There is certain black humor in how confident the investor mood swung just before Friday.

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Or not an out-and-out horror movie, but a horror movie leavened with large doses of black humor.

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Shi Shusi, a well-known media commentator, sees black humor in the flood of petitions to the White House.

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And just as I thought of black humor Lihn extracted a little bottle of pills from his pocket.

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These songs make for a not-bad record, but it's largely the similarities to the books, their black humor and oblique sense of populism, that make The Tragic Treasury an interesting listen.

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Mr. Hirst's work has a streak of black humor running through it, so he must have appreciated the irony that the sale in September 2008 finished only hours before the announcement of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers.

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It's survivalist black humor.

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In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.

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He is a classic type of the generation that received an American education and returned to China a chain-smoker with a thick brush of gray-flecked black hair, Ferragamo eyeglasses, and a bilingual sense of humor.

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Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor.

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