Sentence examples for comic notes from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

A coarser comic note is struck by the very long ink handscroll on silk by the late 13th-century artist Yan Geng.

I took a seat and inspected my surroundings: Monk's is paradise for those who love dark wood, elaborate glassware and idiosyncratic details (a model dalek, looking down on the bar, strikes a comic note).

On a rather more bleakly comic note, Mr. Wright screens selections from a children's television show seen in Gaza, in which cute creatures — bumblebee and mouse and bunny — are killed off one after another, "martyrs" to the cause the children are already being indoctrinated to take up.