(n.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
(n.) One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
(n.) One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(2) He had to be content with the immense joy that he did give, apparently effortlessly; with being the most consistently funny raconteur of his time, recognised as a peer by virtually all other humorists, such as Frank Muir (obituary, January 3 1998), who called him "one of the best-loved people in the world".
(3) He lacks what Amis and most of the later English humorists have possessed - sentimentality.
(4) Although much of his work was comedy, like many professional humorists, Waterhouse hated people telling him jokes.
(5) Robert Charles Benchley (1889-1945), an American humorist, critic, and actor, was known to say that when the thought of exercise came upon him, he would lie down until the thought passed over.
(6) But - along with a few others, including Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock and perhaps the early Mel Brooks - he came as close to genius as any humorist in his time.
(7) An Apple spokesman says that the company’s guidelines now make explicit that that “professional political satirists and humorists are exempt from the ban on offensive or mean-spirited commentary”.
(8) Roth would probably agree with the American humorist Peter De Vries who observed, of American literary life, that "one dreams of the goddess Fame – and winds up with the bitch Publicity".
(9) For a humorist who came on the scene in the 1960s, Coren was surprisingly prudish.
(10) Despite a move to London in the 1970s, he remained an essentially northern humorist - or anyway, a Manchester United supporter.
(11) Charles Dickens is known as a novelist, humorist, humanist, and a social reformist.
(12) Bradbury was a prolific writer - as an academic critic, as a novelist and humorist, and for television, a medium which increasingly fascinated him.
(13) I am a professional humorist, and objectively the third most critically acclaimed British standup comedian of the 21st century.
(14) It is a therapeutic method, which allows in a rather humoristic way, without provoking lots of resistance, to contact the subpersonalities of a client.
(15) The German physicist and writer Lichtenberg (1742-1799) was well known during the nineteenth century as a humorist, thinker, and psychologist.
(16) There’s Amy Sedaris and her brother (celebrated prose humorist David) and, Amy and Greg Poehler, now running new US sitcom Welcome To Sweden together.
(17) Beaconsfield library was "the cannabis", "the coke" came when he discovered a nearby secondhand bookshop, "the right kind, it smelt of secondhand books", and devoured the Molesworth books, Sellar and Yeatman – all the best humorists.
(18) One of my favorite quotes is taken from a book title by humorist and author Lewis Grizzard: Shoot Low Boys--They're Riding Shetland Ponies.
Pleasant
Definition:
(a.) Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.
(a.) Cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.
(n.) A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(2) Subjects also rated the pleasantness of 29 foods listed on a questionnaire.
(3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(4) It is pleasant walking, full of character and constantly changing views.
(5) At the end of the experiment, the concentration of salt in soup rated as tasting most pleasant increased in the group which added the crystalline salt to food.
(6) Some of the choices involved will not be pleasant ones.
(7) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(8) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
(9) Nearby there is a pleasant park with tables and a barbecue.
(10) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
(11) The house she walks back to, and in which she and her husband, Geoff, live, is pleasantly unexceptional.
(12) Patients with Down's syndrome usually have mild and pleasant temperaments, rarely exhibiting temper tantrums or behavioral problems.
(13) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
(14) The wipes were found to be pleasant and convenient to use.
(15) I am always pleasantly amazed by how the city continues to be improved.
(16) "The reality is that we've got a situation where the Conservative party is being run almost as if it's an exclusive coterie, and it's an exclusive coterie on the left of centre of the Conservative spectrum, allied with the Liberal Democrats who are, I think, much more pleasant to associate with from their point of view," he said.
(17) Branagh, who received his fifth Oscar nomination (all, incidentally, have been in different categories) declared himself "absolutely thrilled", adding: "It was such an enjoyable experience to make, and this is a very pleasant outcome."
(18) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
(19) To determine the contribution of sensory stimulation to the changing hedonic response to foods, the effects of consuming very low-calorie and higher calorie versions of soup and jello on the subjective pleasantness of foods were compared.
(20) The motive seemed to be removal from prison to the fairly pleasant surroundings of the local hospital.