Sentence examples for an engine of comedy from inspiring English sources
After his transformation, he becomes -- as Martin Amis described his father, Kingsley, in another context -- "an engine of comedy".
But when you have to display the physical prowess and stamina of a Lance Armstrong to keep the engine of comedy humming at an acceptable level, it's a sure indication that there is something wrong with the machinery itself.
" 'Gringos' is an engine of pure delight" driven by "Portis's love for his characters, for Mexico, for all the magnificent eccentricities and pathos and comedy of both," Robert Houston wrote in these pages in 1991.
Accountability is an engine of progress.
It creates an engine of interest.
Attali: Germany is an engine of Europe.
The fighting part of it is an engine of the movie and an engine of the stakes.
And the engine of the comedy is its unsettling veracity.
Here, and throughout "Smut," the engine of the comedy is the crossing of genteel manners with the wilder things of life.
And, although the great engine of both comedy and satire is irony, in satire, as the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye has said, irony is militant.
