Word: comically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...designed restaurant posters in return for his meals and sat up nights working out comic-strip ideas. He wrote Mom: "You asked if I had been dissipating. If two shows and a few chocolate sundaes could be called dissipating then I'm a playboy...
Puddles to Vallee. First of Ramsey's five-day-a-week dramatic serials was The Puddle Family, lifted bodily from a comic strip. A year's trial convinced him that his daytime drama was on the right track-but he felt he needed something more emotionally robust than the comic-strip Puddles. Why not build a plot around a kindly, sympathetic prototype of mother? Ma Perkins was last week being renewed for still another (her 13th) year...
That's the Spirit (Universal) climbs likably if loutishly aboard one of the only two "trends" discernible in rudderless current movies. Like Wonder Man and Where Do We Go From Here?, it is a comic fantasy. (The other trend, well represented by Conflict-see above-is crime melodrama with Freudian parsley...
...comic acting and his comic cadenzas alike there are occasional blurs of mood and insight - moments which are like being bonged over the head with a champagne bottle instead of savoring the vintage. But they do no serious harm ; they merely show that Danny Kaye is not yet a great comedian. The exciting thing about his work in Wonder Man, aside from the immediate pleasure it gives, is that it shows he may quite possibly become...
Some readers may balk at Adams' often gawky, round about sentences, his fondness for such words as "ilk" and "ichor." But they will be grateful to him for having followed with vigorous impartiality the twists and turns of a morbidly fascinating, often tragi-comic life...