"comedy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Kharms' stories are typically brief vignettes (see also short prose and feuilleton) often only a few paragraphs long, in which scenes of poverty and deprivation alternate with fantastic, dreamlike occurrences and acerbic comedy.
- Beneath this wool-gathering is an acerbic comedy of a special sort.
- He is commonly known for his energetic stage personality, his dark, acerbic black comedy, and his gruff but high-pitched voice.
- Network television hasn't been kind to acerbic comedies lately, from "Action" to "Sports Night," and at times the producers' jitters come through here.
- Excerpts during this hour from a lecture that Ms. Mitford gave at the University of California at Berkeley a few years ago display her gift for acerbic comedy.
- Everybody wants something from Sandy Bates in Woody Allen's acerbic Felliniesque comedy.
- Ruth Hussey, Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland were cast in the acerbic comedy The Women.
- The film comes to resemble acerbic black comedies from the 90's like "The Player" or "Swimming With Sharks," movies that focus on Hollywood as a lethal place.
- "Speed-the-Plow," David Mamet's acerbic comedy about the mores of Hollywood, opened at the National Theater Wednesday night to mixed reviews from London's theater critics.
- Janet Maslin in The New York Times called it a "gleefully acerbic comedy."
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