Sentence examples for comic but from inspiring English sources

Almost comic, but not quite.

Mr. Ripley's mood is comic but sincerely so.

My work is comic but it's not its only purpose.

He is clever, harsh, comic, but his reach is narrow.

The wolf is comic but lacks sexual menace (nakedness is not enough).

The effect is sometimes comic, but with a complex, outraged commitment far beyond parody.

His work is unashamedly comic, but many of his cartoons are quite deliberately not funny at all.

Vimbai's narrative is economical, often comic, but it's sometimes burdened by cliché.

Brown Dog is mostly comic but he truly covers the waterfront, as they say.

He is not primarily a standup comic but a novelist, a poet, and a very confident young man".

In books, movies, and television, intelligence agents were portrayed in roles that were sometimes comic but often deadly serious.