low comedy

Example Sentences

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Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2019

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

Still, as a low comedy about crazed middle-American family life, “The Long Haul” pretty much delivers on its promise, diapers and all.

From Washington Post • May 17, 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

Plautus excels in low comedy and ridicule, Terence in drawing just characters, and maintaining them to the last.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John