Sentence examples for comic point from inspiring English sources

He speaks in spangled outbursts whose comic point is that they are absurdly garrulous and unnecessary.

This is the first film in which Judy Holliday's politely soaring acumen really makes its comic point.

His embarrassment is obvious – in some ways it is the dramatic and comic point of the entire film.

Goldsmith saw people, human situations, and indeed the human predicament from the comic point of view; he was a realist, something of a satirist, but in his final judgments unfailingly charitable.

Even the rare moments when she's listening, making her froggy grunts into the phone, she telegraphs the show's central comic point: That to succeed in show business offstage, you need to be always on.

In fact, there is quite a bit going on most of the time in "Africa Screams," but there just isn't much comic point to all the hustle and bustle.

This longueur is a blackly comic point-counterpoint featuring gnawed sheep, paving slabs, wastrel locals off their bleary nuts on acid; and it says much about the confidence of the production that so long elapses before the first body intrudes.

In the comic "Points of Interest," an unemployed man, Gerald, enrolls in an adult education photography class.

In fact she's a borderline cutup, a warm, often antic presence who searches our every exchange for comic points of entry.

Still, by this time Mr. Daisey has won enough comic points to make you feel as if the good guy has triumphed.

Some of the group scenes lacked focus and suggested that someone from the company's staff should rehearse them scrupulously so that their dramatic and comic points are made clearly and without unnecessary fuss.