| 单词 | low comedy |
| 例句 | What movie, what concert, what play, what book, what TV show, what dance, what high art or low comedy? The Hot List: From 20 Critics, A Ticket to Summer 2012-06-21T21:50:28Z The excellent cast members haven’t yet found the ideal tone for the work’s abundant wit, its contrasts of low comedy with courtly heights. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-01T22:40:24Z The notion of interleaving a story of high tragic tone with another set in the vein of low comedy was utterly fresh. Opera review: Young artists offer seductive 'Ariadne' 2010-04-02T20:23:00Z But, like Shakespeare, Melville was also fond of low comedy. On the trail of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Despite the borderline low comedy of the outhouse dialogue, Friedenberg is more alert to the couple’s mutual regard. Jeff Nichols’s “Loving”: An Airbrushed Portrait of the Interracial Couple Whose Struggle Changed History 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z And it just keeps expanding to meet a seemingly insatiable local demand for whimsy, sauciness, low comedy and skillful stunts. Duck out of the rain at the annual Moisture Festival in Seattle 2011-03-17T20:05:12Z The three bond in a herky-jerky plot of low comedy, knockabout combat and a saccharine song here and there. Review: ‘Monster Hunt’ Features a Baby Beast on the Run With Its Surrogate Parents 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z She plays these moments, at the start, for either existential or low comedy. Review: Sarah Hepola’s ‘Blackout,’ on the Darkness That Took Over Her Life 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Kostroff is terrific with the ground rules of low comedy, and you can see the gears whirring in that desperate mind. Hitler musical caper rides again in ‘The Producers’ at Olney 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z What connects the novels and the stories is Barry’s style, a nervy mix of high poetry and low comedy that he applies with unceasing vigor. Kevin Barry’s Stories of Yearning Swing Between Pathos and Humor 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Wisdom’s very English brand of low comedy did not find favor with every American critic. Norman Wisdom, Funnyman, Dies at 95 2010-10-06T05:14:00Z Gleefully dumb but eager to entertain, this is cheeseball stuff baked with deliciously outsized performances and low comedy and photographed across mighty beautiful landscapes. 'Big Game' runs amok with outsized acting and eccentric cliffhangers 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But Fentiman's pick'n'mix approach to place and his juxtaposition of high tragedy and low comedy only becomes clear towards the climax. Titus Andronicus – review 2013-05-24T16:47:26Z The evening’s skilled actors are more than game for the physical challenges of low comedy. Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z In it she writes, “Rome still helps to define the way we understand our world and think about ourselves, from high theory to low comedy.” In the south of France, Nimes celebrates and preserves ancient Rome 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z And isn’t that what the best low comedy is all about? Theater Review: Lady Bunny in ?That Ain?t No Lady!? at La Escuelita - Review 2011-12-25T22:05:22Z And thus again, high fashion meets low comedy. The ‘Zoolander 2’ Trailer and All Its Looks 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z There is plenty of low comedy as well, a bracing silliness that places Austen in the line of British humor that extends through P. G. Wodehouse to Monty Python. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Rome still helps to define the way we understand our world and think about ourselves, from high theory to low comedy. What a strange lot 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Bottom’s acting troupe, meanwhile, provides low comedy of the highest order, as the bickering performers rehearse their play with a heaping dose of vaudevillian slapstick. Review | ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ still casts a spell at Synetic Theater 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations. Bill Irwin shares the secrets of Samuel Beckett in a masterclass at the Kirk Douglas 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The low comedy of charlatanry, however, should not distract us from the lethal dangers of a wounded and swaggering identity geopolitics. Opinion | The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Through its narrow canon, the tone of “Star Wars” has always been determinedly self-serious, whereas the Marvel movies, like the decades of comics they sprang from, veer wildly from high drama to low comedy. The Superweirdo Behind ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Still, as a low comedy about crazed middle-American family life, “The Long Haul” pretty much delivers on its promise, diapers and all. Review | Fourth ‘Wimpy Kid’ film mixes fitful laughs with frequent groans 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Partly due to the film’s brief hour-and-a-quarter length, some scenes seem overly compressed and edited to create both high drama and low comedy. Review | ‘Born in China,’ starring a panda cub, monkey and snow leopard, elicits awe 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Institutions of higher education are engaged in the low comedy of avoiding the agonies of Yale University. The specter of the ‘safe space’ is haunting college campuses 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z They were immensely popular with audiences who loved the low comedy, exaggerated situations and bewildering plot twists. Obituary: Brian Rix - BBC News 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z The play is filled with sexual innuendo and low comedy, and has rarely been a favorite of critics. Review: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ Goes for High Jinks and Low Comedy 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z His memories of overnight bus rides and crazy characters unspool in stories of low budgets and low comedy. A Hockey Life Full of Turns in the Minors 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z When I first worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, I started in what’s called ‘low comedy’ roles, like Touchstone, Grumio and Lancelot. Patrick Stewart flexes his comedy muscle in ‘Blunt Talk’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z She will appreciate the low comedy inherent in any college visit. A way for Malia Obama to have more fun this summer 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z There was low comedy: A doctor used “HT” to mean “hypertension,” but the computer understood “hammertoe.” First Person: Hypertension or Hammertoe? To the Computer, It’s Just ‘HT’ - The Digital Doctor 2012-10-08T21:35:02Z The collision between Oakland’s growing cadre of small-business owners and the local Occupy movement has produced some memorable moments of low comedy. Oakland, the Last Refuge of Radical America 2012-08-01T17:16:25Z I wanted, I told him, to be an actor, and would play anything from melodrama to low comedy. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z And I'd sooner be Kiss, first low comedy, than dramatic critic of the best paper going. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z Then the abb�, shrugging his shoulders, in disgust drawled out, "Have we not had enough of this low comedy?" The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z To tell the truth, it was seldom that Hodge could see comedy in anything, and low comedy, sure to appeal to the masses, he regarded as foolish. Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star 2012-01-20T03:00:15.013Z Witty and pathetic as Mr. Douglas Blackburn can be on occasion, he indulges in neither low comedy, nor sickly sentimentality in “Leaven.” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z But she takes counsel with the kind old lady, Self-Determination of Peoples, and is considerably helped by the low comedy character, Obesity, who always appears at just the right moment. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z It is by well-motived characterization that drama passes from melodrama to story-play and so to tragedy; or, from the broadest farce or extravaganza through low comedy to high. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z At the age of eighteen he ran away from school and appeared at Margate as Courtall in The Belle’s Stratagem; afterwards he joined Tate Wilkinson’s company and turned from tragedy to low comedy parts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z He was cast as Samuel Stillbottle, a bailiff's man, made up like Fields, the tramp juggler, and called upon to perform all the antics dear to low comedy. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Plautus excels in low comedy and ridicule, Terence in drawing just characters, and maintaining them to the last. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Similor was to perform the valets in Molière’s comedies, and eccentric low comedy characters. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z He is coarse, uneducated, and vulgar; he never picked up any semblance of the class from whom he peculated; and has lived on, as he began, a "low comedy villain," and no more. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z We took no porter with us to fill the rôle of first low comedy man. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z Two or three good situations, an episode of low comedy, and the epitaph of the Knight with its famous final couplet, exhaust the list of his credits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z In fact, my attitude was perilously near to that of the Arkansas audiences as analysed by the Duke in "Huckleberry Finn": "What they wanted was low comedy—and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy." Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z In these pieces we discover the first traces of that genius for low comedy which was afterwards to take perfect form in the dramas of Breder�o and the paintings of Teniers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z At moments during this hourlong dialogue, contentiousness morphed into a place where low comedy meets sophistry. The Haggler: The New Car With Mystery Add-Ons 2010-12-25T17:46:36Z The visit of the shah, he told reporters, was “low comedy,” in which “the public is justified in throwing eggs and tomatoes if the performance does not satisfy them.” Fritz Teufel, a German Protester in the ?60s, Is Dead at 67 2010-08-07T22:40:00Z While Dryden met with such indifferent success in his willing efforts to supply the demand of the age for low comedy, he struck upon a really popular and profitable vein in heroic tragedy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" It was the only thing wanting to complete the picture, from which even the low comedy incident was not wanting. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections "It is about the best bit of low comedy—" "I detest low comedy." Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy—and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade But Miss Rehan had no mind to look grotesque, and as to low comedy, it is clear out of her line. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though with more reputation I could write in verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" He'd just be getting that impression, and then Tom would pull some of his low comedy stuff and queer the whole thing. Bert Wilson on the Gridiron Two years later he was a regular member of the Drury Lane company in London, where he had a great success in the low comedy and servants' parts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" In the lighter parts there are sometimes fair touches of low comedy; in the graver occasionally, though much more rarely, a touching or dignified phrase or two. A History of Elizabethan Literature Mr. West, lately added to the company, seems to promise something in low comedy; and Mr. Hardinge, in Irish 160 characters, and vocal parts will certainly be an acquisition to the theatre. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 "Maybe he don't want to be made a new man of," suggested the low comedy man. A Pirate of Parts He wants a low comedy part introduced—without singing—thinking it will take with the audience; but he is desirous of explaining to me what he means and who he intends to play it. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 In Italy especially many subjects of a what may be called low comedy, are very naturally expressed by dancing. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing His face and person are well adapted to a certain class of low comedy; his voice still more so. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 Of the few who lived to see him and Garrick, the far greater number gave him the palm, with the exception of Garrick’s excellence in low comedy. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 For my own part, though I almost invariably play low comedy parts, yet, as a rule, I prefer pathos, I think.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In the region of low comedy he is easily the most original, the most inexhaustible, the most wonderful of modern humorists. Brief History of English and American Literature Dig knew his part well, and acted it with such a depth of low comedy that it mattered little what mistakes or blunders the funny irascible and the funny meek gentlemen and ladies made. The Master of the Shell No trouble about any of those things, Miss Sylla, unless it's the low comedy wig, and about that I have my doubts. Belles and Ringers In low comedy where shall we find a competitor to Jefferson? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 She was making a low comedy sound which would have distressed her beyond measure if she had heard it. Jane Journeys On Humor may easily descend to low comedy by use of ridicule, and often the audience does not differentiate between low comedy and rare humor. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep He had much popular success as Captain Cuttle in John Brougham's dramatization of Dombey and Son, and in other low comedy parts in plays from Dickens's novels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He laughed brutally at the low comedy Shoes with the swollen Promontories and the Trousers with the double Reef and the folding Cuffs and the Hair with the Patent-Leather Gloss. Knocking the Neighbors This second piece belongs to the class of low comedy, and is as simple in construction as its companion. The Youth of Goethe They were a species of low comedy of an indecent description, in which the dialogue was subordinate to mimicry and gesture. A Smaller History of Rome The part that Jack Cade really played in national affairs has no likeness to the low comedy performance imagined by Shakespeare. The Rise of the Democracy They make our cheeks burn, as if we were performing some very ridiculous part in low comedy; but they do not warm one’s heart, like ‘Annie Laurie.’ Sword and Gown A Novel I don't think it was bad sport, on the whole, to open with low comedy. Foe-Farrell The red wig gives a hint of low comedy, and it may be that the great actor made use of low comedy expedients to cloak Shylock's inveterate malignity and sinister purpose. Shadows of the Stage She had called in low comedy and rant to please the foolish, only to find herself infected and degraded by their company. The Growth of English Drama Convinced by this experiment that tragedy was not his line, he turned his attention to low comedy, and enacted Jocrisse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 His notion of constructing a novel was to take equal parts of wooden melodrama and low comedy and stick them boldly together in a paste of impertinent drollery and serious but entirely irrelevant moralizing. Adventures in Criticism "The same sentiment puts me on record," chuckled David Pollard: "Then let us forget the low comedy, the melodrama, or whatever it was," proposed the boatbuilder. The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts But when Madhus turns from such flights of high poetry to low comedy, his success is complete. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway His versatility was astonishing—light comedy, old men, pantomime, low comedy, and occasionally juvenile tragedy. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made My friend, here, is the stage-manager and low comedy buffer, who takes the kicks, and blows the trumpet of the establishment. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 Such a verse as— ’Tis the subtle essayal Of the Jews and Judas, Such lying lisp Might hail a will-o’-the-wisp, A thin somebody—Theudas— is an excellent example of low comedy in poetry. Reviews It is a piece of poetic low comedy that will almost certainly entertain and delight any reader who goes to it expecting to be bored. The Art of Letters Liston, John, an English actor of low comedy, and long famous on the London stage, to which he was introduced by Charles Kemble; d. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Mrs. Clive is at least as perfect in low comedy—and yet to me, Ranger was the part that suited Garrick the best of all he ever performed. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II He returned to London, and thence went to Canterbury, in 1780, to play low comedy characters, where he first became what theatrical biographers term "a favourite." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 His chief fault is a tendency to low comedy; but some people like low comedy in fiction. Reviews Now and then there might be good sentences, like the sentences of P. Syrus, that are yet left us, but the groundwork was low comedy, and any thing of greater dignity drops in by chance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces He was a twentieth century Falstaff, and the playwright might find his low comedy in a character like this thrust into the grim horror of the war. The Soul of the War In an evil hour, leaving the composition of low comedy, in which he held an honourable station, he adventured upon the composition of operas and pastorals. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author In the region of low comedy he is easily the most original, the most inexhaustible, the most wonderful, of modern humorists. From Chaucer to Tennyson His principal power lay in low comedy—his chief fault lay in his systematic and avowed imitation of the rough and drunken manners of Ben Jonson. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes Well, the troop played for a fortnight together exceedingly well—high tragedy and low comedy—and the stage-box which I occupied cost 16 francs. Life and Letters of Robert Browning She had heard the commandant informing the landlady, a grand low comedy character from Brooklyn, who had the room next to Cecil's. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis At my best I don't reach higher than low comedy. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe. Middlemarch This species of blindness must be wilfully designed as a burlesque effect and again finds its echo in low comedy types of today. The Dramatic Values in Plautus He assigned the parts and always reserved for himself the eccentric character and the low comedy, caring nothing for the heroic or the sentimental. A Little Book of Western Verse It contains one or two touches of low comedy, but these are redeemed by the spirit of inexhaustible jollity which sets the whole thing rocking with life and gaiety. Authors of Greece He even resorted, it is said, to the stage as a temporary expedient, and figured in low comedy at a country town in Kent. Oliver Goldsmith A Biography If the contrast is a dignified one we have high comedy; but if the reverse, low comedy. Cambridge Sketches We should make bold to catalogue them as follows: Machinery characteristic of the lower types of modern drama--farce, low comedy, musical comedy, burlesque shows, vaudeville, and the like. The Dramatic Values in Plautus It is in the nature of low comedy, or farce, and written on the model of Plautus's Menæchmi. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III Mrs. Clive is at least as perfect in low comedy.' Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 Ostensibly, you go to view the scenery, really, to be inveigled into paying for a low comedy of a dinner at the other end. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 26, September 24, 1870 I am afraid, Mr Fustian, you have hitherto suspected that I was a dabbler in low comedy; now, sir, you shall see some scenes of politeness and fine conversation among the ladies. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 Webster's dictionary gives to them the following denotations, or definitions: Farce: "A dramatic composition, written without regularity, and differing from comedy chiefly in the grotesqueness, extravagance and improbability of its characters and incidents; low comedy." Writing for Vaudeville You insatiable people! do you expect me to give you low comedy and heavy tragedy all alone? Work: a Story of Experience With how sure an instinct, by the way, Chaucer has anticipated that unwritten law of the modern drama according to which low comedy characters always appear in couples! Chaucer He was afraid that Mr. Baird in his effort to struggle out of the slough of low comedy was not going to be wholly successful. Merton of the Movies He had read a hundred stories in which heroes, heroines, low comedy friends and even villains did all sorts of reckless things with their assistance. A Damsel in Distress I had seven years' apprenticeship at it, during which most of my labour was in the field of comedy—"walking gentleman," burlesque, and low comedy parts—the while my soul was yearning for high tragedy. Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors |
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