Sentence examples for gently comic from inspiring English sources

The film is laced with gently comic moments induced by the awkwardness of adolescence.

His encounter with these past lives is gently comic, strange, dream-like and deeply moving.

The various gently comic minor characters breathe, and the realisation of Tommy's father is wonderful.

Others are gently comic and make you want to sip gin with the author on a front porch somewhere.

This gently comic sense of ironic, bitter, and morally exhausted desperation even has its own Kafkaesque emoticon: ¯__/¯.

If you're wide awake, they have their gently comic bits too: Scilly Automatic still makes me laugh.

It gently mocks comic book conventions yet reminds us of what made comics so exciting.

This improvised gesture solved the problem of an explosive scene that seemed to dribble away, and Key carried if off with a sincerity that tipped the scale gently from comic toward tragic.

Mr. Knight's tamped-down performance — trimmed gently in comic inflections that add a small dose of humor — accentuates the qualities that Mr. Uhry did not shy from depicting in his book, and which were said to have contributed to Leo's conviction.

What we can learn from Narayan ranges from his mastery of setting (Malgudi teems with life), his gently devastating comic technique, to his ability to tackle large issues (such as India's sterilisation programme) with a light but keenly incisive touch.

After setting up acclaimed night The Book Club at the Albany in 2005, comedian Robin Ince has been at the vanguard of a new, more progressive comedy movement, centring on innovative, gently cerebral comics such as Josie Long and Chris Addison.