Sentence examples for note of comic from inspiring English sources
And, for her part, Chancellor never quite hits the pure note of comic outrageousness.
Most of this is calmly presented, but Mr. Moore inevitably raises the ante, sounding the note of comic recklessness that is the best thing about his book.
But whether the roots of Lily's maternal despair lie in fiction or autobiography, her ferocious intransigence lends a note of comic genius to the tale.
Peggy, everyone's second-favorite precocious youngster, provided a note of comic relief, soaking Roger for $400 in cash when he needed a plan for Mohawk Airlines done over the weekend.
And the mood of the second play is perfectly caught in the scenes in Shallow's Gloucestershire orchard, which hit a note of comic realism only matched in world drama by Chekhov.
Excellent advice, in any field of endeavor, and a key to the lovely note of comic humility with which the natural-born bumptiousness of the students is tempered and soothed, and the movie prevented from coarsening into a brawl.
Even the notes of comic exaggeration are based on reality here.
Francine, who lends the film its brightest notes of comic relief, whines about how hard it is to "invent a tradition" and navely refers to her unstable husband as "my rock".
Richard's boyish enthusiasm about the weekend's agenda strikes a note of true comic pathos, and when the veneer cracks, as it does once or twice during the two days in the conference room, we see the feverish desperation underneath the good-guy exterior.
Several singers were drilled in this one-note conception of comic acting, including Julian Patrick as the iron-handed general of Santa Maria; Richard Adams as Leslie Jones, the arms merchant; Jason Ferrante as a sniveling presidential aide; and Jennifer Granville as a brothel madam with French airs.
The narrator introduces Grandpa's relatives with the note of self-conscious comic oddity endemic to a whole genre of exotic family chronicles (one goes back well before Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times," set in darkest Columbus, Ohio).
