Sentence examples for slight comedy from inspiring English sources

Wahlberg's first movie role was a small part in the slight comedy Renaissance Man (1994).

(Brantley) 'NONE OF THE AnOVE' An uneven revival of a slight comedy that wants to be taken seriously.

"Teeth" is a slight comedy about a dentist whose patient, the husband of his receptionist, has a supposedly secret relationship with the dentist's wife.

The play now takes place in "the present," but it still feels behind the times, a slight comedy that wants to be taken seriously.

Colbert had been initially reluctant to appear in the slight comedy, but her sparkling performance as a runaway heiress became her most famous and won her an Academy Award.

(Jason Zinoman) 'HEROES' A slight comedy, translated from the French by Tom Stoppard, about three World War I veterans facing the advancing senility and decrepitude of old age in an old soldiers' home.

As Felix (Sami Bouajila), a freewheeling gay dockworker of Arab descent, tries to find his father in "Adventures of Felix," a slight comedy-drama, he wanders into a whole new family.

Jonson's writing contains a measure of quotable lines — "Drink to me only with thine eyes" is his — but because his sharpest gift was for savage satire, his plays lack the universal appeal of even Shakespeare's slightest comedies.

Yet such a position is a slight to comedy.

NEW BRUNSWICK George Street Playhouse "One Slight Hitch," comedy by Lewis Black.

One was "Pane e Tupilani" ("Bread and Tulips"), a slight romantic comedy directed by Silvio Soldini about a housewife who goes to Venice on a lark to escape her dreary life in Pescara.