Sentence examples for slight comic from inspiring English sources

F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, on which the film is based, is a slight, comic fable, told with considerable ironic distance.

The conceit that Shostakovich was an avid reader of military-affairs coverage in the Times added a slight comic note to the proceedings.

The songs inhabit his self-analysis; some, like the haunting 'My Phone's on Vibrate' - 'the story of a boy, me, walking from bar to bar trying to find a go-go dancer I had spent one night with' - recall nights of desperate craving at a slight comic distance.

In "Neighbors," as in "Neighbors 2," Stoller allows situations to get out of hand; in movies that are constructed as slight comic exaggerations of ordinary practicalities, he stages big and noisy comic set pieces that are as grotesquely implausible as they are unsupported by the practical activities on which they'd depend.

Without slighting the comic possibilities, Mr. D'Arcangelo made the character genuinely affecting.

Exiene m.c.s 3 or 4 shows a night and is a bit of a stage mother, slighting certain comics while showing attention upon his protégés.

The slight stylization of his comic technique — the deadpan primed to react, the fencer's awareness of the camera, all the self-protective skills he'd acquired — worked against him when he needed to be expressive.

Greg Davies's journey to solo standup released him from the straitjacket of playing We Are Klang's exasperated authority figure, but – even though his standup is autobiographical – there's never been the slightest sense of a comic uncertain at how to represent himself on stage.

There is a slight sense now that the comic novel is somehow infra dig, but it is completely wrong to say that humorous stuff is not the real stuff … I would contend that the comic novel is the novel.

If anything, there is a slight falling off in sustained comic writing when Boot gets to Ishmaelia; plot takes over as Waugh explains how William accidentally stumbles on his scoop, and the introduction of some love interest – in the form of the Garbo-esque young German woman Kätchen – is the one mis-step in the book.

Simon Rich, at the end of a slight collection of New Yorker-type comic sketches, thanked all of 42 people.