humoresque

How to use humoresque in a sentence

• The unearthly beings meet us in all guises, and answer our every mood, whether it be serious or awed, satiric or humoresque.

  The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction | Dorothy Scarborough

• But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day.

  The Art Of The Moving Picture | Vachel Lindsay

• Heine's "Des Waldes Kapellmeister" has been made into a most hilarious humoresque.

  Contemporary American Composers | Rupert Hughes

• In short, in nearly every Negro unit there set in a humoresque attitude to the war.

  The Soul of John Brown | Stephen Graham

• She played, as once before she had played when life seemed sad and tragic, the "humoresque."

  The Street of Seven Stars | Mary Roberts Rinehart