Sentence examples for Sardonic comedy from inspiring English sources

Sardonic comedy lurks within the strange pairing.

The Coens' sardonic comedy comes off as an appealing variety of spice, far from the substance of Spielberg's vision.

Under John Blondell's creatively focused direction, they kept our hearts and minds engaged through continual sharply meaningful contrasts of violence, sardonic comedy, and lyricism.

"Highway 61 Revisited" shifted its blues beat from the 1960s back to the 1930s, taking on a swing that brought out its darkly sardonic comedy.

Where other film-makers (the Coens, for instance) would have mined Jasmine's disgrace for sardonic comedy, Allen sees as much poignancy in her comedown.

Before he was Phil on "Ed," Mr. Black was part of the sardonic comedy group the Slate.

Your weekly guide to fall TV ». "One Mississippi" is also one of several new deeply personal and often sardonic comedies that revolve around women in various stages of self-exploration (see also "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," "Lady Dynamite," "Better Things" and the upcoming "Fleabag"), and like the new series "Better Things," it has a very high Louis C.K. factor.

The president of the jury, Nanni Moretti, who won the Golden Palm in Cannes for "The Son's Room" earlier this year, was said to favour "Secret Ballot", a sardonic Iranian comedy by Babak Payami about a female official trying to persuade a group of largely illiterate islanders to vote.

<i>Stinking Heaven</i> is the sardonic new comedy about recovering addicts who reside in a chaotic self-run sober-living home that sells kombucha out of a van.

Some of it is hilarious, he said, especially the "youthful, sardonic, stand-up comedy approach" taken in one section.

Michael Lehmann's sardonic, amoral black comedy seemed vastly preferably to the slightly hokey melodrama of Pump up the Volume.