Sentence examples for less comic from inspiring English sources

The effect could hardly be less comic.

Rereading Thurber, I find his mask of comedy less comic than I did years ago.

In "Middlemarch," George Eliot offers a finer-grained and less comic meditation on this theme.

Mr. Goodman's performance, Mr. Landesman said, was less comic and broad than Mr. Lane's.

The rest of the programme is less comic, but often more impressive.

Now we see his eyes, they worry and twinkle and he becomes less comic.

It is worth noting that James Belushi, as Payton's father, continues his streak of becoming progressively less funny with each comic role.

The four-part series, tucked in alongside puzzles, nature stories and less pious comic strips, turns the 80-year-old pontiff into a comic book superhero -- one who relies on faith, not magical powers, to help the needy and combat evil (in this case, Communism).

"Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical" is a less successful comic exercise in recapturing the past.

And Ramones was more or less Action comic set to music.

Mr. Jackman came across less as comic than as cabaret performer.