Sentence examples for macabre comedy from inspiring English sources

The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge Macabre comedy of provincial life.

Since the more macabre comedy "The Lesson" is clear-cut, at least in its emotional dynamics, this problem doesn't arise.

Enda Walsh's macabre comedy, a distaff companion piece to "The Walworth Farce," casts a weird, wonderful spell.

Returning to the stage, Mr. Frid played Jonathan Brewster — a role originated by Boris Karloff — in a 1986 Broadway revival of the macabre comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace".

Even when "Sightseers" resorts to broadly macabre comedy, Tina and Chris remain surprising and believable, their heartless actions rooted in sharply drawn feelings of inadequacy and need.

The story, "Premium Harmony," is a terse, macabre comedy of low-Maine manners set in King's favored fictional town of Castle Rock.

But Mr. Bock, the author of quirky, slightly macabre comedy-dramas like "The Receptionist" and "The Thugs," distorts convention by peopling his play with characters who don't fit standard molds and don't react to the disaster that befalls them in preordained, predictable ways.

It is a macabre black comedy whose claws embed themselves in your mind.

Patricia Ione Lloyd's macabre domestic comedy suggests that for African-Americans, every day is a potential horror movie in the making.

Other HBO shows that have been cancelled but remain popular include macabre black comedy Six Feet Under.

In a lighter, more traditional vein, Jean Becker's macabre black comedy "Un Crime au Paradis" ("A Crime in Paradise") looks at a marriage from hell between a farmer and his wife.