Sentence examples for comics meaning from inspiring English sources

This issue heralded the dawn of the so-called Silver Age of comics, meaning that Marvel only just missed out on the major superhero revival of the late 1950s.

The other remained a comic's comic, meaning he'd perform in front of five people and they'd boo him off the stage.

Suzy Meyers gives Bianca some spunk, and Michael Nathanson, as Tranio, conveys a world of comic meaning with his eyebrows alone.

According to Vulture's Kyle Buchanan, Fox will bring "X-Men: Days of Future Past" to Comic-Con, meaning some of the film's cast members will be in attendance at the San Diego Convention Center on Saturday afternoon.

Like sketch comedy, "The Colored Museum" bombs as often as it kills (in the stand-up comic meanings of the words).

This seems to be just what Sternbergh wants, as suggested by his diagnosis of what went wrong with action films: "Eventually the shirtless commandos gave way to men in tights," meaning comic-book superheroes; "and from the technical end, computer animation gobbled up everything, chewing it all into weightless pixels".

Lay works the cliches of rom-comics into her artwork, meaning plenty of passionate clinches and teary close-ups.

"We need a big kid at the back," he would prod his writers, meaning a strong comic finish.

Celebrated anchor Jon Snow is in Greenland today – footage on tonight's bulletin will depict him literally on snow, and too little, I feel, will be made of this scenario's comic potential – meaning that tonight's programme will be helmed by Jackie Long and Cathy Newman, both of whom I find preparing their scripts at the centre of the office.

He admired Burroughs' use of "repeated symbols that would become laden with meaning" in Burroughs' only comic strip, "The Unspeakable Mr. Hart", which appeared in the British underground magazine Cyclops.

While the search for meaning preoccupies Watt, grotesque characters and events provide comic relief.