Sometimes they toppled in a grotesquely comic manner like human bowling balls.
She was frequently praised for her masterful depiction of ordinary lives, and for her ability to present complex and subtle subject material in a deceptively light, comic manner.
She wrote 10 novels, including The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party, three collections each of short stories and poems and several plays, plus biography and critical studies, and was frequently praised for her masterful depiction of ordinary lives and for her ability to present complex and subtle subject material in a deceptively light, comic manner.
Like the other three actors, Stephen Berger, Scott Davidson and John Treacy Egan, Mr. Leviton has a lived-in face and an old-school comic manner that puts the audience at ease.
Drawing members of various races in his crowd scenes and showing their interactions with one another, Lat portrayed Malaysians in a gentle and unbiased comic manner.
In general, these authors were inspired by Schopenhauer's sense of the world's absurdity, either regarded in a more nihilistic and gloomy manner, or regarded in a more lighthearted, absurdist and comic manner.
The latter use comes as a surprise because Auden was imitating Byron's comic manner in Don Juan, a poem written in ottava rima.
Elif Batuman's "Babel in California," the longest article in the second issue, is an inquiry into the tragic, enigmatic life of the great Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel wrapped in a comic novel of academic manners - using real names, no less - that would make Mary McCarthy proud (and also jealous).
If discussed, how could it be discussed but in a comic vein?
Mallory's idiosyncrasies make her a natural for this bizarre case, but her professional skills and belligerent manner are broadcast in a comic-book idiom so lurid it would make even Lisbeth Salander blush.
