Sentence examples similar to callous comedy from inspiring English sources
The intravenous jab of callous madness, black comedy and strange unwholesome euphoria in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction hits me as hard now as when I first saw it 20 years ago.
British comedy is notoriously callous, with an unyielding ban on sentimentality or political correctness.
The show is not a snarky sendup of loveless nerds or callous swingers; it's a fairly gentle comedy about burnouts who call themselves a band of brothers.
The blithering rich at the center of many Depression-era white-tie-and-tails movies are depicted mainly as callous villains in Gregory La Cava's comedy "My Man Godfrey" (new on DVD from Universal), from 1936.
By Richard Brody The blithering rich at the center of many Depression-era white-tie-and-tails movies are depicted mainly as callous villains in Gregory La Cava's comedy "My Man Godfrey" (new on DVD from Universal), from 1936.
July 23 DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS Jay Roach ("Meet the Parents") directs a remake of Francis Veber's 1998 French comedy "The Dinner Game," with Paul Rudd as the callous executive who invites a hopeless nerd (Steve Carell) to his boss's monthly dinner.
This all may sound callous to modern sensibilities, but there is an impressive honesty to it: the comedy of the Civil War preferred to directly engage suffering rather than hide behind stern reverence.
