Sentence examples for comic mood from inspiring English sources

Mr. Waititi works fast, setting a bright, light comic mood that owes something to Wes Anderson but is organically his own.

These scenes are played not for straight horror but with a benign, almost comic mood: After he gets over the initial shock, Mike would like nothing better than to have his wife around to lean on, even if he can't physically lean on her.

A comic mood would require displays of raillerie (playful teasing), plaisanterie (joking), bons mots (epigrams), traits and pointes (rhetorical figures involving "subtle, unexpected wit", according to Benedetta Craveri, a historian of the period), and, later, persiflage (mocking under the guise of praising).

Beyond that, you need to see the films slowly and steadily, and see how gradually in his work the paranoia has given way to a lighter, more comic mood in which the designs of plot and intrigue (though possibly malevolent or dangerous) are also like music song - diverting, spiritual and uplifting.

She has been programmed, to delicious comic effect, with mood music that floods out of her in emotionally arousing situations.

Skunky, karma-comic changes of mood are set against slow, suffocating beats.

They sang a duet of the party-song pop duo LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It": "I'm in a Speedo tryin' t' tan my cheeks.... I'm sexy and I know it!" As a writer and as a performer, Springsteen is in command of a variety of themes and moods: comic and grandiose, political and mindless.

Mr. Ripley's mood is comic but sincerely so.

But there is no nudity and again the mood is comic.

As the live audience falls silent, Normal times his brightening of the mood to comic perfection.

LYMAN -- I wondered if what happened on Sept. 11 changed the mood for comic mayhem in a New York setting.