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
Aristophanes gave us our comic drama, and only the defaults of our language made it difficult to show why the member for Cork did not more often recall Demosthenes.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James
