Sentence examples for a comical name from inspiring English sources

(Of course, if you had social savvy, you wouldn't be drinking someplace with a comical name).

The writer in devolution is called Logan Mountstuart, a vaguely comical name assigned to a man too easily distracted by the hedonism of England's inter-war years.

The event would become known as the Battle of The Beanfield, a misleadingly comical name for what was a milestone in Thatcher's iron-fisted assault on dissent.

"He was almost like a comical figure.

Tubby Hook (Sunday) Despite its comical name, this bit of land between Fort Tryon and Inwood Hill Parks in northern Manhattan had a serious role during the Revolutionary War.

My companion, Stephen Lines, and I had decided to get in some beach time while in the west of Cuba last February, and had chosen the resort of María La Gorda in part for its comical name -- Fat Maria -- and in part for its geographic appeal.

Jarvis and his colleagues had already used their marker gene, with the faintly comical name of ZENK, to map the brain regions involved in vocal learning in songbirds and parrots, discovering that basically the same seven regions are involved.

Now follows New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose comical name and clumsy dishonesty have so enraged the U.S. media.

Several years earlier, Travers had published a newspaper short about a comical nanny named Mary Poppins.

The long and short of it: The item here about intersections with comical names brought this note from Chris Arndt: "Here in San Luis Obispo, in a newly developed shopping area, we have Long Street and Short Street (and Short is, indeed, shorter than Long).

He invented comical names for politicians - thus did the then Conservative attorney general Sir Reginald Manningham-became became Sir Reginald Bullying Manner.