He enjoyed telling stories, sometimes cloak-and-dagger, sometimes comical, of his search for material over more than 40 years – in pre-Glasnost Russia, in eastern Europe, and in the US.
The result of this legal impasse was a darkly comical and deeply frustrating search for Anglin, as the neo-Nazi poked at his pursuers while process servers, who deliver official notice of the lawsuit, knocked on the doors of Anglin family properties around Columbus.
When I was younger the search for this mythical creature was tedious, comical, painful, bemusing, exhausting, frustrating, confusing and disconcerting.
Coinciding ceremonies and events illustrated Russia's often painful, at times almost comical mix of symbols as it enters a third decade in search of post-Soviet identity.
They seem tentative compared with the earlier, brashly comical works, and it looks as if Mr. Schumann is searching for something that so far has eluded his grasp.
Thus, at least, the lofty tone she attempts: her sisters' pointed footnotes and her own gradually opened vein of self-searching puncture the grandiloquence, making it at once comical and touching.
Amateur and professional photographers alike participated in the world-wide search for self-portraits, yielding a selection of raw, surreal and comical photos that blow your sister's blurry iPhone creations out of the water.
In the most comical expression of the odd relationship that has developed, patients will offer me the search results they have obtained to round out my own education.
The story teaches an old lesson: It's virtually impossible to overstate the comical hypocrisy of our leaders, especially those lionized to the point of canonization by a credulous media in search of uplift.
Scholars have searched high and low through Shaw's writings and have never found him suggesting ghoti as a comical respelling of fish.
