Sentence examples for comic note from inspiring English sources

But it is the comic note that prevails as Marianne and Jacob make their way upward in society.

This and her precipitate volte-face into optimism bring a deliberate comic note to the gathering doom.

The conceit that Shostakovich was an avid reader of military-affairs coverage in the Times added a slight comic note to the proceedings.

And Stephen Spinella, as Simon Stimson, the town drunk who turns into the town suicide, wrings every sour comic note from a small part.

He provided a comic note to counterbalance the dark story by casting Michel Vuillermoz, a top actor with the Comédie-Française, as the Duc de Montpensier.

Besides this comic note, sorryforlaughing describes a later scene, featuring Meany as the Ghost of Christmas Future in a performance of A Christmas Carol, as "wonderful".

He has written a novel that not only hits the bright comic notes of his best earlier fiction but also deftly downshifts to play the darker, more minor scales as well.

And in the lead Mr. Hock, who enters barefoot and shambling with the absent-mindedness that is familiar from plays and films that deal in realistic portrayals about the old, generally has trouble finding original comic notes.

This hits the comics note and performs a Calvino-style reflexivity move.

It ends, as well, on a high-comic note: "There is one thing you all will be able to say when you go home.

But having struck variously angry or black-comic notes in its opening section, it morphs into a piece of indie-sentimental awards-bait for its producer-star Jennifer Aniston.