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
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
It is by well-motived characterization that drama passes from melodrama to story-play and so to tragedy; or, from the broadest farce or extravaganza through low comedy to high.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
