Sentence examples for lost comic from inspiring English sources

And, going back to One Man Two Guvnors, I'd say that part of its appeal is that it recalls a lost comic era.

The world has lost comic genius Robin Williams.

Ruders ordinarily thrives on gothic atmosphere — he once made a bone-chilling setting of Poe's "The City in the Sea" — but his cathedral scene feels strangely attenuated, as if he were afraid of losing comic momentum.

San Diegans have been nervous about losing Comic-Con, the sprawling convention that has been mashing together movies, comic books and related pop culture for more than 40 years, to its northern neighbors Los Angeles or Anaheim.

But he had lost his comic lightness of touch and decent parts were rare, although he relished his role as the Senator in Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance (1985).

And then, just to show he's not lost his comic timing, he adds: "And of course many of them are going to be inside a prison soon".

The issue is whether they've been wrung so thoroughly over the years that they've lost whatever comic value they possessed.

The Daily Mail's Quentin Letts declared the play's first sentence "unprintable in a family newspaper" and added that by the 50th profanity "the bad language had lost its comic novelty".

But if you know the work, you'll have mourned what has been lost – the comic subtlety, the innocence and the air of lunatic irresponsibility surrounding Wodehouse at his best.

This time we were spared a "You lie!" But once Obama segued into a rambling laundry list and the "prom night" bipartisan photo ops lost their comic novelty, the night's storyline inevitably shifted to the reliable diva antics of Michele Bachmann, the founder of the House's Tea Party Caucus.

The narrative comprises various documents related to the lost ship: comic strips, log books, even an investigative journalism account by a fictionalised Mézières and Christin.