Sentence examples for comic cynicism from inspiring English sources

The vicious comic cynicism of the first half gives way to vicious unbelievable sentiment in the second half.

Guitry's casual frankness and comic cynicism about sex seem like a French national trademark; he depicts a world of stage, screen, and press in which erotic freedom is a given, bourgeois morality a sin, and marriage, suspect.

Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum warned of the Coens' "adolescent smarminess and comic-book cynicism", and described Barton Fink as "a midnight-movie gross-out in Sunday-afternoon art-house clothing".

Certainly that film's light comic touch and amused cynicism disappeared when Korda turned the direction of its follow-up, "The Rise of Catherine the Great" (1934), over to another wandering Hungarian, Paul Czinner.

So in a world filled with so many anti-heroes, darker and edgier comics and movies, villains, negativity, cynicism, etc.; perhaps this particular comic could provide something positive.

Where Richardson differs from the common herd of young cheeky-chappy comics is his innate cynicism, and a constant grumpy narkiness that makes him seem older than his years.

Cynical about my cynicism?

This unpretentiousness is evident in their comic tone, too: sharp and devoid of cynicism or cheap shots, Yonderland is at heart aimed at children, but is savvy enough to make jokes that any demographic would enjoy.

Written by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt, the screenplay has more words per scene than the comic includes on a given page, but the cynicism and blood sport are pretty much the same.

Maintaining a winking distance from his comic persona, Mr. Spade radiates a cunning show-business cynicism that lets you know he's aware that he's slumming to make a buck.

A Cholmondeley-Warner voiceover narrates the tragi-comic escapades of the Span with a brilliantly dispassionate cynicism: "A hit for the Span could propel them from abject poverty and nervous breakdowns to a life of luxury," he surmises.