Sentence examples for comic pattern from inspiring English sources

The movement of all these plays follows a familiar comic pattern, wherein characters are brought from a condition of affected folly amounting to self-delusion to a plain recognition of who they are and what they want.

The classical Sanskrit drama was heroic comedy high poetry, noble action, themes almost always taken from the myths a serious, religiously conceived drama, yet in the "comic" pattern, which is not a complete organic development reaching a foregone, inevitable conclusion, but is episodic, restoring a lost balance, and implying a new future.

The comic pattern is a persistent one; it appears not only in ancient Greek comedy but also in the farces of ancient Italy, in the commedia dell'arte that came into being in 16th-century Italy, and even in the routines of late-night television comedians and their straight men.

On the left is a kind of vertical comic-strip pattern, in the center the words "In Honor of the Arts," and to the right a single exclamation, "Pow!" At Taggart the stamp design hangs beside the 1909 "Bang" cartoon, tying the long, strong line of a grand American career together.

Rather than being like a traditional comics convention, it is patterned after European festivals such as Angoulême, and the American Small Press Expo.

But there are also a few standout graphic prints — camo, leopard, floral and one fun comic-book-inspired pattern — that add just the right pop of color.

Dawkins is an experienced lecturer, debater and public speaker, but has not appeared in a theatrical production since taking a leading role in Cecil Cook's comic operetta The Willow Pattern at the age of 13.

"I Love Lucy" was driven by a primal sitcom dynamic: two couples, four personalities -- attention-craving Lucy Lucille Balll), macho Ricky (Ball's real-life husband, Desi Arnaz), conflicted Ethel Viviann Vance and Ethell's irascible spouse Fred William Frawleyy) -- combining and breaking apart like squares on a child's sliding puzzle, creating patterns of comic possibilities.

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Lewis Thompson, who wrote a 1946 Talk of the Town piece about the visit, likened Camus to a character in the "Harold Teen" comic strips (read: slicked hair, patterned sweater, and baggy trousers).

(Comic by Marvel Comics).