Sentence examples for Comical from inspiring English sources

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Comical

adjective

Originally, relating to comedy.

  • It was a comical performance

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Moreover, the demand that "employers giving up health care coverage convert health benefits into wages" is actually comical.

Asked to elaborate, he said: "We found them to be quite comical on account of how they were dressed and the excessive jewellery they were wearing".

There are comical collisions between new technology and old problems.

Her pieces varied in mood from lacerating and shocking to playful, comical and celebratory, but for most of her career she grappled with that brutally simple, tortuously difficult question: in the face of so much cruelty and suffering in the world, what are an artist's ethical and political responsibilities?

The defense and goalkeeper Luis Robles have been stellar, matching the team record for shutouts in a season, even though their momentary lapses have been comical.

This sounds slightly comical – a bunch of do-gooders holding up animal signs – but that's because we've come to see acts of caring as comical in themselves.

Of course, this might be because I haven't quite got my head around the idea that my comical ball of energy is going to become a little girl, let alone a teenager.

He entered No 10 wearing the straw boater of jaunty comical arrogance; he recently tried the itchy woollen hat of humble public servitude; and now he wanders between micro-managed photo-opportunities – a milk-guzzling lamb, a paint-smeared child – without any hat at all, bareheaded in the storms.

Diouf got his second with a viciously swerving shot from the edge of the area, which Mignolet could not lay a glove on, while the third followed a comical back header from Can which found only Jon Walters.

The novel explores the "comical see-saw" of the flesh and the spirit through the sinister Gilbert who is a controlling rationalist, prudently afraid of "the Passions", and Fenwick who pursues his desires while struggling to avert the threats to his identity occasioned by his strange pact with his godfather.

It was a technological advance Dunphy would use to comical effect some years later, pausing the action during a highlights package featuring Wimbledon to draw a large circle around John Hartson's ample buttocks and declare "that is not the arse of a £7m player".

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