Sentence examples for comic sense from inspiring English sources

Ratner's Star (1976) attracted critical attention with its baroque comic sense and verbal facility.

He brings a sputtering comic sense to the incomparably egotistical Richard.

MARIANNE SIMONE Still Young at Heart Marianne Simone had the comic sense of a Lucille Ball.

Yet Verdi's comic sense is not all that bad, starting with a galumphing tune in the overture.

Among members of the House, partisan redistricting has also bred an almost comic sense of entitlement to landslides.

This gently comic sense of ironic, bitter, and morally exhausted desperation even has its own Kafkaesque emoticon: ¯__/¯.

Ayckbourn, so gloriously ingrained in so many English comic traditions, is here ridiculing ignorant Puritanism much like Ben Jonson, while Gatiss's tragic-comic sense of his own incompetence is suddenly like Uncle Vanya's.

This isn't exactly what is happening here, and Colter's affections are engaged with Christina, not Goodwin – but equipoised with the action and thrills, there is a serio-comic sense of fantasy and romance that have been endangered by this terrifying situation in one sense, but in another sense made possible by it.

Telling Ebrahim's story as a comic makes sense because comics are a universal language.

Prince pauses, then adds, with a comic's sense of timing: "They didn't go for it".

"I carried off camera lighting to really accentuate those characters" said Mr. Novak, who often gave his characters a noir comic book sense of menace, despite shooting in full daylight.