Sentence examples for comic insight from inspiring English sources

His drawing and imagery were a way of thinking: not comic relief, but comic insight.

Their festive mix of comic insight and quirky visual wit transports youngsters beyond the ego to radiant realms of selflessness.

In the United States Emmett Kelly and Otto Griebling, both at their peaks in the 1930s and '40s, popularized the woebegone down-and-out "tramp" character who provided poignant and comic insight into the small tragedies of life.

Misogyny, misanthropy, despair - I've heard and embraced them all from this viciously funny US stand-up, because they are his points of access to comic insight, and his means of expressing a wounded idealism I find compelling.

However, The Mark Steel Lecture this week (Radio 7 | Listen on iPlayer) provided a comic insight into the poet's life that goes beyond the well known tales of seduction and incest.

(Maybe the playwright was out of town during rehearsals.) Mr. Thornton has a minute or two of comic insight into his deluded character, the bodyguard overwhelmed by his own importance.

But that's one of Cholodenko's generous comic insights – the unpredictability of attraction.

On the other hand, if you enjoy surprising, often comic insights into contemporary life, she's someone to relish.

But if there were nothing in the idea, Jackie Mason's and Lenny Bruce's—jokes would not be funny.Unfortunately, Mr Whitfield's book is too slapdash to turn stand-up comic insights into scholarship.

The funniest scenes have some of the improvised, pseudo-vérité flavor of Christopher Guest's "Best in Show," but Mr. Ferrell and Mr. McKay are less rigorous than Mr. Guest and his collaborators, preferring easy laughs to carefully turned comic insights.

The idea of Button getting younger and younger is not imbued with any great comic or tragic insight.