And he was part of a triangle that included the historian Robert Conquest and the poet Philip Larkin; for that one undeniably great English poet of the past half century, he was the source of a comic style, or at least an attitude, not to mention the nearest thing he ever had to a friend.
Having previously identified rap, baggy trousers, heavy metal, marijuana, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, miniskirts, gangster movies, soccer, feminism, race-mixing and comic books as the source of all evil, America's conservative intellectuals have now discovered the real reason for the decline of western civilisation – denim.
Voters are the source of all wisdom.
"They were the source of all knowledge.
It's the source of all life.
The very source of Allen's comedy — his ability to compartmentalize anxiety and to escape his sense of absence by turning it into fun — is what he came up against in the brouhaha: his detachment, so often the source of his comic glory, became his grief.
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Twenty years ago, the extreme strategic positions were all the source of comic amusement to the sagacious basketball lifer.
Never mind that Mohamed Abduba Dida, was the source of comic relief in the presidential election campaign with such profound utterances like "you should only eat when you're hungry".
Often he doesn't realize the sources of his comic inventions until after the fact.
