Sentence examples for melancholy comedy from inspiring English sources

Parini captures the melancholy comedy of it all, but also Tolstoy's big-heartedness and essential seriousness.

All values are religious values in this melancholy comedy about Texas politics.

The people in "From Above," Tom Donaghy's melancholy comedy at Playwrights Horizons, never appear as fully three-dimensional as they do when they're seen in two dimensions.

It all creates the kind of gentle melancholy comedy after which you leave the cinema not sure quite how depressed you are supposed to be feeling.

In this melancholy comedy, set at a week-long silent retreat, a group of spiritual seekers learn how to communicate when words are not available.

He sets his melancholy comedy from 1992, now making its U.S. première as part of "Brits Off Broadway," in perhaps the world's only Esperanto restaurant, a perplexing bistro serving delicacies such as trickletasse, vissviss, and crimpledoos.

We mingle tears and laughter in our response to Shakespeare's sublimely melancholy comedies.

That's a more complicated matter in this melancholy romantic comedy.

(Brantley)20100902 - 'A Little Night Music'Bernadette Peters's sublime rendition of "Send In the Clowns" and Elaine Stritch's deliciously astringent Madame Armfeldt inject a thrilling new energy into Trevor Nunn's sometimes galumphing production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's melancholy musical comedy.

The diminishment of the middle class is the great subject of this oddball series, a melancholy hour-long comedy that tries to be philosophical about feeling gloomy.

A brilliant mixture of comedy, melancholy, nostalgia and intelligent romance, this is a must read for anyone at a loose end this summer.