comic drama
Example Sentences
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Shot on a handheld digital camera, the film applies an anarchic home-movie aesthetic to a superbly performed, discomfitingly comic drama of darkness within a family.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
That ease runs through his latest film, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” a tender, sharply comic drama about a fractured family trying — and often failing — to heal.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025
The celebratory season will include the 2018 adaptation of King Lear starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Shakespeare Live! from the RSC, and a semi-fictionalised comic drama on Radio 4 about the creation of the First Folio.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
“The Horror of Dolores Roach,” based on the hit podcast, is a darkly comic drama with a contemporary “Sweeney Todd” twist.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023
They had a comic drama, which constantly held up to ridicule philosophers and sophists and their vain doctrines.
From A History of Freedom of Thought by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
