For the president and leaders of Congress to say all of this would evoke gales of laughter in the wake of recent action.
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In an interview on Saturday, Ms. Payne said just seeing herself on the phone's screen as she was recording set her off into gales of laughter.
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He is loping and saturnine, husky and housebound, with a tendency to bark, bay and growl; Knode is prone to gales of laughter and micro-bursts of surprise.
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They frequently reduced each other to gales of laughter with a joke or a reminiscence, and they found it both surreal and amusing to be figures of suspicion on three continents.
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An early scene in which Diane and Nat drink from a newly discovered bottle of rot-gut wine and burst into cathartic gales of laughter has a spontaneity that is otherwise absent.
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For years, the trustees on the committee could barely bring themselves to look at Abstract Expressionist paintings; in the fifties, the examples that Robert Beverly Hale, the curator of American paintings, brought in were usually met with groans and gales of laughter.
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It's about a poor family infiltrating the lives of a wealthy one, but the way they do it — and what awaits both as they become more entangled — rewards the viewer with such diverse riches as white-knuckle tension, class resentment and great gales of laughter.
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According to Ben, they are also what "modulates the high"; each variety of weed has its own terpene profile, which helps account for one of the riddles of cannabis: that even if two strains share the same psychoactive molecule — 22018-delta tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — one can make its users collapse in gales of laughter while the other produces paranoia and yet another seems (at least for a moment) to reveal the secrets of the universe.
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According to Ben, they are also what "modulates the high"; each variety of weed has its own terpene profile, which helps account for one of the riddles of cannabis: that even if two strains share the same psychoactive molecule — 22018-delta tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — one can make its users collapse in gales of laughter while the other produces paranoia and yet another seems (at least for a moment) to reveal the secrets of the universe.
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An even bigger mistake is the dialogue, which slipperily shuttles between the farcical and the portentous, inducing gales of laughter in the most inappropriate places.
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He used the brine and an area of shale that seeped an odorless, easily ignited gas to dry the salt. When the salt ran out, he had work started on mining a vein of iron ore. He set up an Iron Works that used a combination of acids to produce a less brittle form of iron. The suffering of the peasants sent him into gales of laughter.
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He received what was characterized by Esquire as "gales of laughter" as well as approval from the political press for his statement that "[w]e've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop," a reference to the report of Edwards, a 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate, spending $800 of campaign money on two haircuts.Esquire: John Edwards Political Future. January 21, 2010 Many supporters of the FairTax plan were also impressed by Huckabee's unfettered support of that proposed policy.
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After having appeared in vaudeville, Roberti made her Broadway debut in You Said It in 1931, and with its success became an overnight sensation. During her run with the show, she was nicknamed "Broadway's preferred Polish blonde". Historian Edward Jablonski found that "much of her appeal to the audiences at the time was due to her Polish accent" and cited instances where her pronunciation of certain consonants would "stir audiences to gales of laughter." She also appeared in the short-lived Gershwin musical Pardon My English in 1933.
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"Whether it goes one round or three rounds or ten rounds, it will be a fight and a fight all the way. When you've been through what I've had to face in the last two years, a Max Baer or a Bengal tiger looks like a house pet. He might come at me with a cannon and a blackjack and he would still be a picnic compared to what I've had to face." Baer, ever the showman, "brought gales of laughter from the crowd with his antics" the night he stepped between the ropes to meet Braddock.
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Donna Bowman of The A.V. Club rated the episode "Zoo or False" with a grade B−. Bowman claims that, although the script included many promising comedic elements, they "never seemed to settle into rhythm or find their natural relationship". The genuinely funny elements were overshadowed by a "lack of natural interaction or real emotion", originating with the cast's "unconvincing gales of laughter" at the idea of being mugged by a monkey. That stated, Bowman praised the episode addressing the line between a story and a truthful account, and a number of specific jokes in the episode. Amanda Sloane Murray of IGN gave the episode 9 out of 10.
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Behind the entire scene was placed a very large endless towel upon which is painted a mass of flames; this is kept in a constant upward motion. When viewed through an open window of the house, gives the audience a good idea of the raging furnace within. The play thrilled people, it held them on the edge of their seats with excitement, it drew forth gales of laughter, and it evoked buckets of tears which is what made it wildly successful and popular along with the spectacle. The sensational sensory spectacle is considered well worth the price of a ticket and keeps the audience coming back for more.
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" On 15 July, Marshall won the by-election and subsequently returned to the Legislative Assembly. David Marshall, as Chairman of the party, made his views known on merger at public rallies and radio talks. Marshall's stand on merger was that: > "... Singapore should seek equal privileges and rights for its citizens in > the new federation but surrender autonomy in education and labour, since > different policies in these crucial areas would undermine the stability of > Malaysia in the long run. He further maintained that if Singapore could not > negotiate for a complete merger, she should seek independence on her own, a > proposition which drew gales of laughter from the Legislative Chamber at > that time.
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