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...She says her dad would have appreciated the gallows humour. Miranda GreenI mean, if you’re not gonna laugh, you cry, right? You have so many emotions, and there’s so many things to deal with....
...But I’m not convinced by this neat story of liberal Ireland sweeping away the religious deference of the past....
...“When I think deeply, I’m even happy that my daughter lost her life for her causes,” the mother of Nika Shakarami, 16, told Etemad daily newspaper after her child died during protests....
...Still: the Brexit cupboard cost little and afforded some gallows humour, so why not?...
...Narrated in the second person, Karunatilaka’s story covers many of the country’s atrocities with an intensity only occasionally alleviated by gallows humour. “I’m a trained butcher,” declares one thug....
...Gallows humour has always been one of the most important ingredients of my job....
...“In fact, it would be, like, ‘Now we’re talking about the border wall’, and I’d go, ‘All right, I’m off’.”...
...He headed up “Team M”, which was responsible for investigating Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman whose links to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs made him an obvious area of focus....
...Graham the needle-maker is an “Ethiop”, but even he causes offence by telling the boy: “I’m not quite sure what to call you — brown, maybe?”...
...And the firehouse is, of course, a hotbed of such gallows humour. “Soldiers make jokes about dead bodies, firemen have their jokes, cops have their jokes. All that type of stuff helps you.”...
...Ahead of broadcast, gallows humour pervades at the thought of enraging the Kremlin....
...But we start with coronavirus gallows humour. Hill’s mother recently paid upfront for her own funeral after Hill mentioned that an elderly neighbour had died....
...“I was born in Poland after the [democratic transition], so I’m this first generation that lived in a totally democratic environment....
...The truth is I’m probably worse. And so, a remedy. A day of unalloyed joy....
...My Turkish friends know all about gallows humour and they want a good laugh....
...Politicians heading into the annual conference are consoling themselves with glimmers of gallows humour: “I’m taking a poncho for all the spit,” says one MP....
...“I’m tense when I’m in the city. Here my feet are on the ground. My body is trained to walk. This is total relaxation, body and mind.”...
...Or as he puts it: “I’m just straight-up demented.” Written as a series of diary entries over 12 months, Goodbye, Vitamin explores the fallibility of impressions and recollections....
...Mrs May’s election offer of “strong and stable” leadership is now a staple of the gallows humour that has enveloped Conservative MPs....
...I’m not arguing that Trump is a Nazi. Rather, my point is that West Germans of Senfft’s generation knew how fragile democracy was, and did the daily work of strengthening it....
...A voice said: “I am Mehdi Jomaa, the new prime minister, and you are the first I’m contacting to become a minister in my cabinet.” Prof Jelassi, then 56, had never met Mr Jomaa....
...Glasses clinked and the crowd roared with laughter at Mr Azoff’s gallows humour, perhaps reflecting that they had long ago accepted the ravaged state of their industry....
...“But I’m not totally dismissive of the idea....
...I’m sure we all envy you having your own off-ramp.”...
...As he spoke, a vast half-built bridge uniting Asia with Europe loomed into view, suspended over the Bosphorus like a gallows....
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