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
What connects the novels and the stories is Barry’s style, a nervy mix of high poetry and low comedy that he applies with unceasing vigor.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2021
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
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
In these pieces we discover the first traces of that genius for low comedy which was afterwards to take perfect form in the dramas of Breder�o and the paintings of Teniers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
