"gently" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The tone of the sketch is both gently comic and wistful, as Pinter exposes some present emotional disjunction between the characters through their dialogue about their past, which they remember differently.
- It's just that the gently comic disappointment captured here doesn't justify the bitterness of the plot's satire.
- The mood of the film, which is among Mr. Boorman's most restrained and delicate works, is gently comic and, in its last act, elegiac.
- This suite in the style of Fuller also included a gently comic patriotic scene in which portraits of Washington, Lincoln and Uncle Sam magically materialized.
- Their mix of desire and reserve, measured across a clear cultural gulf, seemed gently comic and touching.
- And he also gives this film a gently comic tone that works unexpectedly well.
- The sculptured form is gently comic, like Wallace K. Harrison's 1964 control tower at La Guardia Airport, a resemblance that recalls the ambitious public works of an earlier day.
- They seek to demonstrate that their art involves more than the antics of gently comic and sweetly sad clowns in white-face makeup.
- The program treated urban life in a gently comic fashion.
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