Sentence examples for act of comic from inspiring English sources

Until, that is, one morning, the solemn atmosphere was shattered by an unforgettable act of comic bravado.

With a signal act of comic violence, he carries off the model (Eva Mendes) with whom he's instantly smitten.

I'm not referring, of course, to the laborious British drama that's now in first run here but to Jean-Luc Godard's superb 1967 act of comic fury, which is at Film Forum, in a new print, through October 20th.

It was an act of madness, an act of comic violence, but it was no worse than any of the dangerous tackles, stampings, or buttings things that are generally far more painful and career-threatening than a bite that go on in soccer matches every weekend.

It was an act of madness, an act of comic violence, but it was no worse than any of the dangerous tackles, stampings or buttings – things that are generally far more painful and career-threatening than a bite – that go on in football matches every weekend.

The cowboy characters in Brad Smith's rowdy second novel, ALL HAT (Holt, $24), shoot from the lip and act out of comic desperation, a guarantee that someone is going to get hurt and someone else is going to pay.

In July 2013, it was confirmed that Grint will be making his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's second run of his black comedy, Mojo, playing the role as a minor hood called Sweets who pops amphetamines like Smarties and does a sort of double act, full of comic menace.

It is in the reflection of the woman's body on the car door: by some act of divine comic grace, the reflection happens to match up precisely with the head of the man so that he looks like the woman's ghostly, dwarflike double, a funny-surreal coincidence that, by adding a layer of unanticipated meaning to the picture, suddenly elevates it from nothing to something.

The clincher, though, lay in the spooky, languid smile she periodically let slip as mayhem — in the form of four people miming acts of terrible, comic brutality — exploded throughout the third-floor studio.

Like so many of the situation comedies from the 1980s and '90s (The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Home Improvement), Seinfeld was based upon the act of a standup comic, in this case the observational, "everyday life" humour of Jerry Seinfeld.

(Perhaps the only thing that might rival the tedium of ancient war is the act of drawing a comic about it. Shanower began researching the first volume in 1991 — it was published in 1998 — and the latest, Volume 3A, was released just this year).