Sentence examples for Ironic comedy from inspiring English sources

Arrant melodrama has replaced what could have been deeply ironic comedy and, from there on in, Falling Down falls in.

(He took his own advice: his various cruises on Alex's yacht became a masterly set piece of ironic comedy in his 1955 novella, "Loser Takes All").

By the weekend, a performance that at 1st seemed comprehensible only as dated melodrama or ironic comedy had turned into a patriotic pageant.

So when Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli landed him as their replacement for Sean Connery, he immediately saw the ironic comedy in the big-screen Bond.

He was an actor, director, and writer of revues and plays before he gained fame as a playwright for The Lady's Not for Burning (1948), an ironic comedy set in medieval times whose heroine is charged with being a witch.

The unamiable lovers do not attract sympathy; it is the social evil and not the romantic predicament on which attention is concentrated, and the action is kept well within the key of ironic comedy.

He shot the film in high-contrast candy-box color and scored it with music by Johnny Cash, the punk poet Jim Carroll and the ironic comedy-lounge singer Richard Cheese.

Maybe that's the irony of this most determinedly non-ironic comedy.

Her performance (at least early in the movie) is a bit of ironic high comedy.

Cybulski also appeared in Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers (1960), an ironic sex comedy which uncompromisingly dealt with modern Polish youth.

It was like Adventure Time on crack, but the pacing was more clever and ironic, physical comedy laden throughout the show's many layers.