Sentence examples for become comic from inspiring English sources

Although her characters are fiercely funny, they never become comic butts like Pistol or Nym.

There is also comedy here, though, in the sense that we become comic when we are most mechanical.

Hogarth, an 18th-century English broadsheet satirist, anticipated the funny pages in the late 19th century with visual techniques that would become comic conventions.

In parish churches such as Iffley near Oxford, there are decorative, almost playful zigzag patterns and lively carvings which, at Kilpeck in Herefordshire, become comic and bawdy.

In "Haven," a new television series ever so slightly based on the novella, the two newspapermen (now brothers) have become comic relief, and the young woman has taken center stage.

Boeing Boeing, first seen in London more than 40 years ago (with Leslie Phillips), later filmed with Tony Curtis, has become comic glory in Matthew Warchus's perpetual motion, perpetually funny production.

As much as his twin artistic concerns (the collision of the fantastic and the ordinary), Gray's twin material obsessions (broken contracts and financial crises) become comic-grotesque tales in their own right.

Leicester comedy festival organises an annual event with TV channel Dave, where journalists learn to become comics and do a short set in front of a live audience.

Even her cleavage becomes comic.

Anger that has absolutely no effect on anyone and so, of course, becomes comic".

The philosopher Regis Debray warned that French intellectuals became "comic" when they tried to interfere in foreign affairs.