Sentence examples for comic manner from inspiring English sources

Wellman doesn't do much with the camera, but his comic manner is abrupt and tough-minded.

Sometimes they toppled in a grotesquely comic manner like human bowling balls.

But Penhall has the gift of making serious points in a comic manner and of conveying moral indignation without preaching.

She was frequently praised for her masterful depiction of ordinary lives, and for her ability to present complex and subtle subject material in a deceptively light, comic manner.

The latter use comes as a surprise because Auden was imitating Byron's comic manner in Don Juan, a poem written in ottava rima.

Like the other three actors, Stephen Berger, Scott Davidson and John Treacy Egan, Mr. Leviton has a lived-in face and an old-school comic manner that puts the audience at ease.

New York Jewish comic manners were still around, only they were no longer practiced by Jews, or were practiced by Jews as something learned rather than as something felt... Writer describes the Jewish mannerisms of the Asians who run Sable's delicatessen.

New York Jewish comic manners were still around, only they were no longer practiced by Jews, or were practiced by Jews as something learned rather than as something felt... Writer describes the Jewish mannerisms of the Asians who run Sable's delicatessen..

She was a pioneering and somewhat avant-garde nightclub performer, deconstructing songs and perfecting an archly comic onstage manner.

"The scene takes place in an unrealistic, comic and slapstick manner which is likely to be familiar to young viewers, who expect the Minions to survive.

His drawling pauses as he calculated his advantage were a prime comic device, the manner of a brute swathed in sophistication, so sure of success that he never needed to rush.