Sentence examples for heroic comedy from inspiring English sources

"The Triumph of Love" has been called a heroic comedy.

For a representation of the heroic comedy of growing old, Birthday (2001) cannot be bettered.

The word "panache" was adopted into English only after the phenomenal success of the French playwright Edmond Rostand's 1897 "heroic comedy" "Cyrano de Bergerac," whose flamboyant, big-nosed hero took revenge on his ugliness by making a legend of his physical and intellectual prowess.

"Kiratham," the myth performed on Tuesday, was, though heroic, a comedy.

Grimani's libretto, considered one of the best that Handel set, is an "anti-heroic satirical comedy", full of topical political allusions.

Spanning a variety of characteristic genres, including horror, heroic bloodshed, romantic comedy, and kung-fu, reviews cover individual titles in considerable depth and are accompanied by a selection of full-color film stills.

Her novels turned into heroic but bitter comedies of rural England under pressure.

The steady swirl of traffic around the Cinema Arts Center gave me an idea for a quintessential American road movie relocated to Long Island, with elements of comedy, tragedy, heroic epic, love story, thriller, mystery and (when the hero crosses into Nassau County) the western.

Then a tiny piece of grotesquery, a drawing called Brewing Witches; a grotesque piece of musical comedy called The Heroic Tenor as a Concert Singer, and then three watercolours that seem to be part of a different pattern of thought, closely resembling each other.

The caustic playwright and actor Samuel Foote used puppets to burlesque heroic tragedy in 1758 and sentimental comedy in 1773.

Sorkin's show was a drama (or really, a temper tantrum) about two male comedy writers portrayed as heroic geniuses.