Sentence examples for note of comedy from inspiring English sources

'A trip down memory lane.' " 'Memory Lane... is that south of the river?' " Yet the note of comedy is rare.

Coogan said it was important to inject a note of comedy into the harrowing story – "you need some relief from it … to sugar the pill" – but not to go too far.

(The denials made by the C.I.A. and Blackwater — which, in the single note of comedy in this story, has changed its name to Xe — on that point are not quite categorical).

There is also a note of comedy in the competition among the knights, with their nasty little treacheries, and with the lesser soldiers running back and forth between tents to figure out who's on top and therefore whom they should ally themselves with today.

Caron, who created "Moonlighting" and the 1999 series "Now and Again," knows how to blend genres, and he must have realized that he needed to add some top notes of comedy to the perfume of self-seriousness that seems to cling to all those who are paranormally inclined.

I believe him, but just as Frau Hens's image is shaded, and thereby rescued from sentimentality, by suggestions of her shortcomings as a mother, so the father is spared a horror-movie monstrousness by what — you can't believe it at first — are tinkling little notes of comedy.

At this point, if not before, a note of black comedy creeps into Kavanagh's story.

All this eventually emerges in Eyre's production, which starts with a lot of peasanty overacting but which eventually achieves the right note of rueful comedy.

But for sheer entertainment, Adam Sandler's uproarious off-color parody of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" injects the film with an inspired note of raucous comedy that undercuts any pretensions to solemnity.

The only note of unintentional comedy that year came during a judicial hearing in Lille, when the judge put it to him that "you must have known what was going on because you were the leader".

Wood was later the subject of a 1994 biopic that took his name as its title, starring Johnny Depp and among the best work of its director Tim Burton – who struck a note of rompish comedy spliced with something wistful.