Sentence examples for strains of comedy from inspiring English sources

There are certainly strains of comedy in Adrian's darkness.

Indeed, early reports suggested little more than a steaming gumbo of the gross and the embarrassing two strains of comedy that have scored well everywhere, in recent years, and that leave me sadly unmoved.

Indeed, early reports suggested little more than a steaming gumbo of the gross and the embarrassing — two strains of comedy that have scored well everywhere, in recent years, and that leave me sadly unmoved.

A darker strain of comedy comes into play after Boy finds himself in Guantánamo.

It's a bleak book, with an accumulation of unpleasant physical detail and a strain of comedy and affection — Down and Out in Tampa and Lehigh Acres.

Still, it is heartening to see a writer as good as Coe trying to bring a once-rich strain of comedy back into contemporary fiction.

'I've been listening to Henry Cow since 1974 and I'm still not tired.' As befits a man whose strain of comedy fights shy of conventional categories, Reeves likes difficult music.

The collaboration that turned the "Ullman" shorts into "The Simpsons" -- one involving Groening, Brooks, Sam Simon, a small group of writers including George Meyer and Jon Vitti, not to mention animators like David Silverman -- entwined the cartoonist's worldview with at least two distinct strains of television comedy.

However, the decision is in line with a general TV policy of suppressing a certain strain of racial comedy from the 1970s.

Mr. Swarup's second novel, "Six Suspects," is a Bollywood version of the board game Clue with a strain of screwball comedy thrown in.

The protagonist's conclusive act of devotion has a rare, symphonic exaltation; a theatrical decrescendo that reunites the characters with a strain of bluff comedy raises the stuff of daily life to luminous glory.