Sentence examples for Ineffectual comedy from inspiring English sources
As this sweet, ineffectual comedy follows two sad sacks competing for the job of manager at a new branch of a Chicago grocery chain, it pointedly avoids the raucous bad-boy clowning of the typical Everyguy farce.
(Scott) 'THE PROMOTION' (R, 1 25) As this sweet, ineffectual comedy follows two sad sacks (Seann William Scott and John C. Reilly) competing for the job of manager at a new branch of a Chicago grocery chain, it pointedly avoids the raucous bad-boy clowning of the typical Everyguy farce.
(Scott) 'THE PROMOTION' (R, 1 25) As this sweet, ineffectual comedy follows two sad sacks (Seann William Scott and John C. Reilly) competing to become manager at a new branch of a Chicago grocery chain, it pointedly avoids the raucous, bad-boy clowning of the typical Everyguy farce.
Lighthearted diversions are definitely not on the menu at the treatment center where this wan, ineffectual comedy-drama is set.
It's fair to argue that the (accidental) violence against women in "Model" was ineffectual as comedy, but it wouldn't be right to talk about that plot line until fully considering its juxtaposition with "So Did The Fat Lady," where it became clear C.K. had a bigger point to make about the way we treat different sorts of women.
Priebus can seem like the dad in an old-time situation comedy, the ineffectual, slightly comic figure who accidentally switches shopping lists with a shady neighbor.
Ford then switched successfully to comedy as the affable, ineffectual occupation army officer Fishy in The Teahouse of the August Moon, trying to bring American-style democracy to Okinawa, but who goes native himself, and the bumbling navy PR man trying to do likewise on a South Pacific island in Don't Go Near the Water (1957).
Beetlejuice 1988 It doesn't have to be all doom and gloom as Tim Burton's comedy about a gang of infernal, ineffectual house-haunters proved.
Rebecca Front won best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme for her role as the ineffectual MP Nicola Murray while Peter Capaldi, who played the foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, took the best male award for a comedy.
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
