low comedy
Example Sentences
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Sounds sad, but the show blends high and low comedy with weighty themes and melancholic moments.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025
But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2019
Through its narrow canon, the tone of “Star Wars” has always been determinedly self-serious, whereas the Marvel movies, like the decades of comics they sprang from, veer wildly from high drama to low comedy.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017
Despite the borderline low comedy of the outhouse dialogue, Friedenberg is more alert to the couple’s mutual regard.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2016
His face and person are well adapted to a certain class of low comedy; his voice still more so.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
