Examples of high comedy in a Sentence
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Performing for a Dutch audience presents a high comedy bar, Meyers explained.
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Nina Siegal, New York Times, 19 June 2023
The hosts’ easy banter buoys the conversation from debate to high comedy.
—Time, 16 June 2023
Certainly Gunda’s days, though they’re mostly spent suckling, snoozing or snuffling, seem full to bursting with the business of getting on with things, punctuated with periods of lazy contentment or high comedy.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
There’s high fantasy, high comedy, and high jinks in this trailer.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 July 2022
On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend.
—Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
Williams was careful to make that moment of high comedy fit the tone.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
The ham-handed manner in which the Senate Republicans presented their case furnished some high comedy.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
Creator Sam Levinson toys with our emotions from scene to scene, giving us high comedy (verging on camp) as well as pathos.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2022
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Nina Siegal, New York Times, 19 June 2023
The hosts’ easy banter buoys the conversation from debate to high comedy.
—Time, 16 June 2023
Certainly Gunda’s days, though they’re mostly spent suckling, snoozing or snuffling, seem full to bursting with the business of getting on with things, punctuated with periods of lazy contentment or high comedy.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
There’s high fantasy, high comedy, and high jinks in this trailer.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 July 2022
On the other hand, minutes after delivering this bit of high comedy, Pa was said to have gone off to meet with his girlfriend.
—Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
Williams was careful to make that moment of high comedy fit the tone.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
The ham-handed manner in which the Senate Republicans presented their case furnished some high comedy.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
Creator Sam Levinson toys with our emotions from scene to scene, giving us high comedy (verging on camp) as well as pathos.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2022
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First Known Use
1707, in the meaning defined above
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“High comedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20comedy. Accessed 26 Sep. 2023.
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