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

Gaiman views much of their behavior as essentially low comedy:

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 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

In low comedy where shall we find a competitor to Jefferson?

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)