The narcissistic involvement with the self and the inability to connect with others are lovingly portrayed in comically caricatured extremes. |
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Lesser actors would have come off as comically ineffectual or abrasive and unlikable, but Howard nails the performance. |
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The teacher rapped on the chalkboard with a yardstick, making some of the kids fall out of their desk comically. |
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His shirt is comically baggy on him and he's absorbed in an experiment to see if his head will fit inside the long, floppy sleeves. |
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Rather comically, he immediately turns to criticise Bogeland on the poor quality of his inch-perfect 50 yard pass. |
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It's an almost comically absurd exploration of where humans are morally and spiritually positioned at this moment. |
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Brian told the secretary, a comically spinsterish woman with a bun and glasses, that they were there for Mr. Mallard. |
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The other was comically fat, with folds of dead yellow skin hanging in a halo around his massive neck. |
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He charged down the soft dry sand until he was right beside the statuesque girl and puffed out his chest comically. |
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There is a comically mountainous platter of onion rings, which are more about crunchy batter than sweet, juicy onions. |
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This episode, set on Valentine's Day, brings the couples back together with comically disastrous results. |
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In the happy crush of mail entries to this contest, we received lots and lots of movies comically altered by anagrammatization. |
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There's no shortage of comically inclined filmmakers for whom ethnicity plays a major role in their creativity. |
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The supporting cast could include a sympathetic bartender, a hapless purser, a coked up cruise director, and a comically lecherous ship's doctor. |
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I pick my moment and bolt from the brush, hustling across in a comically suspicious trot. |
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If her girls have been compared to prepubescent Lolitas, her seniors seem just as coy, if comically spry. |
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Here the narrator creates a logical chain that is not only grammatically excessive but comically overexact. |
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She remains comically naive even when she is put in a straightjacket and has her hair shorn. |
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The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage. |
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Elvis was an uneducated, backwoods boy with a big, big voice and comically bad taste. |
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She is forever organizing escape attempts, each one more comically ingenious than the last. |
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Almost comically, she began to see if her grandmothers tea set was still all there. |
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On a recent train journey a nearby couple had a comically tumultuous and very public break-up, which she duly live-tweeted in all its glory. |
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DeVito revels in being comically conniving, and he is again convincing. |
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It tells the story of his religious education from comically pious child, to doubting teen, to trainee yogi in India, to sceptical religious affairs correspondent. |
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This was easy meat — almost comically easy, after the trials posed by its surrounding foliage. |
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He casts the rubber-faced, bandy-legged Guy Henry as the comically ineffectual king. |
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But they're those comically lardy simpletons in sports clothes who require two aeroplane seats each. |
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It may rouse itself to stretch a leg or wing at intervals, occasionally comically waggling a foot. |
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The ferry chugged across the river, passing boats that were even more comically overloaded than ours. |
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Discover once again Quebec's greatest storyteller in this comically refreshing show! |
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Quickly let down, she defiantly plucks coins from the Fontana de Amore, magically igniting the passions of some comically unsuitable suitors. |
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They encounter a little ugly man who is understandably furious at the invasion of his property by these two strangers and vociferates horrific but comically impotent threats. |
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Both men careen dangerously and comically toward midlife crises. |
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And keep in mind that even pre-ISIS, an Iraqi comedian was killed in 2006 for comically mocking those in power. |
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High modernist author Georges Perec, for instance, comically suggested that there are exactly 243 writerly possibilities for the postcard message. |
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Davis signed off on comically generous pensions for government workers. |
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Surfer was the comically subversive tale of a group of ski bums visited by a mysterious stranger who skis magically and imparts mystical knowledge. |
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The widow's small thickset neighbours, gathered in the plain, seemly room, are doggedly attentive as the priest, comically, explains the afterlife to a ghost. |
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Dying as a civilian in peacetime, with nothing and no one at stake, was an almost comically cruel twist of fate. |
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The BBC television series' limited budget may be affectionately referenced with comically chunky spaceship controls and hilarious use of stock footage. |
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As a hysterical parody, my bears comically evoke the carnivalesque. |
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They seemed to mill around like a pack of comically bewildered animals. |
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There is no effort to resolve the incongruity of the movie's semirealistic images with the ethereal play of animated birds comically smashing into things. |
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Although comically represented, the works depict sober modern-day issues. |
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Dressed in casual black, with a pair of almost comically large black specs perched on his pale shaved head, he looks more like a nervy, etiolated physics student rather than a cult literary phenomenon. |
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It is almost implying, almost comically, with everything that has been happening in this House in the short months that I have been here, one would think that everyone over there was wearing a halo. |
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Indeed, there's the cat, comically splayed out on the cobblestones. |
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The house leaned comically, sinking partly into the ground it looked weird, but Angulak being too moved by her memories took no notice and went inside. |
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The environment in which Thorgeson did much of his work now seems comically old-fashioned, not just in terms of the glorious canvas provided by the 12-inch vinyl record, but the people with whom he had to deal. |
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Ramsey's swearing would arrive unexpectedly, like a rabbit punch from the vicar, spring-loaded by his almost comically old world sense of propriety. |
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Leigh and Minghella were nominated for best screenplay, with Leigh an early favourite for his story about the comically strained relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan. |
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Clegg's warm-up act was Lib Dem president Sal Brinton, who reinforced the sense that this election is becoming a comically unedifying turf war over meaningless bits of vocabulary. |
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The sheep are seen unenthusiastically engaged in wearing tasks, such as the comically inventive method of scrubbing the castle walls clean. |
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The comically meagre bid sent the crowd into hysterics. |
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An intricate and comically combustible scenario revolving around a wedding that almost never happens, An Italian Straw Hat combines the dizzying machinations of Labiche's play with a choreographic style of high wit. |
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The relentless rise of post-Edwardian women's hemlines would eventually expose all but the most extremely elevated patent extension as a comically distorted boot which only unladylike trousers could reliably conceal. |
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And it was somewhere there, within that comically vast disparateness between the crude, heavy lifting of his day job and the light precision of a wrist-flicked dart toss, that Leighton Rees found his true calling. |
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One of the first to perform in the main square was Great Dave who entertained with a Superman unicycle routine which looked comically precarious and got the whole audience laughing. |
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When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there! |
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I went to St Mary's and they were comically bad. |
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In having the new Minotaur rescue rather than threaten the lovers, the classical myth is comically inverted. |
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Taylor entered the arena wearing a pair of comically oversized glasses, while Davis arrived sporting a red wig. |
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In this first section, the nonangel is left comically in the dust, but in the second section a different dancer is excluded. |
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Marx was later to incorporate this comically ironic characterisation of Louis Bonaparte's coup into his essay about the coup. |
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But comically, Doumbia capitalises on more uncertain defending in the box but take the ball under full control and fires waywardly. |
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Pearl would watch reruns of the construction demolition of World Trade Center 7 and laugh about how comically obvious it was and how easily fooled the scared and the misinformed are. |
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The Life of John Buncle, Esq includes a discussion of Hutchinsonian ideas but, unlike the vast number of pamphlets on these topics, it does so comically, novelistically. |
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The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters. |
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Following a load of psychobabble rubbish involving Clive comically swimming up and down the pool shouting rude words, he actually did the deed with Granny Greene. |
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