Sentence examples for comic device from inspiring English sources

How efficient, though, is embarrassment as a comic device?

I found myself wondering the other day whether the theatrical aside is an essentially comic device.

It's a great comic device but, sadly, it's not something Rae does in real life.

I'm not saying that the dim-witted northerner character is a not great comic device.

"It's a comic device that gets us through a lot of issues".

(A satirical novelist like Evelyn Waugh would have blanched at such a crude comic device).

This leads to the comic devices of imitation, impersonation, and disguise.

Deploying comic devices, Mr. Krymov makes us feel the human tragedy of one gifted man's life.

Even the lists, employing one of the easiest comic devices and one seemingly beaten to death by David Letterman's nightly Top 10, are often home runs.

Come to think of it, the loud snoring of drunken old men -- to say nothing of the amusing guttural and gastric noises they continually emit -- is one of the film's prized comic devices, as are the uncontrollable lust of a fat woman, a gunshot wound in a man's buttock, and the observation that policemen are fond of doughnuts.

In movies and television, there's a long, honorable tradition, still alive, of the straight-talking sidekick, but, in the clichéd context of "Monster-in-Law," having a black servant around to talk back to her mistress is a mortifying reversion to comic devices from sixty years ago, when Eddie Anderson's Rochester sassed Jack Benny.