Sentence examples for a strain of comedy from inspiring English sources

It's a bleak book, with an accumulation of unpleasant physical detail and a strain of comedy and affection — Down and Out in Tampa and Lehigh Acres.

Mr. Swarup's second novel, "Six Suspects," is a Bollywood version of the board game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in.

The protagonist's conclusive act of devotion has a rare, symphonic exaltation; a theatrical decrescendo that reunites the characters with a strain of bluff comedy raises the stuff of daily life to luminous glory.

The other titan of American slapstick, Buster Keaton, channelled his knowledge of engineering into a strain of mechanical comedy, visible from his first two-reelers to his masterpiece The General (1926).

A strain of fantastic comedy, influenced by Gozzi in its juxtaposition of the fairy-tale world and reality, was developed in Germany and Austria in the plays of Johann Nestroy and Ferdinand Raimund.

A darker strain of comedy comes into play after Boy finds himself in Guantánamo.

Still, it is heartening to see a writer as good as Coe trying to bring a once-rich strain of comedy back into contemporary fiction.

'I've been listening to Henry Cow since 1974 and I'm still not tired.' As befits a man whose strain of comedy fights shy of conventional categories, Reeves likes difficult music.

Coupling Generation Y's fascination with cultural ephemera with a strain of political invective reminiscent of alternative comedy in the 1980s, he demands; "Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover./ Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover.

Cheese is a strain of marijuana.

However, the decision is in line with a general TV policy of suppressing a certain strain of racial comedy from the 1970s.