Sentence examples for comic cruelty from inspiring English sources
The result is a drama whose comic cruelty is often mitigated, and the arrival of the Cravens' long-lost gay son in another guise sits oddly and distractingly through most of the first half.
"The Saddest Music in the World" is a film that seems like nothing so much as Mr. Maddin directing a Coen Brothers movie; the idiosyncratic comic cruelty teeters against a plot that continually unfolds.
Less remarked upon is the sly double-edged effect of their films, where colorblind casting or the use of actors with disabilities can function equally as sight gag and social comment, and where the comic traditions of cruelty and mortification are subsumed into a spirit of inclusiveness.
Darkmans is also the dark man, Scogin himself, inhabiting the characters, driving them to acts of cruelty and comic destruction.
His new film, "Paradise: Love" (the first installation in a trilogy that will open in the United States in the coming months), is a tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy and then replaces those responses with squirming discomfort.
Summer Romances The summer's most intellectually ambitious film, "Possession," adapted from A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winovel novel about literary detective work in contemporary England, finds the director Neil LaBute, that comic master of sexual cruelty and dysfunction, venturing into the gauzier romantic territory of "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
A few years ago a Tumblr popped up that cut out the last panel from various Peanuts strips to highlight the cruelty of the comic universe the kids lived in.
A similarly benign chair section had its own tinge of cruelty in an otherwise comic landscape.
It's interesting to watch a comic whose chief mode is lordly cruelty cop so abjectly to his provincialism.
How, I asked myself, could a "comic book" begin to convey the cruelty, injustice and absurdity of life in that betrayed, golden land?
