Sentence examples for broad comic from inspiring English sources

It includes broad comic moments about artificial insemination.

A book as rich and resonant as "Casa Rossa" doesn't need such broad comic relief.

The show's broad comic strokes were as old-fashioned as his aggressively heroic ballad style.

The strongest Broadway reprise was "One Hundred Easy Ways," which she acted in a broad comic style.

She's helped by surrounding cast members who know how to infuse broad comic stereotypes with individualistic quirks.

Vachon's broad comic tendency keeps intruding on the novel of manners he seems to want to write.

Brecht's parable about a kindly streetwalker who discovers that following your heart isn't possible in a society driven by money, was largely performed in a broad, comic-strip style that worked best in the show's moments of song.

And Mr. Gaines, a very fine actor, here uses broader comic flourishes than are his wont, as if they might help fill that big, empty stage.

The movie's funniest and broadest comic moments show Tate's Off Off Broadway debut in an excruciating one-man show, "Hate Crimes and Broken Hearts".

Under the direction of Susanna White, a television veteran ("Generation Kill," "Bleak House") making her feature debut, "Nanny McPhee Returns" forsakes the menacing air and psychedelic color scheme of the original for a broader comic tone and a sunny, gold-flecked palette.

Lanchester is probably still best known as a novelist for his funny and exhaustingly brilliant 1996 debut The Debt to Pleasure, the confessions of a homicidal foodie, cast in the form of a series of menus; his hero, Tarquin Winot, was a kind of Humbert Humbert reinvented in a broader comic key.