Sentence examples for sentimental comedy from inspiring English sources

The Fashionable Lover, another sentimental comedy, achieved success in 1772.

Sentimental comedy had its roots in early 18th century tragedy, which had a vein of morality similar to that of sentimental comedy but had loftier characters and subject matter than sentimental comedy.

The dramatists of sentimental comedy were committed to writing exemplary plays, wherein virtue would be rewarded and vice frustrated.

The caustic playwright and actor Samuel Foote used puppets to burlesque heroic tragedy in 1758 and sentimental comedy in 1773.

Mr. Rosi, in turn, gave Mr. Turturro a translation of Eduardo De Filippo's sentimental comedy "Questi Fantasmi".

Hugh Grant and Meryl Streep have some lovely chemistry in this bittersweet sentimental comedy, based on a true story.

She has appeared in films like Mike Judge's futuristic satire "Idiocracy" and Sam Mendes's sentimental comedy-drama "Away We Go" (in which she played a visibly expectant mother), and can be seen as a stressed-out parent in "Friends With Kids," a comedy written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt that is being shown at the Toronto Film Festival.

Even such sentimental comedy-dramas as Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) have been cited as "noir-ish" by critics who find in its suicidal hero and bleak depiction of small-town life a tone suitably dismal for film noir.

Sentimental comedies reflected contemporary philosophical conceptions of humans as inherently good but capable of being led astray through bad example.

Sententious and ill-constructed, with much moralizing, it is nevertheless of some historical importance as one of the first sentimental comedies.

Sentimental comedies continued to coexist with such conventional comedies as Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals (1775) until the sentimental genre waned in the early 19th century.