Sentence examples for comic tour from inspiring English sources

The 1960s were a comic tour de force.

He did, of course, and deserved to with a comic tour de force.

A merciless food critic meets her match in TC Boyle's comic tour de force.

Nabokov's novel is both a comic tour de force and a transgressive romp.

The soprano Anna Netrebko rendered this transition a comic tour de force when Otto Schenk's charming production returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Friday evening.

James Levine conducts a fresh and energetic performance starring the lustrous soprano Anna Netrebko, a comic tour de force, as Norina.

Best Leading Actor in a Play belongs to either Steven Boyer, whose schizoid performance in "Hand to God" is a comic tour-de-force, or Alex Sharp, as the spectrum-y protagonist of "The Curious Incident".

The award for best performance by a leading actress in a play is essentially a two-way race: Linda Lavin, in a comic tour-de-force in "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," versus Mary-Louise Parker, in a dramatic turn in "Proof".

(Grode) 'Grace' (in previews; opens on Oct. 4) Craig Wright has written Michael Shannon everything from comic tours de force ("Mistakes Were Made") to downbeat ensemble dramas ("Lady").

As a novelist, Russo habitually turns glaring faults of character into comic tours de force, reveling in the vanities of human nature.

Both directors and cast are clearly having a lot of fun with it; the standout turn is arguably Ralph Fiennes, who provides the latest in a string of comic tours de force as the director attempting to get sophisticated diction out of the strangulated tones of an actor called Hobie Doyle (played by Beautiful Creatures' Alden Ehrenreich), hitherto employed only as a singing cowboy.