Sentence examples for be essentially comic from inspiring English sources

Atkinson's Fagin may be essentially comic but he endows the character with a camply sinister edge.

The moments are essentially comic, despite a very serious undertone.

This situation was essentially comic, and thus suited to Ms. Satpathy's broader acting.

Mr. Almodóvar acknowledges misfortune — and takes it seriously — from a perspective that is essentially comic.

The surprise of The Brethren (Century, £16.99) is that its plot is essentially comic.

LOS ANGELES — One Los Angeles team has a majestic tradition, the other a history that is essentially comic.

Then came the complete ceasefire and my last novel: The Anatomy School (2001) is essentially comic with an optimistic tone.

The tragic squalor of her demise concluded a life that was essentially comic in its zest, and the songs, by some miracle, seemed to predict the former even as they revelled in the latter.

In fact, though the form is essentially comic, the entire thing is fretted with all sorts of sadness, one of which is the death of Cassandra's mother when she was a child: "Mother died eight years ago, from perfectly natural causes.

I have to say that I felt positively youthful while setting down Harry Chapman's progress to the grave, for the book is essentially comic, like At the Jerusalem and Old Soldiers.

J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.