Sentence examples for nearly comic from inspiring English sources

It was nearly comic to witness such svelte confidence in a footballer who had been so inept at the beginning of the evening.

The dialogue is nearly comic in its banality: "Good afternoon, Sidney, Veraa greets him when the bolts are drawn back and the key turned in the deadlock.

Of course, the legend is that the first marathoner died from exhaustion after he'd run from the town of Marathon to Athens, an ancient fact that seemed nearly comic until yesterday changed it permanently.

The aesthetician in me doesn't quite like all the clashing styles – a diver chrono with baroque hands and a deeply guilloched face with the nearly Comic Sans Christopher Ward logo stuffed in the corner.

With the soothing scents of Thanksgiving nearly here, Comic Riffs pauses to reflect on the comics comfort food that has sustained us all year.

Then, just before the end, a video was shown, celebrating Star Wars being at nearly every Comic Con, and the Star Wars main theme was played just as fireworks shot out.

There's a small, nearly perfect comic moment not far into Michael Holroyd's new book, "A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers," when this esteemed biographer, now in his 70s, describes being locked in a car on a research trip with a woman who drives through Italy as if she's just robbed a bank and is being chased by carabinieri.

Condemning their relationship as "homosexual," Wertham sparked a backlash that nearly put comics out of business.

Like nearly all comics artists of the day, he worked for hire.

March 28 , 1914Brno, Czechoslovakia February 3 , 1997Prague, Czech Republic Bohumil Hrabal, (born March 28 , 1914 Brno, Czech. died Feb. 3, 1997, Prague) Czech author of comic, nearly surreal tales about poor workers, eccentrics, failures, and nonconformists.

He had to throw away nearly everything that comic actors use to get laughs.