Sentence examples for funny depictions from inspiring English sources

In 1978, the series was published as a novel, "Tales of the City," and was embraced by readers for its frank and funny depictions of contemporary San Francisco.

In Laurie Thompson's deft translation, the novel is shot through with vivid and often funny depictions of daily life in an exotic corner of the world.

The Stars in the Bright Sky can scum you out, surprise with lyrical description, and feel like a dizzying stint on the Ezzy Dancer in the airport's amusement arcade, but its compassionate and funny depiction of the bonds of friendship is memorably bittersweet enough to make you care about the girls, and worry about baby Sean's future.

The Radlett girls, growing up in a windy manse, being hunted by their father on horseback, and dreaming of love and escape, are lightly fictionalised versions of the Mitford sisters, and Nancy's famous 1945 novel is one of the funniest depictions of childhood and young adulthood ever written.

He steals every scene in which he appears with his scary-funny depiction of the entertainer as sociopath who would as soon murder you as make you laugh.

That was a big inspiration and it strikes the chord of (a) funny, blatant depiction of comedy and childhood nostalgia.

He said it was "a funny, realistic depiction of what a kid like Bart might wind up to become, and it wasn't something you would immediately think of".

The novel is full of wondrous things — several genial character portraits, funny and exact depictions of West Berlin (bars, hippie communes, radical tyranny, bourgeois bohemianism), beautiful evocations of Chicago ("I could feel Lake Michigan. You could feel all of the Great Lakes and their conspiracies of ice crystals and surface winds").

On the English side, Justin Cartwright's Other People's Money (Bloomsbury) was a funny and subtle depiction of banking ethics just when it was needed.

That movie was a funny and sad depiction of Italian immigrants only one generation ago, when Southern Europe could seem as poor, backward and needy as Africa or parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East do today.

But it is, of course, a very funny and eccentric depiction of the society of the north-eastern United States of the time – something that that bothered the people of Boston of the 1880s for its indecency.