Sentence examples for grim comedy from inspiring English sources

And there's also "The Butcher Boy" (1997), a grim comedy about an exceptionally angry, violent Irish lad.

And instead of stream-of-consciousness Surrealist literature, it is the grim comedy of Kafka's fiction that appeals to her.

He labors to bring science fiction, grim comedy and social satire into his story of a haunted misfit.

In his sporadically funny, blood-splattered comedy "Seven Psychopaths," the playwright turned movie director Martin McDonagh looks to turn writer's block into grim comedy.

In May 2008, in a surprising change of pace, she appeared in a production of "Endgame," Samuel Beckett's grim comedy about mortality, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Jonathan Wolken's "Memento Mori" is a ghastly effort at a different kind of symbiosis: the grim comedy of loveless male-female partnership or marriage.

Grim Fandango is a dark comedy neo-noir adventure game released by LucasArts in 1998 for Windows, with Tim Schafer as the game's project leader.

Pearson gives us grim human behaviour aplenty, but offsets it with toe-curlingly black comedy and an air of heightened weirdness.

It could have been grim reading, but Emma Healey has a gift for the kind of dark comedy that can shine through any predicament.

Despite the Hollywood-style theatrics and the grim surroundings, the interrogation was less police state or 1984-style nighthane than a Brazil-like dark comedy.

Despite the Hollywood-style theatrics and the grim surroundings, the interrogation-style was less police state or 1984-style nighthane than a Brazil-like dark comedy.