Sentence examples for comic intelligence from inspiring English sources
With dark skin and a defensively comic intelligence, Raj faces racism in America as relentless as any in England.
But the revived jokes are good ones, and the show still betrays an estimable comic intelligence at work.
It also de-emphasises Wallace's comic intelligence, commitment to truth-telling and romantic attachment to citizenly American ideals, an attachment that can strike a European reader as a weird combination of thoroughgoing scepticism and resolute anti-cynicism.
With its low-key determination to make things work and subtle comic intelligence, Aardman is likely to remain a dominant force in the British family-film market for the foreseeable future; you can't see it going down the laser-eyed, killer-robot route that baffled audiences of the Postman Pat movie.
"It's a breakthrough for Mr Williams, who, for the first time in movies, gets a chance to exercise his restless, full-frontal comic intelligence," the New York Times critic wrote at the time.
It's a kind of video sketchbook that lets you watch an individual comic intelligence at work.
But Keynes and Lopokova were both exceptional oddities: he possessed a rare intellectual curiosity and subtlety of imagination; she had an intuitive comic charm and intelligence.
His reading interests included literature, history, psychology, comics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, film, chaos theory and yoga.
Though her material is built around the self-deprecating confessional anecdotes – usually featuring relationships and drinking – beloved of many comics, her sharp intelligence and ability to play with the audience's expectations gives her performance a distinctive edge.
A. N. Wilson, an acclaimed novelist himself, praised its "comic realism, its warm intelligence, its lack of pretension" in The Daily Telegraph.
A comic actor of great intelligence who cheerily forsakes subtlety here, Mr. Murray is often very amusing as this pointed Shavian cartoon of a grasping opportunist — "an old scoundrel," as Morell calls him with familial amity.
