Sentence examples for is sometimes comic from inspiring English sources

Desmond's own deafness is sometimes comic, sometimes inconvenient, sometimes embarrassing.

The effect is sometimes comic, but with a complex, outraged commitment far beyond parody.

The result was sometimes comic.

In books, movies, and television, intelligence agents were portrayed in roles that were sometimes comic but often deadly serious.

The forging and unraveling of alliances — and the periodic eruption of battles that are sometimes comic, sometimes lethal — give "A Brighter Summer Day" its intrigue and momentum.

The situations in which they find themselves are sometimes comic, but never farcical like Mozart in the Da Ponte operas, Handel avoids laughing at his characters.

Walter Lee's younger sister, Beneatha (Edena Hines), is sometimes treated as comic relief, but she is a harbinger of the future in positive ways.

Not because I admire Tristram Shandy; although I am what is sometimes called a comic novelist I never did find Tristram Shandy anything but as 'trifling' as Leavis found it, ditto the tradition of laborious jocosity it continues to spawn.

Visually, he is sometimes rendered with a familiar comic book realism, while at others he's squashed down like some oblivious figure from the Sunday funnies.

To say any more is unnecessary, other than to remark that Levin's comic sense is sometimes overlooked and that this is a work meant for the theatre.

Yet behind a comic sensibility that is sometimes provocative and sometimes puerile, Mr. MacFarlane is a committed fan of the first "Cosmos" who laments a modern society that he says has lost its fascination with science.