Sentence examples for comic standard from inspiring English sources
It's a deft modernization of the black comic standard.
It was near the start of Calixto Bieito's production of Rameau's "Platée" at the Stuttgart Opera, and the orchestra was playing the sharp, seductive melodies of this comic standard of the French Baroque.
The mischievous narrator of the Christine Lavin-Tom Smith comic standard "Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind," keeps her mouth shut about her boyfriend's enthusiasms for opera, skiing and sushi — tastes she doesn't share.
Alan Bennett, once given the comic Standard award for a play he had intended as seriously dramatic, commented that it was "like entering a marrow for the show and being given the cucumber prize".
By the admittedly exceptional comic standards David has laid down, this ranks alongside an average episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards.
The Animaniacs comic series, like the show, parodied TV and comics standards, such as Pulp Fiction and The X-Files, among others.
But the human characters are so crowded out by computer voices croaking robotic mumbo-jumbo and by flashy special effects that they remain sketchy even by comic book standards.
The books are long by comic-book standards, with more pages and many more words to a page than usual.
It was grossly unrealistic, even by comic-book standards.
"It's a fairly standard comic position".
