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
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
“The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic” is a darkly comic drama about how Jaakko navigates life as a disabled man in Finland, yet his disability isn’t his defining characteristic.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023
The comic drama is often represented in both Java and Sumatra by parties of strollers consisting of 487 two men and a woman—a troop sufficient for a wide variety of plot.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
