(a.) Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because such a possibility seems so remote as to be comic.
(2) NGOs and foundations • Comic Relief Announced new funding of £1m at the conference.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(5) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
(6) "The only thing missing for true greatness however has been that comical touch that comes each time England figure out a new way to completely discombobulate themselves as they crash out.
(7) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(10) That's in 1888; by 1890 the tone is of comic resignation (there is much comedy in these pages) as Edmond realises that he has devoted the whole of his life "to a special sort of literature: the sort that brings one trouble".
(11) He will continue to work part time for BBC radio on leadership development and take on an advisory role with Comic Relief.
(12) iPhone Shifter: Interactive Graphic Novel (Free) What was that about interesting things in the world of digital comics?
(13) Ian Livingstone is not all that keen on being photographed near the life-sized model of Lara Croft in his study – even though he was largely responsible for launching her on the world nearly 20 years ago, and the heroine of the Tomb Raider video games, comics and films helped to make his fortune.
(14) Trump’s tragic Nam story is captured in the film Apocalypse Ow.” On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the comic examined the timing of Trump’s Nordstrom tweet, noting that it came just 21 minutes after he was supposed to be in his daily intelligence briefing.
(15) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," Allen told the Guardian.
(16) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
(17) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(18) There have always been geeks and fans here, it’s just now they call it Comic-Con.
(19) Zack Snyder's comic-book reimagining, which opens in the UK and US this Friday, is being tipped for an impressive box office haul.
(20) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
Mime
Definition:
(n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
(n.) An actor in such representations.
(v. i.) To mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(3) He taught us how to mime at home with games.” When he set up his own theatre company, the family moved to La Beauce, near Orléans.
(4) These results with this novel chemotherapy program in heavily pretreated patients suggest that MIME should be studied in less extensively treated patients and considered as a part of treatment programs for patients with Hodgkin's disease in first relapse.
(5) From 1981 to 1983, 208 patients with recurrent or refractory lymphoma were treated with methylglyoxal-bis-guanylhydrazone (methyl-GAG), ifosfamide, methotrexate, etoposide (MIME).
(6) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
(7) She has said all along she won't talk about him, and when I mention his name she mimes zipping her lips.
(8) He presented cabaret in working men's clubs ("I adored those audiences, they'd always want to dance with me afterwards") and toured Europe, developing a strange hybrid of drag, mime and conventional song-and-dance.
(9) Shoot!” He cocks his thumb to his index finger and mimes a pistol firing, though it’s not impossible I imagined that.
(10) Apart from spastic, extrapyramidal and cerebellar disturbances resulting from various types of diseases of middle and old age, the individual associated movements in miming and gesture become unharmonious and stiffer with increasing age and the hyperkinesia which was hidden by combined motoricity becomes more marked.
(11) He worked in mime, and he had a real theatrical background.
(12) However, MIME is well suited for remission induction in patients intended for subsequent autologous bone-marrow transplantation.
(13) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
(14) So every once in a while it would be, 'Yeah I read that book', and Alex would do like [James mimes a victory dance]."
(15) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(16) But of all that what I found strangest was mime," Prada says.
(17) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(18) I have to mime the lost purse, show the panic, pull out the drama, and then the relief.
(19) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
(20) "If I'm miming something, be it a knife, a gun or a glass, I can't just let it disappear.