.

Many readers will be surprised by how prevalent such humorous tales were.

It contained a mixture of songs, poems, humorous tales, jokes, conundrums, tongue twisters and other items of frivolity.

It was founded in 1841 as a vehicle for humorous writing as much as for drawings.

Well, maybe it's just humorous writing that's out of sorts.

For me, however, it was his humorous writing for newspapers and magazines that most impressed.

It was printed on cheap newsprint with plain design and filled with corrosive yet humorous writing.

The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century, and they were commonly used in casual and humorous writing.