comic

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The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor—forever cursed by a reputation as a great but underrated writer—frames Mrs. Palfrey’s struggle to endure the humiliations of old age as both tragic and comic.

From The Wall Street Journal

I used to love Marvel comics as a kid.

From Los Angeles Times

So he decides to keep appearing in clubs to tell tales of his relationship woes, lacing the commentary with rueful remarks that are vaguely comic, though nothing he says is actually funny.

From The Wall Street Journal

For many years American Jewish writing seemed to be all about sons—sons launched from Chicago, Brooklyn and the Bronx, sons of overprotective mothers, comics punning on “the son also rises.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In “One Battle After Another,” his darkly comic action-thriller, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a former revolutionary who has spent years in hiding, raising his teenage daughter and trying to keep his past at bay.

From Los Angeles Times