Voorbeelden van tongue in cheek

• His tongue-in-cheek comparison of the religious life with the life of a fox-hunting man has a certain wry panache.

• The style is breezy, and often tongue-in-cheek, and deals fairly with controversial issues such as animal rights and bioethics.

• Although his account was unpolished and obviously written in haste, he had a tongue-in-cheek wit that is most attractive.

• A seriously tongue-in-cheek essay on helping learners learn through doubting and challenging, and not through swallowing whole what they are told in the classroom or a book.

• Equally, they were obviously tongue-in-cheek, which admittedly is a form of humour not always appreciated in other countries.

• There is a good deal of tongue-in-cheek quibbling by some people about it.

• There has been a certain tongue-in-cheek attitude over this matter.

• A tongue-in-cheek award of parliamentarian of the year was made to the leader of my party, who deserves many awards, but perhaps not that one.

• Although this is perhaps a slightly tongue-in-cheek debate, it has a serious point.

• That remark is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but television's influence on our national game has led to many regrettable situations.

• I hope that it was tongue-in-cheek, but it argued that, if people living in rural areas could not afford the price of petrol, they should move to the cities.

• We did write gore lyrics, but it was more like kind of tongue-in-cheek, horror-movie type level.

• Stylistically, the duo has been described as a big sound in a small package with upbeat tempos and tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

• The columns were also somewhat tongue-in-cheek, accompanied also by a cartoon (the cartoonist has also been sentenced to four months in jail).

• The tongue-in-cheek references in this fake biopic were drawn from various sources.