Sentence examples for comic variation from inspiring English sources
Paul Schrader directed, in what amounts to a blackly comic variation on his 1997 "Affliction".
A lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, Columbo was a comic variation on the traditional fictional detective.
But the books, which focus on a family named Melrose, are now widely admired for their forensic and comic variation on the theme of trauma and imperfect recovery.
To complete a circle the film ends with a comic variation on the final lines of John Ford's The Searchers about returning home after the completion of a journey.
A deeply divided soul, part child and part cynical show-business pro, Mr. Lewis began dramatizing his split personality well before "The Nutty Professor," a comic variation on "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," made the metaphor explicit.
One, played by the amusing Silas Weir Mitchell, is a rehabbing blutbad who has sworn off human food, a comic variation on the noble vampires in "True Blood" and "The Vampire Diaries".
Skinner tries out comic variations, switching accents, bits of physical comedy.
In Christopher Wheeldon's equally new but comic "Variations Sérieuses," the set simulates a backstage area and a stage on which dancers perform at a diagonal.
In the comic variations, Stephen Hanna made the double bass a jumping jack; Antonio Carmena and Kurt Froman were swashbuckling duelists as trumpets; Andrew Robertson, Darius Crenshaw, Henry Seth and Jonathan Stafford performed pompous military drills as tuba and trombones; and Tom Gold, Sébastien Marcovici and Benjamin Millepied capered like deadpan comedians to percussion music.
Longtime partners onstage and off, Parker and Kazin borrow from the American Songbook to offer their own sweet and comic variations on the classic American tale of the gay boy who finds salvation in musicals.
The first lines of Gravity's Rainbow mirror the first lines of first elegy, portraying the screaming descent of a V-2 rocket in 1944 London, and the novel has been described as a "serio-comic variation on Rilke's Duino Elegies and their German Romantic echoes in Nazi culture".
