Quotes About Risible

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.