Sentence examples for once comic from inspiring English sources
The intensity of Madero's responses, to literature and to life, is at once comic and poignant.
His disaffection is traced with a beadiness that's at once comic and deeply painful.
He pit the retinal against the physical and pushed the modernist monochrome toward representation with results at once comic and subtly elegiac.
"May God have mercy on her soul," says Bridget, shifting gear smoothly into cooing piety - a superb moment, at once comic and chilling.
The set is minimal: the excellent actors and Mr. Creedon's words are enough to create a world that is at once comic and dramatic, poetic and brutal.
Her attempts to smooth over their differences by mastering the language of fruit (Carl often started conversations, "I am going to give you a quiz") are at once comic and tinged with regret.
The play manages to be at once lightly comic and oddly terrifying: YOUNG MAN: Uh... ma'am; I.
The best one by far, however, is a genuine one-off, at once dryly comic and dramatically rapturous.
The play manages to be at once lightly comic and oddly terrifying: YOUNG MAN: Uh... ma'am; I..
This is familiar Patrick McCabe territory, at once darkly comic and indefinably sinister, with a demented, hallucinatory narrator and an addled plot that teasingly reveals its allegorical crises, veiled desires and cultural confusions.
Magazines like Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post and Look that ran cartoon panels have folded along with many of the newsstands, five-and-dimes and candy shops that once stocked comic books.
