What's the difference between epicerastic and humour?
Epicerastic
Definition:
(a.) Lenient; assuaging.
Example Sentences:
Humour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(2) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(3) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
(4) This study shows that aqueous humour examination for toxoplasma antibodies is a valuable diagnostic tool in a selected group of posterior uveitis patients.
(5) The concentrations of several post mortem aqueous humour chemical constituents were compared with ante mortem serum chemical values in the horse.
(6) The cAMP level in aqueous humour also decreased, with an increase in cGMP level increased.
(7) How she would have enjoyed meeting up with people she hadn’t seen for years, and looking back with humour and affection.
(8) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
(9) "In terms of targeting there are similarities [with Dave], it has continued to deliver outstanding numbers but it relies on a lot of UK specific humour.
(10) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(11) The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom".
(12) It was hypothesized that the body-symptoms are correlated to humour.
(13) They’re peculiarly British but the appeal of the humour and the ever-present message that good people always win is absolutely global.” “These films are a part of British culture and to be carrying on the legacy of [original Carry On writers] Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell is a thrill and a responsibility,” said Dawson.
(14) These findings, together with the morphological similarities between the rat and primate aqueous humour outflow pathways, particularly the presence of a single canal of Schlemm, suggest that the rat may be a valuable model for future studies of the normal and abnormal mechanisms of aqueous drainage.
(15) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
(16) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
(17) Sometimes people think that I ... am surprising in that I laugh and use my sense of humour within my work.
(18) Yet, ultimately, the film honours Dengler's good humour, his resilience, his overwhelming desire to live; after describing the many horrendous tortures the Viet Cong inflicted on him, he shrugs and says: "They were always thinking up new things to do to me!"
(19) Whole-body autoradiography in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) after oral and intravenous administration of 3H-labelled aflatoxin B1 showed labelling of several extrahepatic tissues, such as the uveal melanin and the vitreous humour of the eyes, the trunk and head kidney, the olfactory rosettes and the pyloric caecae.
(20) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.