Sentence examples for a somewhat comic from inspiring English sources

The first picture on tap is "The Human Resources Manager," a somewhat comic character study that was Israel's submission for the best foreign language film Oscar this year.

Elsewhere he confronts the viewer with a long, monotonous, snaking line of laundry, a monotonous dry, green landscape -- and then for relief a somewhat comic yet incisive picture of a bearded gentleman walking several paces behind his prancing poodle.

Although he is a somewhat comic figure, his speeches are deadly earnest; Old Nestor knows that his is the only voice to keep memory of such past campaigns alive.

As Marshall made little news and was viewed as a somewhat comic figure in Washington because of his sense of humor, a number of Democratic party leaders wanted him removed from the 1916 reelection ticket.

But somebody better get the movie treatment of this in shortly, since Hollywood should inspect this tale of a somewhat comic dalliance, which didn't last very long but still left a distinct, positive impression on some of the students.

The picture shows an incubus, an evil spirit who to modern eyes looks somewhat comic, sitting on the stomach of a sleeping woman.

"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," which Twain had heard improvised by a backwoods forty-niner during a prospecting trip, is a somewhat inexplicable comic anecdote about a man who gets cheated in a bet about his pet frog.

The wits behind the controlled chaos that is "Hot Fuzz," a parody of Hollywood-style action flicks, wield a somewhat heavier comic cudgel than they did in their last big-screen outing, the zombie caper "Shaun of the Dead".

It was a dispute about grammar — Greeks feel passionate about many things, but grammar would have to rank near the top of the list — that led Socrates Lagoudakis, a columnist for the local paper with inflammatory, somewhat comic opinions, to condemn Cavafy as "another Oscar Wilde".

This is somewhat comic — they think they've found an explanation of life.

In another -- somewhat comic -- example, Tom and I were doing our last-minute Christmas shopping at a big toy store.