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She added, “The combination of his casual and humoristic approach to the act of photographing, and his obsessive dedication, made him a unique artist that we have lost today with great sadness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023

“There’s a bit of a humoristic aspect,” she said, “as if the tree would like to leave its planter.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

The title has a properly whimsical suggestion, but there could be no adequate heading for this humoristic beauty.

From Time Magazine Archive

But this mood soon passes, and is merged in the humoristic and fantastic elation characteristic of this buoyant writer, whose whim it is to meet the tragedy not mournfully but boisterously.

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

Of Cranford Lord Houghton wrote, "It is the finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to British literature since Charles Lamb."

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)