Sentence examples for faintly comical from inspiring English sources

The incident is revolting and faintly comical and is the most meaningful moment of human contact described in the book.

We wander in a forest of other people's fictions and ideas, often guided by little more than some faintly comical historical generalities.

Hyundai calls the Tucson's design "fluidic sculpture," a term that joins "flame surfacing" and "L-finesse" in the faintly comical lexicon of people who wear black turtlenecks and write bleak poetry about herring.

They may dress up in a puppet mask and enact a repeated dumb show, with three faintly comical looking assassins, lasting around six seconds, as in the Royal Opera's new staging.

I Wanna Be Your Dog, by Daker & Grinser (Disko B, 1999) The Stooges' finest three minutes, remade with the aid of bowel-churning synthesizers and faintly comical German accents.

Despite this, while still in their teens, they were writing modern-day standards, big ballads that got covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Al Green: To Love Somebody alone has been covered by such a vast and peculiar array of artists the list seems faintly comical.

These enhance a comical mood faintly evocative of early Mirós.

The name of Aimee Semple McPherson resonates faintly now — a rather comical run of syllables compounded of a first name bestowed by a rapt young mother, Minnie Kennedy, in an Ontario farmhouse in 1890, and the last names of Aimee's first two husbands, Robert Semple and Harold McPherson.

They'd seen that big hit about ancient-Greek guys making a last stand against… The name of Aimee Semple McPherson resonates faintly now — a rather comical run of syllables compounded of a first name bestowed by a rapt young mother,… Television swept across American society as rapidly as the Internet is sweeping across it now — and with even greater immediate effects.

Amid the shots of Prince onstage or looking about awesomely cool at various points during the past 30 years, there are reposts of faintly clumsy photomontages of Prince, clearly put together by fans and of those meme-ready images with comical text attached which feature Prince - or David Chappelle dressed as Prince.

Prof. Richard Dawkins smiles faintly.