Sentence examples for comic streak from inspiring English sources

She guested in detective stories, and sitcoms, especially after Blackadder showed off her comic streak.

In her childhood, Ms. Wentworth developed a comic streak, performing political skits in her mother's Washington dining room for guests like Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger.

On one hand, she is a gregarious stage personality with a comic streak in the tradition of the English music hall legend Gracie Fields, who like Ms. Jungr was born in the north English mill town of Rochdale, near Manchester.

The versatile, good-hearted Broadway belter with a comic streak does everything from a Fanny Brice impersonation to Stephen Sondheim's ribald soliloquy "I Never Do Anything Twice" (in the caricatured voice of a haughty English dominatrix).

"Harold & Maude: The Musical" (a somehow dispiriting title to begin with ) strains and sputters as it works to recapture both the movie's uplifting message, carpe diem and all that, and its subversive comic streak.

But she's also a novelist, one with a sharp social eye and a blistering comic streak, and her focus on nailing down the economic nitty-gritty of her plot is only one piece of the great, disconcerting fun she has in sending the world as we know it so vividly to hell.

These elegant, concise songs were cut through with a sometimes comic dark streak, as on "Goodbye Cruel World," on which he keens, "I leave you my memory and my girl/Treat them kind and tenderly/Like you never treated me".

But he also notes that a streak of comic fatalism runs through most "old boys"' rugby events.

What resulted was a volley of unpredictable gestures — solemn or wild, often futile, but not without a streak of comic dignity.

In 1976, Mr. Pryor was third-billed behind Mr. Wilder and Jill Clayburgh in "Silver Streak," a comic thriller about murder on a transcontinental train.

What resulted was a volley of unpredictable gestures solemn or wild, often futile, but not without a streak of comic dignity.