With down-to-earth comic instincts, it simply invests its story with a loud ring of truth.

He was Byronic, with a very good comic instinct.

Moorcock's comic instincts show through, sometimes darkly, in many of his works; here, he gives them free rein.

They all have that golden comic instinct, associated with improv, for using one or two exaggerated traits to evoke an entire personality.

This is a film that perversely refuses to trust its own comic instincts.

He was born with pure comic instinct.

Sari Gruber was an engaging Susanna with fine comic instincts.

His blondness here is nothing short of a revelation, and he shows, perhaps for the first time, some real comic instinct.

Most of them were brief character roles that demand the good comic instincts for which Mr. Carelli was known.

If Ms. Carter's comic instincts were as keen as ever, her voice was in poor shape.