7 sentences with 'comedy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word comedy and other words derived from it.
• « But in 1953 the director of a London musical comedy, The Boy Friend, soon to open in New York, saw her perform in a pantomime at London's Hippodrome Theatre, and offered her a part. »
• « Greek comedy, however, is meant to inspire mockery and gleeful contempt for the failings of others, rather than sympathy. »
• « Greek drama, both tragedy and comedy, is of enormous historical importance because even when it used the gods as characters or fate as an explanation for problems, it put human beings front and centre as being responsible for their own mistakes. It depicted human choice as the centrepiece of life in a context of often uncontrollable circumstances. »
• « Ultimately, his work became so famous that it established Tuscan as the basis of what would eventually become the language of "Italian" - all the educated people of Italy would come to read comedy as a matter of course and it came to serve as the founding document of the modern Italian language in the process. »
• « In particular, I questioned the fact that many critics had described the film as a black comedy, without giving potential viewers a more accurate indication of the vivid scenes of brutality they would witness. »