Sentence examples similar to a trace of comedy from inspiring English sources

ABC's Friday night comedy lineup -- hugely promoted all summer -- barely stirred a ripple of interest last week, with one new series, "The Trouble With Normal," looking most troubled, while another new comedy, "Madigan Men," showed just a trace of life.

All of this is per usual for Mr. Ayckbourn, whose comedies have always held more than a trace of melancholy.

Neither Auster nor Coetzee comes with too much form for self-deprecatory comedy, but still you wait in vain for even a trace of the kind of unalloyed venom or convincing insecurity displayed by Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, say, in a similar context.

Not a trace of mud.

A trace of cushion.

A trace of perfume.

Without a trace of a smile, Mlle.

There was a trace of woodworm damage.

A trace of mineral smoke rises.

They're poetic, a trace of a trace".

It is a trace of human behavior.