"You can't call it rock or fusion or all these comical words".
"His words are not comical, his words are not funny.
Words that might equally well have been uttered by Andreas, in his half serious, half comical discussion of God and beauty with a priest who befriends him.
But sometimes it can become too comical for words.
Hence, his use of the word "comical" to denigrate near universal scientific acceptance of the relationship between carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere and global warming, between human-induced burning of fossil fuels and climate change, is "tragic".
One month and the shuttering of a $160 million video technology acquisition later, it's close to comical reading those words again.
He has an almost-comical attachment to the word "situation," which he inserts frequently and haphazardly into sentences.
When Chiang Kai-shek wanted to thank the American people for sending aid to China during the second world war in 1941, he despatched, in his words, two "comical, black and white, furry pandas" to the Bronx zoo.
He has brought humour and light to Leicester, privately as well as publicly, occasionally mixing up his words with comical consequences and, in true Ranieri fashion, laughing at himself in the process.
Lovell shows she wasn't; more, she shows, with commendable clarity, that everything that was remarkable about Decca - that fearlessness, a clever, comical, unsentimental way with words, a very deep love of jokes and advanced social skills, though she herself wouldn't have put it quite that way - was the product of the class, family and upbringing which she tirelessly ridiculed all her life.
