Sentence examples for comic quality from inspiring English sources
Joe Parker, a political science professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, said the agency's machinations at times had "a certain comic quality".
Meanwhile, Olivia's lively old uncle, Sir Toby Belch (a distinguished and devilish Ronald Cohen), is hanging out with Sir Andrew Aguecheek Ian Gouldd, who has a Will Ferrell-like comic quality), a cheerfully oblivious young man.
In the opening scene, when five serving women jabber on about the wild behavior of the unkempt Elektra, Mr. Levine brought out a bizarre comic quality of the music not far removed from the sardonic humor that would later permeate "Der Rosenkavalier".
I get the subtext behind this detail – signifying as it does Ray's faltering connection with his son – but, in practice, it lends the scene an almost comic quality, with Ray racing about trying to get a phone signal like a character in an Orange Wednesday advert.
There was an edgy comic quality to our group.
Captain Magenta's comic quality as the herald of the attack is, similarly, another "wonderful example of 'Barwickism'".
From the strong supporting cast Mr. Lehnhoff drew portrayals that captured the black comic qualities of the play by Karel Capek that Janacek based his libretto on.
His other paintings from the period include bordello scenes and nudes, which possess comic qualities that challenge and satirize sexual mores, and portraits of families, which possess a gentle, affectionate quality.
"Nicholas Nickleby," his third novel, is like the love child of its predecessors, "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist": it merges the wandering, comic qualities of the first with the Gothic social vision of the second.
Stripped of the comic qualities of, say, Howard Belsey in Smith's 2005 novel, On Beauty, the characters in Swing Time are less likable; they are deeply flawed and their flaws map on to the course of their lives.
Sometimes, Qaddafi's comic qualities — the Sgt. Pepper Goes to Carthage getups, the "voluptuous" Ukrainian nurses and "virgin" bodyguards — obscured the depths of his cruelty: the basement torture chambers, the terror operations, the support lent to criminal dictators from Idi Amin to Charles Taylor.
