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"mirth" Definitions
  1. happiness, fun and the sound of people laughing

156 Sentences With "mirth"

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"She just said a terrible thing," Trump said with mirth.
And countless hours spent mining the headlines for usable mirth.
They seek fewer proscriptions, more dancing and song and mirth.
So he was back to mirth, for what it was worth.
But many months would pass without similar mirth, and the questions returned.
"Despite the constant negative press covfefe," he wrote, to much mirth and confusion.
Kuwaiti readers have struck back with a mix of brio and scornful mirth.
Often our mirth seems fueled by some deep-celled delight at being together.
These three kings deal not in frankincense and myrrh but in dubstep and mirth.
" McCullah described their work in her own five words: "badass and full of mirth.
James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, recently commented on the president's lack of mirth.
Drivers with slim followings drew mirth or boos that drilled through the night air.
It was a time for joy and mirth; a time to celebrate with loved ones.
When a burly regular pays to get double-teamed, the mirth fizzes from his skin.
She made the front page of Reddit, where thousands of users admired her contagious mirth.
The message, as always on this show, is served with a brash brand of mirth.
Except you have to really listen into it to hear the mirth and the optimism.
Rubio, granted, had more immediate cause for mirth: He'd just won the formal backing of Gov.
For nightly viewers of the team's long-running tragicomedy, he offers moonshots and much-needed mirth.
"You have displac'd the mirth," she says, and you know she's on her very last nerve.
The rest of it is all about balance: of mirth and sorrow, of fear and determination.
The earliest known version first appeared in a 1780 children's book called Mirth With-out Mischief.
But the widespread mirth that the gag inspired seemed to illustrate how the president's aura has dimmed.
Mr. Early's recent shows at the Bell House were tours de force of musings, music and mirth.
"Crisis" contains moments of mirth, particularly in the later episodes when the action unravels and descends into farce.
Gifts came on a rocket that was launched up from Earth,Bringing cosmonauts and astronauts plenty of mirth.
"Selden paused in surprise," begins "House of Mirth," and the reader pauses, too, wondering what has surprised him.
Baseball purists, and there are many of them, were predictably outraged, while others saw an opportunity for mirth.
"You know, I'm waiting on your draft of that feature," she said, no mirth in her eyes at all.
It may derive from nostalgia for Wodehouse's manicured milieu of mirth and privilege — "Downton Abbey" with a laugh track.
Carrington finds ways to tell her own story — of exile, harrowing institutionalization, reinvention — in code, and with dark mirth.
She quaffs vodka from a teacup, and the quavering mirth in her voice is but a beat away from madness.
What struck me most was that after reading 50 pages Morton's companion threw "The House of Mirth" into the trash.
And the complex mixture of mirth, disbelief and disappointment it has generated here is a reflection of divisions among Mexicans themselves.
On a lighter note, he has written a book entitled "Between Heaven and Mirth" about the importance of humour in religion.
Happiness appears to be a state of dead-eyed consumerist ease illuminated by an occasional wan flicker of mirth or dread.
As the story spread online, it prompted widespread mirth among Chinese Internet users who encounter such headaches on a regular basis.
You may laugh (as the audience I saw it with did, on and off), but there's genuine pleasure in that mirth.
Surprised, even a bit alarmed, we asked our apparently sober waitress what was going on: She had to restrain her mirth.
" With a glint of mirth, he added, "I mean, if you think of it, it's almost like getting abducted by aliens.
There were toasts with a crowd-pleasing (if prudently priced) malbec and puns riffing on "singular value decomposition" that elicited much mirth.
But it fostered a whole industry of mirth populated with cultural figures from hack jokesters to respectable writers slumming it as humorists.
The premise of the Japanese novelist Minae Mizumura's matter-of-factly titled third novel, "Inheritance From Mother," does not exactly promise mirth.
Could the song be engineered so that the audience would still laugh, but more out of a sense of shock than mirth?
It reads like Edith Wharton's House of Mirth and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer reimagined through the no-nonsense cadences of Grace Paley.
So for a while, Twitter acted like the first lady had revealed herself to be Queen Bavmorda, and all was levity and mirth.
And instead of simply being a source of mirth, Mr. Trump has become Mr. Obama's favored symbol for the country's growing political dysfunction.
The leader of the free world frequently displays a tight-lipped smile, but mirth-wise, that is as far as he will go.
Beginning to end, the production's mirth is catching, warm, friendly and unburdened, as though each yarn is laced with a bit of sunshine.
Lanthimos, a Greek director who has been based in London for the past few years, makes no real distinction between pathos and mirth.
On the sidelines of the Sintra conference, these comments mostly elicited mirth and sympathy for Powell, who is often in Trump's firing line.
In describing her as "Sweet Lorraine," Jimmy said: Full of drink and mirth, he left her place enchanted by her marvelous face and laugh.
Maybe if the Pixel 2 had a more aggressively styled design or thinner bezels, we could accept the headphone jack's demise with more mirth.
Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" would fit on that shelf, too, among all the other tragedies about women trapped by stifling social strictures.
But such mirth came mingled with despair, and one could plausibly define literary modernism as the washing of the corpse of tradition, albeit sardonically.
" Of another character, Spencer writes that "the crack in the Liberty Bell showed more mirth than her smile, a stop sign made of teeth.
"The House of Mirth," which was published in 1905, describes the efforts of a young woman named Lily Bart to find an acceptable husband.
In my experience as a reporter, the default response to any article containing the word "dick pic" — be it unsolicited or solicited — is unbridled mirth.
These are dark, strange times we're living, so far be it from me to spend too much timing dismissing Lyft's obvious devotion to mirth-making.
Laughter breaks the meditative silence: Giggling that starts among the women leaps across the aisle to the men — black-suited, black-hatted, overcome with mirth.
He spoke about how the service could become a "utility" and talked about the next ten or even 20143 years, causing mirth among industry veterans.
It might be the mirth of two sisters, suppressed at table: a mutual tautening, hands flitting to faces until the effect of the secret subsides.
After his exquisite adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth," in 2000, Davies didn't film another drama until "The Deep Blue Sea," in 2012.
Oakley's fall from privilege easily could have turned her into a helpless figure like Lily Bart, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's contemporaneous The House of Mirth.
That "The Truth" also contains kernels of wisdom and pain is felt in the meanings that ripple from the text well after the mirth has subsided.
Sometimes on Twitter, people like to make topical jokes in which they knowingly connect two current events from the popular culture to construct a bit of mirth.
In your worst imaginings it's like elementary school—a jeering kid beside the teacher, and just slightly behind her, making faces to provoke mirth in other students.
This is the fourth Pentatonix Christmas album in six years, a mercenary pace for a holiday-mascot group that specializes in an especially synthetic brand of mirth.
When I was younger, I believed it was all just in mirth, that he was just jivin' it all; but no, he believes absolutely in white supremacy.
And it struck me that the way he'd responded to "The House of Mirth" betrayed a misunderstanding of what kind of time machine an old book is.
A hot, if not exactly financially sound, tip for when your "responsible" adult life starts to feel devoid of childlike mirth: Just order something fun off the internet.
He recalled Mr. Poons getting a broom from the closet to sweep the front gallery floor and Mr. Samaras in morose silence, but hiding a barely contained mirth.
And if they're the adventurous type, skip the booze pretense altogether and buy them some Mirth Provisions Legal tonics that essentially switch the alcohol for THC and CBD.
At their best, the conflicting forces of mirth and grief have a kind of multiplier effect, like warm and cold air fronts whipping up a thunderstorm of catharsis.
Nor is it very common to see sadistic mirth occupying the faces of multiple tattoo artists as they inflict the unnaturally long, thick, shallow lines seemingly without pause.
I was in the midst of a mini-breakup and suffering from some acute loneliness, throwing out drunken prayers to the Gods of mirth and madness for absolution.
Moving, maddening, heroic, tragic, enlightening, revelatory, timely and steeped in time, sad yet bursting with mirth, Spettacolo is without doubt, in many ways and on many levels, consummate spectacle.
I won't explain the rest of the plot because I really want you to watch it unfold with your own eyes (as best you can, through tears of mirth).
Sanders refers to himself as retired from the NBA, but there's no concealing the mirth in his voice whenever the sport—the activity of playing basketball—enters the conversation.
Water pooled in my eyes as I imagined future conversations about the color and consistency of stool with an ailing father—whether from mirth or sorrow, I wasn't sure.
If you are a person of a certain age on the internet, you are overcome with whimsy and mirth because Roger Rabbit, But With Basketball: 2 is getting made.
So forget the people who tell you Trump is too bad for laughter, too dangerous for mirth -- that it ignores the real danger he poses to minorities or world peace.
I am seldom torn by the moral and emotional hazards of characters who are described from the outside (an exception has to be Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth").
Watch with a mixture of horror and mirth as this wily assassin, dressed in a pervy variation on a milkmaid costume, eviscerates her victim in the window of a brothel.
I'm not worried about how much time I spend on my phone, to be honest, because I find online to be an oasis of mirth compared to the physical world.
Christmas was but one of the occasions for mirth in "Holiday Inn," but here it is the VistaVision payoff to the team-up of two different song-and-dance acts.
Against the poor, woods-wanderin' Raps, the Hamlet of the NBA has transmuted into Puck, a wily fellow who goofily manipulates everything around him for the sake of mirth and love.
The Moon-Kim summit, beyond the bonhomie, mirth, banquets, stadium visit and mountain hike, has made that unlikely future, the advent of a new kind of peace, more likely than ever.
Candidate Trump no doubt added to the mirth of the primary season with his showmanship, his comically brazen dishonesty, his schoolyard-bully nicknames for his opponents, and the rest of it.
For our next book club we have chosen "The House of Mirth," by Edith Wharton, and we are now looking for a more contemporary novel that would be a good accompaniment.
Suicide Squad and Aladdin share a mishmash-y quality (and disreputable entertainment value) with Wild Wild West, which turned out to be prescient about the quantity-over-quality approach to simulated mirth.
That's when "Made in Japan" abruptly stopped being a source of mirth, Americans began to snap up Toyotas and Nissans in big numbers, and Detroit sank into a profit-and-jobs bloodbath.
"Many of the spectators either rocking in their seats with mirth, mumbling as their sides ached, 'Oh, dear, oh, dear,' or they were stilled with sighs and furtive tears," Mordaunt Hall wrote.
Lily Bart, in Wharton's 1905 novel "The House of Mirth," fears social ruin when she is tricked into visiting a man alone, believing his wife to be sick in a room upstairs.
But there's a certain segment of the population that likes to cut that mirth with some more subversive fun, and it's people like that who probably love the Christmas-themed horror movie Krampus.
Every once in a while, someone's earnest attempt to make themselves stand out from the crowd on the app would be shared into our feeds or timelines, inviting the mirth of fellow internetters.
Theater | New Jersey Death is not to be laughed about, usually, but "Exit the King" is a tragicomic consideration of mortality that spins a good deal of absurd mirth from a grave subject.
That's according to former FBI Director James Comey, who told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he developed a bit of an obsession with Trump's lack of mirth after the President fired him last May.
VICE News traveled to Portland, Oregon, to meet Ethan Ernest, creator of marijuana microdose pills called Mirth Control, which contain a fraction of the THC found in a typical joint or batch of edibles.
I walk around inside a little bubble of mirth when I'm reading a really funny essay collection, and I carry a lingering sense of disquiet when I'm in the middle of an unsettling novel.
I don't know what kind of food-related metaphor fits this exactly, but I'm going to go with "Mark Zuckerberg killing his own bison," because that's an image that still brings me great mirth.
Still, she could use a lesson in mindfulness: when she hears the Teacher's voice, she starts to laugh, and, when other members of this spiritual expedition enter late, she can barely contain her mirth.
The 1929 novel about race and identity, set mainly in Harlem, takes place about three decades after "The House of Mirth," but the affinities and distinctions between the two make for an irresistible combination.
These organic moments of unfettered mirth, surprise, or happiness are much more available to us now that every phone has a camera and millions of strangers' lives are just a video click and tap away.
But those faults aside, The Founder is remarkably entertaining, and it brings a caustic mirth and an even-handed fascination to a behind-the-scenes business story that may not initially sound interesting to viewers.
Shakespeare, for example, often put "and" next to "with"—Claudius marries Gertrude "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage", Old Hamlet's ghost "Appears before them, and with solemn march / Goes slow and stately".
"The Custom of the Country," Edith Wharton Yes, I love "House of Mirth," but the character of Undine Spragg may be Wharton's greatest creation, a nouveau riche all-American girl for the new (20th) century.
Among the travelers stuck in Irkutsk were employees of Louis Vuitton, the luxury goods brand, including several social media managers whose Instagram posts displayed a mixture of frustration and mirth as the misadventure dragged on.
Anderson is best known for playing FBI agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, but she also played Lily Bart in The House of Mirth and Stella Gibson on the BBC crime drama The Fall.
Ticket buyers can find present mirth when the director Moritz von Stuelpnagel ("Hand of God") revives Noël Coward's 1939 comedy about Garry Essendine, an actor in a dressing gown, under siege in his living room.
Ticket buyers can find present mirth when the director Moritz von Stuelpnagel ("Hand of God") revives Noël Coward's 23006 comedy about Garry Essendine, an actor in a dressing gown, under siege in his living room.
Soon, you will have thrown away the 30 literary analysis papers on "The House of Mirth" and will have entered a house where each room brings a new and different surprise — and lots of stylish comfort.
House Remodel The most literal choice for your book group would be Yvonne Georgina Puig's "A Wife of Noble Character," a smart and diverting modern homage to "The House of Mirth" set in 21st-century Houston.
"Running through the fields of wheat and straight off a cliff," one protestor wrote, alluding to an interview in which May provoked mirth by saying the naughtiest thing she had ever done was to run through wheat fields.
Host Jimmy Fallon transforms into host Jasper St. Mirth, a man sitting in front of a Christmas backdrop dressed in a white turtleneck, red jacket and a blonde combover wig, to present viewers with titles from Legend's album.
In one recent study, when Daniel Cordaro presented such sounds of laughter to people in 11 cultures, including people in remote Bhutan, these people knew that it was a sign of mirth and levity about 90% of the time.
A mysterious fire burns down the bar, resulting in massive casualties, while a fateful encounter with the Satanist lead singer (played with devilish mirth by Adam Brody in black eyeliner) turns Jennifer into a dangerous creature straight from hell.
A groundskeeper, Lucas Hackmann, chased the cat down, only to be bitten twice as he tried to carry it off the field, much to the mirth of viewers at the stadium and at home, but probably not to himself.
He was an indefatigably elegant stylist of prose so frequently hilarious, and so flawlessly rendered, that the reader has to suppress whinnies of giddy mirth if reading it in a library or while aboard the quiet car on Amtrak.
And even after he had arrived and kicked the sides of his nag and made his way over the city, there was mirth enough and song enough and mockery enough to make him tremble in his dull, black boots.
"It's been a rough while and some days are worse than others / There's no proper way to feel, no mirth, no levity, no amazing grace," he sings, articulating his desperate attempts to find some stability and a "proper" way to feel.
The female characters are also a trifle thin, with Laura Harrier as Peter's crush, while deriving modest mirth from Zendaya as Peter's surly classmate and continuing the gag about Tomei being far more attractive than Aunt May in the comics.
Drop it in warm water — in a bathtub, ideally — and it'll fizz as it dissolves, unleashing a cloud of color and shimmer and imbuing in you a kind of childlike mirth you haven't felt since you were an actual child.
" Fiercely resistant to the idealizing tendencies of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hogarth ­adopted "variety" as his watchword, reveling, as Schama notes, in "the knobbly and the irregular; the unseemly and even the deformed, mouths wide open with mirth, madness or pain.
Osaka laughed at her plight, and that moment of mirth acted like a release valve, letting out all the pressure that had been building since she dispatched Serena Williams in straight sets in New York to win her first major title.
The last one to make global headlines in recent years was in 2016, when a then government minister, Steven Joyce, was hit in the face with a sex toy thrown by a protester, an episode that caused more mirth than fury.
For nearly 24 hours, as soon as Buttigieg dropped out, Twitter was alight with Klobuchar's name and GIFs following a narrative of satisfaction and mirth (even if she, of course, tweeted her great respect and regard for the former mayor).
Varina reads the Greeks, Cotton Mather and Dante as well as "The Anatomy of Melancholy" and "The House of Mirth"; she meets Oscar Wilde; and after her husband's death she completes his memoir, as if to discharge an overdue debt.
Wharton is best known for her brilliant and witty novels of manners like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, but she also wrote several poignant books about World War I, the best of which is A Son at the Front.
Coming back right after a funeral for a relative who died way too young (39, to be exact), I did not expect to find much mirth in Dance Until We Die, a game about dancing at a space rave until you retire.
Also: Edith Wharton ("The House of Mirth" over "The Age of Innocence"); John O'Hara's stories; "Go Tell It on the Mountain," by James Baldwin; "The Flamethrowers," by Rachel Kushner; "Last Exit to Brooklyn," by Hubert Selby Jr.; and "Just Kids," by Patti Smith.
Bottlings fall into three price tiers, and while many of the names are a hoot — the value-driven Corvidae line honors the pesky crows and magpies that raid the vineyards with wines called Mirth and WiseGuy — the pursuit of quality is serious.
There were tears when the ghost of the dead king cries out to his son, Hamlet; tears when Hamlet laments that he has "lost all my mirth"; tears through "To be or not to be," the speech in which Hamlet considers ending his life.
Does it make sense, even for the sake of holiday mirth, to spare a turkey expressly raised for human consumption only to have it die of natural causes a few months later because it is not suited for life in the wild or even a protected farm?
The U.S. is experiencing a revival of Japan syndrome, harking back to the late 1970s when "Made in Japan" abruptly stopped being a source of mirth, Americans began to snap up Toyotas and Nissans in big numbers, and Detroit sank into a profit-and-jobs bloodbath.
Not that Pinter's disorienting amalgam of mirth and menace was particularly welcomed at its 1958 premiere; the play was greeted with general befuddlement until a celebrated review from Harold Hobson in The Sunday Times of London alerted readers to the playwright's singular capacity to disturb and provoke.
With a cast of four and an onstage band that dips in and out of the narrative, the result is one of the cheerier productions amid a theatrical lineup that, on the basis of a recent weekend of ardent playgoing, doesn't contain an overabundance of mirth.
You remember how it was, before we got all snooty and fancy and mean: One of us fell down, the rest of us doubled over in mirth, and someone else made a picture so we could laugh at the thing all over again as many times as we wanted.
When I was a kid, my mother and I connected over feminism in the form of Gillian Anderson's Scully; her Lily in The House of Mirth caught me just as I grew into questions about adulthood and what it means to live in a world that's fundamentally unfair.
On this podcast, James Brown of Boneloaf, makers of mirth-filled multiplayer beat 'em up Gang Beasts, and Rex Crowle and Moo Yu from Foam Sword, who are producing the wonderfully cute Knights and Bikes, join us—"us" being Mike Diver and Kate Gray—to talk about all manner of stuff.
Think of the opening scene of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth," published in 1905 and set a decade earlier, in which Lily Bart, a single woman struggling to keep her place among New York's élite, agrees to take tea at the apartment of the lawyer Lawrence Selden, a single man.
I asked him what he'd been writing and reading, and he said that he was writing a novel about time travel, and that he was reading — well, he had been reading Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth," but after about 50 pages, he said, he'd tossed it into the trash.
There is even a clever riff on the Assumption, involving a helicopter—closer to the airplane that brings the Angel Gabriel, in Godard's sublime "Hail Mary" (1985), I would say, than to the chopper that ferries a statue of Jesus at the start of "La Dolce Vita" (1960), fuelled by Fellini's surreal mirth.
From a barely sweetened, pourable crème anglaise pooled in the bottom of a bowl of sugared blackberries to a firm and deep yellow lemon pastry cream doing its work in a tartlet shell — and with every variation in between, from semifreddo to eggnog and quiche and plain butterscotch pudding — custard brings mirth.
Her work, like the school of thought that had produced it, was attentive to the buffeting emotional weather of everyday life: consider our Twitter-fed swings of anger and mirth, the oversharing and moodiness ascribed to younger generations, the paranoia stoked by proliferating conspiracy theories, even the emergence of the eternally sad pop star.
JERUSALEM — One of the many things that divides Israelis and Palestinians is the letter P. The consonant that prefaces prejudice and partisanship became an object of mirth on Thursday after Anat Berko, a conservative lawmaker from the governing Likud Party, said in Parliament that there could be no such place as Palestine because there is no P in Arabic.
Elsewhere, Iago's urgent command to the gullible Roderigo (Steffan Donnelly) to "put money in thy purse" is here repeated to increasing mirth from the audience, as if he is somehow so much more switched-on than those around him that he has been reduced to stating the obvious, or to repeating himself in order to be heard.
There are several well-stocked ones near the Nassau Avenue G station: Awoke Vintage (688 Manhattan Avenue), which also has a Williamsburg location; Mirth (606 Manhattan Avenue); and Fox & Fawn (9843 Manhattan Avenue), where a pair of strappy Jimmy Choo high-heeled sandals for under $30 might be found among the well-worn leather jackets and polyester dresses.
With Sonic going back to two dimensions for the imminent Mania and the UbiArt Framework-assisted Origins and Legends showing that Rayman's never better than when he's running left to right in a side-on setting, right now feels like a perfect time for the slippery hero to slide back into his Super Suit for some on-brand mirth and mayhem.
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Ms. Anderson, 47, has after all honed her craft portraying weirdly troubled heroines: the special agent Dana Scully in "The X-Files," Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth," the police superintendent Stella Gibson in "The Fall," and most recently Blanche DuBois in a revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" first staged in London and set to open Sunday in Brooklyn at St. Ann's Warehouse.
But resisting these critiques — whether it's of "The House of Mirth" or the House of Marvel — with an automatic claim of canon feels like an act of dominion, the establishment of an exclusive kingdom complete with moat and drawbridge, which, of course, would make the so-called resenters a mob of torch-wielding marauders and any challenge to established "literary values" an act of savagery.
I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition; that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeareth no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
The acclaimed British director who began by making rigorously formal, deeply felt autobiographical films (The Terence Davies Trilogy, Distant Voices, Still Lives, Of Time and the City), followed by literary adaptations (The Neon Bible, The House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song) in his mid-to-late career, has finally come back to filming a life — not his own, but that of arguably the U.S.'s greatest poet: Emily Dickinson.
For certain viewers, and perhaps for this one in particular, Osman also crafts something along the lines of idyllic playgrounds, if not because of the happy harmonies and chromatic fun of his palette, and if not due to the relatively soft visual feel of most things made of wood, then certainly thanks to the sense of active mirth that seems to reside within his works — as if even his constituent squares and triangles might cast shadows of smiles.
The elevation of porn star Stormy Daniels to being perhaps the pivotal figure in Trump's possible downfall gave me hope that the evolution of the Russia scandal into the Russia-Sex scandal (they could turn out to be more interlinked than we guessed at first) would at last give us our deserved quotient of mirth while we agonize about the rampage of the federal government and the threats to our law enforcement provided by 45 (check his shirt cuffs—I believe that such an appropriation of a president's chronological ranking is yet another first for Trump; we have to grant him that).

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