high comedy

But some problems took on an air of high comedy.

The play has the form of high comedy without the substance.

They go about their business with the quiet seriousness of high comedy.

In addition, she produced at least two successful high comedies.

Yet teaching manuals are rare, especially on how to play high comedy.

They were playing out their high comedy not for an audience but for themselves alone.

There were elements of high comedy, I fear, in my glum performance.

She's comfortable both in high comedy and in facing her own death.

But rhyme has a supreme appropriateness for the treatment of the higher comedy.

They continue to amuse us-there is high comedy in it, sure.

Everyone is a tragicomedy, and its comedic elements are high comedy.

She had a pleasant ruddiness of complexion and a really high comedy look to her.

Ken Elliott saw it as high comedy, I felt rushed.

We went from high comedy to higher comedy in three links.

"The Learned Ladies" has been called "the ultimate model of high comedy."

What's missing is any sense of the securely sophisticated style that defines high comedy.

When withdrawn, it left the victim intact and ourselves the richer for a moment of high comedy.

His was the mobile mask of high comedy.

No one is making the Turk a fond, fuzzy memory; it just seems to have led to a certain amount of high comedy.

And yet if you refract the irony of this memoir a little differently, the result is high comedy.

Rarely has this play's classification as one of Shakespeare's high comedies seemed more preposterous.

"The Last of Sheila" may not be high comedy, but it has lines that sting.

A gorgeous mix of farce and high comedy with glittering dialogue.

Maybe this was high comedy after all.

It was his idea of high comedy.