Sentence examples for element of comic from inspiring English sources
Rendell develops her many characters with such cunning that an element of comic suspense is created around the question of which of them will crack up first.
But always with this strange element of comic deflection: a sense that at least some of the fable of Ghost Dog is tongue-in-cheek.
While the modern hack-a-Shaq hasn't led to any scenes quite as ridiculous as a Chamberlin chase around the court, it has brought an element of comic theatre to the game.
But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief — of the black-humor variety — in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.
He is also a prisoner of his pants: his perplexed attempts to get in and out of his hakama, a multipaneled sort of Japanese culotte, provide the movie with an element of comic relief.
He eliminated the musical interludes altogether and expanded the elements of comic intrigue until his plays had become genuine comedies.
And even though he continued to incorporate elements of comic imagery into his work for the rest of his career, the source imagery is increasingly transformed.
This idiosyncratic English artist blends elements of comic books, illustration and graphic design into the fictive Bureau for the Investigation of Subliminal Imagery.
Miss Piggy is his wife, and two Piggy-like daughters are among the many elements of comic relief, but the harrowing parts of the Dickens tale have not been airbrushed out: ghosts and graves and gloom are fully represented.
The specter of 9/11 — never completely submerged but sometimes obscured by the show's elements of comic soap opera — is in the foreground again, as another crew member begins to espouse the theory that the attacks were orchestrated by neoconservative nut cases bent on American global domination.
