Sentence examples for tender comedy from inspiring English sources

From the archive: A tender comedy about child abuse?

A generous, achingly tender comedy that offers some of the loopiest, most wondrously inventive humor this side of Jared Hess.

The result is a generous, achingly tender comedy that offers some of the loopiest, most wondrously inventive humor this side of Jared Hess.

A scene on the porch is a masterpiece of tender comedy, in which Henry courts the Smalls' daughter Betsy Rachel Korinee) in a detailed skein of dialogue about the weather.

Much of the poetry and tender comedy in "Dead Man" comes from Mr. Farmer's post-Tonto Nobody, winking all the while at cinema's "savage" past portrayals of American Indians.

Kiarostami wrings the most tender comedy out of such small things as the woman's refusal to address the actor, on set, as "Mr. Hossein," as she would do if he were her husband.

Quieter pleasures ruled in Ann Hui's Tao jie (A Simple Life), a tender comedy-drama about elderly people and their caregivers.

Craig Johnson's tender indie comedy, "True Adolescents," examines the interim passages of male lives when time is nervously frittered away and the future looms through the mist like a giant scary question mark.

The two shortlisted titles believed to have come closest to beating Half of a Yellow Sun are The Inheritance of Loss and the Chinese author Xiaolu Guo's tender romantic comedy A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.

Bridesmaids is a terrifically funny, smart and tender ensemble comedy starring its co-writer Kristen Wiig, and it pulls off the remarkable trick of being brutal and gentle at the same time.

What she finds there, and what she learns about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory, is the subject of Ms. Ruhl's tender-hearted comedy, which opened last night at the Second Stage Theater in a rhapsodically beautiful production directed by Les Waters.