Sentence examples similar to a comic mug from inspiring English sources
It turned out that this tinny, manufactured sound was the way Mr. Melrose sings, although he masked his vocal deficiencies with an abundance of comic mugging.
Debutante No. 3 was Kathryn Cowdrick, a solid if slightly hooty mezzo, as the sneezing maidservant Berta; while the fourth, Leigh Melrose, tried to mask his vocal inadequacies with an overabundance of comic mugging as Figaro.
If the evening springs one real and welcome surprise, it is that Lipman gets the opportunity to remind us what a fine and subtle actor she is away from all the comic mugging.
But was she encouraged by the director to do so much comic mugging?
Debutante No. 3 was Kathryn Cowdrick, a solid if slightly hooty mezzo, as the sneezing maidservant Berta; while the fourth, Leigh Melrose, tried to mask his vocal inadequacies with comic mugging as Figaro.
Mr. Borle has a great comic's mug, with popping eyes ready to leer, and his seduction of (or is it by?) the silvery-voiced Jennifer Laura Thompson, as the bookish but lusty Clair de Loone, is played with pert charm.
Not since Jim Carrey twitched, mugged and leered his way to the head of the class has a comic actor stirred up such a gleeful furor on the screen.
They need a comic seriousness".
