Sentence examples for lyrical comedy from inspiring English sources

Don Pasquale is a brilliant, lyrical comedy about a curmudgeonly 70-year-old.

| When Puccini's "lyrical comedy," "La Rondine" (which, in its light touch, sometimes approaches the world of operetta), was given its U.S. première at the Met, in 1928, the cast was headed by the incomparable Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA When Puccini's "lyrical comedy," "La Rondine" (which, in its light touch, sometimes approaches the world of operetta), was given its U.S. première at the Met, in 1928, the cast was headed by the incomparable Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli.

OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA When Puccini's "lyrical comedy," "La Rondine" (which, in its light touch, sometimes approaches the world of operetta), was given its U.S. première at the Met, in 1928, the cast was headed by the incomparable Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli.

Interrupting the circulation of that poison as it flows from generation to generation became one of his key subjects, as in "Small Change," from 1976, a lyrical comedy about children that has as its crucial moral presence a teacher (played by Jean-François Stévenin) whose sensitive attention to his students is a response to his own rough childhood.

As an unidentified playwright describes his work as "a lyrical comedy about life on a collective farm," the movie's bleak, frosty landscapes and hungry, callused workers suggest that finding something to laugh about was a great deal easier in fiction than in reality.

I have never seen Bertrand Blier's raucous, lyrical road comedy "Going Places" without noticing at least one audience member stalking out in disgust.

One of the strangest and strongest of recent romantic triangles forms in the course of this lyrical, fanatically realistic comedy, written and directed by Andrew Bujalski.

There has been a lot of buzz about Liam Williams (Just The Tonic at the Tron, to Sunday, ***), one-third of sketch group Sheeps, making his solo debut with an hour of "lyrical anti-lad" comedy.

With his masterly use of visual motifs — the train and the fog of the opening sequence reappear periodically with increasing significance — and slow, contemplative rhythms, he gives the comedy a lyrical dimension, building to a final sense of moral devastation.

Mr. Grishkovets is a one-man theater from Kaliningrad who writes, directs, designs and performs his own lyrical but wickedly barbed comedies.