Sentence examples for magnificent comedy from inspiring English sources
Although it gathers ominously in mood, "The Line of Beauty" feels more blissful than baleful in its anatomy of the era because it is, among other things, a magnificent comedy of manners.
The whole comedy is characterised by a special density of broken wit: atmospherically Shakespeare's most magnificent comedy before The Tempest, Measure for Measure's cloudy and knotted luminousness has nothing in common with the verse of previous comedies.
What Mr. Katz has done is not only to design a semi-staged version of what he rightly calls "Mozart's magnificent comedy of love lost and found," but to also announce somewhat inscrutably that "we have invited the composer to introduce the characters and narrate the opera".
And kindly remember that this was the season when what may be the greatest play of the 20th century returned to Broadway for the first time in more than 50 years: "Waiting for Godot," Samuel Beckett's stark, magnificent comedy about two hobos staring down eternity in search of existential answers that never arrive.
In 1998, Todd Solondz became, briefly, US indie cinema's top dog with Happiness, his magnificent black comedy of family dysfunction.
From the very first scene, this magnificent black comedy - presented as part of the Luis Buñuel season at London's National Film Theatre - is identifiable as the work of the same genius who created Un Chien Andalou.
"The Aykroyd family is delighted by this inheritance of the Ghostbusters torch by these most magnificent women in comedy," he said in a statement.
The statement reads: "Four fiercely funny, foxy, females busting ghosts... phenomenal!" Aykroyd, who came up with the original idea for Ghostbusters, co-wrote the first two films and also starred as Raymond Stantz, described the new team of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon as "these most magnificent women in comedy".
The nonmusical comedy The Magnificent Dope (1942) had Henry Fonda as a lazy backcountry fellow who is more than a match for a scheming self-help-school operator (Don Ameche), and Coney Island (1943) was another colourful period musical starring Grable.
Details of both at timkey.co.uk Alex Horne and his magnificent band present jazz-comedy-romp The Horne Section every other Monday at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, from 31 January.
Sir John Gielgud, who was often cruel when he meant to be kind, once asked why Guinness did not do more of "those little parts you do so well".He was magnificent in Ealing film comedies such as "Kind Hearts and Coronets", and when he played neurotic officers in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Tunes of Glory".
