The juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect.
1 I like the black humor of much of the dialogue as well.
2 But the violent movement discharged the tension of his black humor .
3 And she noted with pleasure that he, too, was in a black humor .
4 Because of Woo's own black humor , though, he is more than a Peckinpah impersonator.
5 But the black humor of despair could not last.
6 Miike's films are overrated, but at least they're peppered with black humor and outrageous doings.
7 Fermented beverages and black humor are how we cope.
8 Homes, whose first name is Amy, often laces her novels with violence, sex and black humor .
9 It was an art form, part of the military culture like bawdy songs and black humor .
10 It felt a bit like a hangman's noose, he thought with a flash of black humor .
11 Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain.
12 He found himself wondering in a rush of black humor if he would be fried or sautéed.
13 Laurence thought, with black humor , that there was every reason: he knew Kaneko better than any other man present.
14 A tapestry of heartbreak, dread, looming violence and black humor , it resembled nothing so much as a sci-fi Sopranos.
15 That sort of black humor .
16 Ball seemed to realize for the first time that his black humor was not being received with wild enthusiasm.
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