Sentence examples for comical old from inspiring English sources

The house Alex rents, called Comfort Cottage, is hardly that: It's a rickety, comical old nightmare of a place, though not nearly as nightmarish as the nearby woods — that's where the fairies, the wee folk, live, waiting to terrify hapless travelers straying from the forest path.

Momchil Mladenov was a marvellous Don; he made the old man comical without depriving him of his dignity.

After all, a village is a petty place — filled with old grudges, comical self-importance and imagined fears.

My favorite is the Many Glacier Hotel, a darkly comical but generally comfortable old wooden monstrosity with a Swiss theme (the bellhops wear lederhosen).

The alternating chapters are poignant and comical meditations on growing old, as Dulcie and Fiscal-Smith ponder the "end of it all".

Cut loose by his appalling 'normal' parents, Barnaby floats off to meet a sequence of 'different' friends, all equally familiar with rejection (including Ethel and Marjorie, a squawky, comical but unfailingly kind old couple in a hot-air balloon).

I could read through comical taunts from my older sister and see flirty exchanges with former boyfriends.

"I'm young and have a lot of time and can sit on that question," Harry said, before casting a comical sneer at his older brother.

And it's always comical to hear about older athletes who signed with ballpoint or felt-tip pens, before they were even invented.

They take a kind interest in the mother and baby and Mary and Young James, and think that the old father is comical.

Writing about cowslips verges on the comical, as they sound so old-fashioned-countryside you might almost be writing about milkmaids, and throw in an ooh-arr or two while you're at it.