Sentence examples for comical like from inspiring English sources

The effect was comical, like a flying dentists' convention.

But they seem more comical, like parodies of Rococo mirrors, than tragic.

At first the idea of a rock band in therapy sounds unlikely, if not downright comical, like "This Is Spinal Tap" with a screenplay by Janet Malcolm.

"What the hell — do you talk to a painter about what kind of paint he's using?" he bellowed, sounding both menacing and comical, like Warren Oates doing a Walter Brennan impression.

Here is a film of granite, monolithic intensity; a superhero romp so serious that it borders on the comical, like a children's fancy-dress party scripted by Victor Hugo and scored by Wagner.

Nor have I included anything mostly comical, like Dustin Hoffman catching Anne Bancroft on the inhale in "The Graduate" or, fond as I am of Brad Dourif smooching his creation through bulletproof glass in "Alien Resurrection," any variety of interspecies foreplay.

There are people who are comical and like to tell jokes, by their very nature.

The only unattractive angle is directly from the side, where the car's tiny 12-inch wheels and round shape give it slightly comical, turtle-like profile.

But the flamboyant form is unmistakably Gehry, with an almost comical, cartoon-like façade peeping over the rectilinear buildings beside it, mocking their square-ness in the process.

We walked through the gentle uplands through clumps of red aloe and acacia trees, past camels and dwarf cattle and vast herds of goats, some wearing comical apron-like cloth condoms.

A combination of "dune surfing," sliding and just plain stumbling had us back to the base in less than five minutes, our feet giving off comical, seal-like squeaks as they rubbed against the sand.