In the same comic vein, he also makes reference to other similar stockbroker belt towns in the area, such as Egham, Langley and Englefield Green.

And what starts out in a comic vein invariably takes a darker turn.

It starts in a comic vein but ends with horribly fatal consequences.

Cavalli's comic vein was worked much more fully in La Calisto (1651).

Victor Braun's La Roche was strong in a broad comic vein.

I think his comic vein deepened as he grew older.

Television and later penned a spec script for another legal drama entitled Legally Mad in a comic vein.

It's a surprise to find Ms. Schulman working this comic vein; the set could pass for the living room on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

With this comic vein tapped out, the new film moves onto more serious matters, and wilder fauna.

"It's about my life and surroundings, the worlds I've passed through, all done in a comic vein," she says.