Sentence examples for the comedy of things from inspiring English sources

It was the comedy of things past.

When they gaze up at us, half aware of our idiocies, and half puzzled, the comedy of things is never far from the surface, whether we think of Lord Emsworth scratching the back of his prize sow, the Empress of Blandings, or whether we think of Lord Emsworth's creator himself, the masterly P G Wodehouse, in thrall to his Pekingese.

I was a fancy citified woman now, and so my life could have properly sized disasters, ones in the comedy-of-manners way of things, rather than in the losing-a-limb-to-a-tractor-blade way of things; that was another thought.

Rumor is the show is more on the comedy side of things to play to the strengths of Odenkirk's acting chops.

I took a while to cycle over to the comedy side of things.

On the comedy side of things, what CBS lacks in casting star power, they make up for with solid material.

Try to see the comedy side of things.

Even better than this is when the interlocutor knows what you're talking about, but considers this thing – the comedy of Chris Morris, say, or the films of Richard Linklater – to be the most sparkling of forgotten treasures, a secret only they know about.

ONE of the reassuring things about "The Comedy of Errors," revived once more at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival after a mere eight years, is that you are not expected to understand anything about it.

I do so love the comedy of discomfort -- you know, the kind of thing that pokes us where we're tender, has the nerve to call attention to it, and then makes us laugh at our sensitivity.

On the comedy side of the things, the night's biggest winner was Modern Family, which recieved the outstanding comedy series prize, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) and Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory) picked up the acting gongs.