Sentence examples for manic cartoon from inspiring English sources
It plays like a manic cartoon.
His mostly instrumental music goes genre-hopping -- reggae, garage-rock, manic cartoon jazz, circus tootling, toy-piano ditties -- as if communing with his instruments' ancestral memories.
His manic-cartoon Magic Flute at the Edinburgh festival, with theatre company 1927, was headache-inducing but mesmerising.
The combination of words and drawings turned out to be a powerful medium for exploring manic depression, with cartoons representing the emotional extremes which words seldom seem to do justice to.
Put this elevated, high speed super-reality together with the controlled, manic animation of a cartoon character, then step forth into life's ordinary hustle and bustle.
Like his friends from the mystique-loving London collective PC Music, Sophie's output features pitched-up vocals that pay lip service to unreconstructed girliness (topics include boys and shopping), noises so manic and maximalist they resemble cartoon sound effects, and a spasmodic, clanging rhythm that brings to mind the sound made by a crashing computer program.
Television critic Todd VanDerWerff The A.V. Club once remarked that it 'usually adopts the manic pacing of a live-action cartoon.' The show was influential in its extensive use of smash cuts: sudden, short cuts to unrelated scenes showing something the characters are briefly discussing.
Sly visual allusions to "The Wizard of Oz" pop up in such disparate works as "Hudsucker" and "O Brother," while slapstick techniques lifted from the Keystone Kops and Chuck Jones cartoons help fuel the manic comedy of "Raising Arizona".
The show landed in the middle of the decade's cartoon renaissance, and remains a manic example of the subversive politics and aesthetics of a generation of children's programming that seemed to rage itself out of existence.
Like any classic cartoon character, Mike is a textbook case of manic depression.
A veteran of the early 80's East Village scene, Mr. Prol presents a series of big, expressionistic cartoon paintings of a lone man in a black suit having a manic fit of some sort.
