half-humorous

Mr. Pike, profoundly occupied with cracking walnuts, could not quite hide the wicked, little, half-humorous, half-revengeful gleam in his eyes.

CHAPTER VII 2010

In many apparently serious motets the tone-painting of individual words is so literal that one suspects a half-humorous intent, and occasionally one is sure of it: the concertato performance of motets is parodied in Laudent Deum cythara, in which five instrumental families are named, to music characteristic for each, in the space of a dozen bars the total length of the piece.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish.

The Nine Stages Of Civilization / We're In The Seventh ~ Apathy 2009

I was surprised, though, by M---'s reaction when I told her about the half-humorous question that drew the most enthusiastic audience response: whether the two remaining candidates would go for a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton "dream ticket"?

Peter Clothier: Clinton and Obama: At the Gym 2008

I make some throwaway, half-humorous remark in the middle of a comments thread and touch off multi-blog fireworks that go on for days.

Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007

No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish.

THE GREAT AMERICAN SIN IS APATHY 2007

The following three volumes of Flight, along with the gorgeous blog/website, seem to bear out his half-humorous future predictions.

Archive 2007-09-21 Book Nerd 2007

The following three volumes of Flight, along with the gorgeous blog/website, seem to bear out his half-humorous future predictions.

Graphic Lit Galore: Kabuishi, Bechdel, Robinson Book Nerd 2007

Se dit de quelque chose, d'un sentiment mitigé, ambigu, moitié bien, moitié mal./to speak of mixed, ambiguous feelings, half good, half bad also: wry (smile); a half-humorous, wry remark;

Cuisine 2004

I make some throwaway, half-humorous remark in the middle of a comments thread and touch off multi-blog fireworks that go on for days.

Oppressed by the label "Republican"? Ann Althouse 2006