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"comical" Definitions
  1. funny, especially because it is strange or silly

866 Sentences With "comical"

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Because a warm, comical, reassuring movie about Hitler seems like the logical sequel to a warm, comical, reassuring movie about Jim Crow.
After a series of comical and not-so-comical misunderstandings, which the inn's landlord, Peter Coffin, clears up, both men are able to get in bed together and go to sleep.
Still, everyone on both sides found the strange answer comical.
Some precautions seem so far from reality they're almost comical.
Well, the bass these things pump out is almost comical.
Pence to say what is so … comical about nuclear war.
It would almost be comical if it weren't so serious.
It's an almost comical concept, and it's all absolutely true.
The kingdom maintains an almost comical obsession with Iran's activities.
The next night in Houston, though, things got properly comical.
It's weird because when enough time passes, everything becomes comical.
The response to his name was both unanimous and comical.
Which I always found comical because I'm just sitting somewhere.
It would be comical were the consequences not so horrifying.
It would be comical were it not so damn serious.
Maybe it's supposed to be comical, but it never hits.
Every gruesome scene from "Street Fighter" is comical to me.
Kitri does the same thing in a more comical way.
I was responsible for one of the more comical ones.
By that point, Gucci fetishism had become parodic and comical.
"Now that seems comical as we sit at almost 53,000!" 
Some might even call it comical in its own right.
The musician narrated her video, and added comical commentary throughout.
Go deeper: Graham's Democratic challenger accuses him of "comical" hypocrisy
Getting in touch with my father was, at first, comical.
I'm now hedging in a way that is almost comical.
Sometimes the results were comical, as with Trump's steak company.
That makes the letdown less comical and more disturbingly personal.
It was TechCrunch's parent company, distant and somewhat comical to me:
It fits his pattern of behavior so predictably, it's almost comical.
"Their begging skills are on point," she captioned the comical photo.
So, he was just expressing that in a very comical way.
Prejudice was rife in parliament, ranging from the comical to humiliating.
It was comical to watch, but the situation was extremely serious.
It's almost comical in hindsight, but the reality was far from.
"Their appearance can be a bit comical," Torregrosa said on Wednesday.
This period is very memorable (read: comical) to Saint James employees.
Yes, it's comical — white privilege mixed with a "Hee Haw" parody.
"I think it was astonishingly comical that everybody got that excited."
Jake Gyllenhaal is showing off his musical skills to comical results.
Check out the soapy Snapchat video to witness the comical cleaning.
So it's kind of confusing and comical at the same time.
Most sport flat, Buster Keaton -ish hats: comical but not funny.
An elaborate tomb filled with valuable trinkets and comical booby-traps?
It would be comical if it was not so damned frightening.
The good thing is, French dog owners found his behavior comical.
Unless you're looking for a comical souvenir, there's no value here.
There are a comical number of misguided conspiracy theories about Facebook.
The owners and managers were sociopaths but they were almost comical.
Sometimes it's almost comical: Want to go to Busch Gardens once?
It had costs astronomical, ugliness comical, and design by Mr. Magoo.
The ends always justify the means, to an almost comical degree.
In the video, teen angst is taken to its comical extreme.
Rihanna is saluting her 20s in the most comical (and sartorial) way!
Another form of elevation is represented in Urs Lüthi's comical "Selfportrait" (1976).
The people there talked about Trump like he was a comical sideshow.
Cook regularly photoshops himself into various photos, giving them a comical edge.
The other women can't help but find the entire situation quite comical.
They stalked Mr Brat, online and in-person, occasionally to comical effect.
Throughout, Protestants had an almost comical capacity for hypocrisy of all kinds.
Pence to say what is so enjoyable or comical about nuclear war.
Pop culture can be comical – and this artist takes that description literally.
It may sound comical, but summits like this actually do spark change.
As comical as that mistake was, other impediments ran perhaps even deeper.
Clio Chang: The developments are happening so fast that it's almost comical.
Communication breakdowns were downright comical (and a tad annoying if you're hungry).
Still, the show's ending is lovely: theatrical, touching and gently, irresistibly comical.
Though thankfully, most of the subsequent incidents were more comical than tragic.
" The result of the pacing — from Floyd's veteran perspective — "is almost comical.
Perhaps the monkey is a comical reflection of the viewer's avaricious self.
"   The couple actually installed the Stikwood themselves — something Alexa describes as "comical.
The crudeness of these effects is part of the generally comical spirit.
It's not a particularly funny song, but the video is unrelentingly comical.
Some are explicit, some are more expressive, and others are simply comical.
There's something both comical and touching about how regally they carry themselves.
Skeletons and skulls regularly appear in folk tales as ghostly, comical characters.
Many of the pickups involved snippets, and their juxtaposition was sometimes comical.
We've been pummeled in a profound way and an almost comical way.
The love story at the film's heart is more comical than erotic.
With hindsight, the procession of miscues and bad decisions appears almost comical.
The dilemma that produces Zuckerberg's comical performances is baked into the situation.
But despite the comical aspect of tonight's fights, these were real fights.
The figures, hollow and comical, suggest the emptiness of the Klan's terror.
We didn't look like the three stooges, but we looked kind of comical.
"I'm assuming it was him being more comical more than anything," he says.
Yet comical though it sounds, parts of our politics has already been technified.
It's obviously a joke, but perhaps there's something to this comical fan theory.
That's when I figured out where he got some of his comical ideas.
He answered his own question with a series of wickedly comical historical novels.
The charges against Mr Titiev would be comical were they not so sinister.
Where it gets it comical size is probably some prehistoric alien energy source.
On its face, manipulating the code of dating sites seems creepy or comical.
The agency's attempts to kill Castro ranged from the calamitous to the comical.
We think of them as these bumbling, comical figures, maybe a bit boozy.
The mystery that plays out is just as compelling as it is comical.
But this puts an almost comical amount of trust in Majority Leader McConnell.
He's the president and he's gross and comical – a small-minded, lowlife jerk.
This rather unfishlike behavior is called "shambling" and can be comical to watch.
"Bird's Hell" (220) is a political commentary masked as a darkly comical fantasy.
We should find the morality in comedy, but we shouldn't make morality comical.
"There's actually a comical aspect to this," McCaffrey said while speaking on MSNBC.
The usual answer seems to be "narcissism" — self-absorption indulged to comical extremes.
And Clinton takes pride in understanding policy details, to an almost comical degree.
She's been in an unflatteringly comical fight with Ms. Perry, on the other.
Actually, I think I'm writing funny stories, because they can be very comical.
Behind his almost comical facade, I sensed a truly powerful disdain and resentment.
The Navy made an almost comical play for plausible deniability of America's role.
"This is so absurd it's almost comical," wrote Republican party spokeswoman Kami Mueller.
At times the level of self-dealing inside the charity becomes downright comical.
The speech, in typical British fashion, is full of nearly comical pomp and circumstance.
So I thought it was comical that people wanted to do away with ICE.
These pictures offer plenty of organisms that look alien to most people, even comical.
Their fight is almost comical at first — Danny hits Luke repeatedly, to no avail.
This is comical since the two social networks are barely in the same arena.
This is a really, really trendy coffee shop, so the scene is pretty comical.
" Avenatti fired back, telling Fox News that Cohen&aposs claims were "comical and baseless.
The heart of the story is about the comical ups and downs of relationships.
He described the charges that the secularist daily backed the Gulen network as "comical".
Greed is clouding this market in ways that are at once dangerous and comical.
That it was carried out and framed by OITNB as almost comical felt wrong.
He narrates his own life with an inner monologue that's both frenetic and comical.
Instead, Boruah, 35, uses his comical contraption to strike up conversations with curious onlookers.
The details in the indictment are comical in the retelling of such naked corruption.
The mad rush to develop serves only to confirm our comical, almost antediluvian backwardness.
In the annals of Brexit posturing, few approach the comical exaggeration of Boris Johnson.
In this context, Gopnik's blissful ignorance reads not as comical but as deeply sinister.
Watching him execute anything and everything on this Golden State Warriors team is comical.
Comical videos shot round Twitter comparing Giuliani's speech to punk songs and hardcore singers.
But more recent shows have taken the "they're back" effect to almost comical heights.
Toward the end she should solve that problem in a surprising and comical manner.
The comical image of a pair of lovers, reduced to cheap commodities, is unmistakable.
They harbor delusions of grandeur that are in painfully comical contrast to their reality.
"It was, I suppose, again that line between comical and obscene," the person said.
Mr. Vantuycom, explosive and frequently overwrought, dashed out repeatedly with an almost comical vigor.
All of which adds up to a very comical, very humanist take on Emma.
On the one hand, it was so over-the-top, it was almost comical.
" North Carolina's Republican Party slammed the decision, calling it "so absurd, it's almost comical.
Clemetson started putting up comical billboards six months ago to help attract more business.
"Sprint used the comical tagline: We're almost as good for less money," Moffett said.
We agree that there is a comical element to having a meeting about meetings.
But the notion that analytics is foreign territory to minority managerial candidates is comical.
For example, the bodybuilder image was facilitated by a comical, blow-up muscle suit.
I was interested in ... this is comical now because this was 230 years ago.
The resulting imbalances in power can seem comical—like gadflies conspiring to topple an elephant.
But the jeans are back again...and they're still just as comical to look at.
"It became almost comical," Shiraev said, noting that the audience was laughing throughout the taping.
Hero Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is a contender for a near comical number of prophecies.
Previously, Disney had released a comical teaser in November that featured Jack-Jack exhibiting superpowers.
It wasn't just that the attempt to spin through the situation looked comical and amateurish.
His sudden infatuation and her rejection are almost comical, given how quickly everything is happening.
You want to create an experience — comical, emotional, horror — that gives the viewer a reaction.
And the transition into real horror is so abrupt, it's almost comical — until it isn't.
The resulting images are by turns comical, serious, contradictory, playful, and searching — all very human.
But the combative, impulsive López Obrador has made way for a lighthearted, even comical one.
Adding to the confusion is the comical level of secrecy that's shrouding the Foxconn project.
While accomplishing nothing, hopefully this comical eruption of pathetic desperation will make them feel better.
With a fast shutter speed, these photos are quite comical with Toby's tongue sticking out.
It looks, feels, and sounds fake — a moment that's more comical than it is scary.
It's a startling, almost comical image, until the film makes it disturbing, sad, and plaintive.
Article headlines paint a picture that would be comical, if the situation weren't so grave.
The film became my family's favorite because, ultimately, it was a comical and romantic tale.
The ensuing run-up is almost comical: a tiptoe sprint followed by a relaxed jog.
In 2012, TopherChris took this GIF and reversed it... ...for comical effect in this GIF.
These people all followed (and likely still follow) a playbook that seems worn, almost comical.
The promised repeal of Obamacare has failed a comical number of times (yet remains undead).
During the trial, some of the comments from Ellis have been less comical than cringeworthy.
"A lot of it, I think, he sees as comical," Preston said of Torshin's reaction.
Noteworthy as well are the small, subtly comical representations of biblical scenes by Hannah Greely.
Other patients, comical or desperate to a suitably entertaining measure, contribute to the mounting tension.
Sartori combines Father and Son in the comical reach and tone of His voice. His?
Sometimes we get our facts wrong, and the results can range from comical to disastrous.
Meanwhile, the game continually gestures at the comical enormity of what lies outside your goal.
It's a comical, heartbreaking, horribly honest moment, appalling when it happens and dazzling in retrospect.
However comical the conditions were at times, none of this is visible in her photographs.
You don't have to be Frankenstein to create a convincing monster — or a comical one.
There was a lot of talk about leaks of classified information — some of it comical.
Even when this process is mostly comical, as in "Lady Bird," the stakes are serious.
The charge of virtue signaling, though, has metastasized well beyond this type of comical figure.
It was almost comical how her being there tripped up some of the regular protestors.
In particular, Strechay stressed that "there are a lot of comical portrayals of blindness" onscreen.
This threw me into the comical position of trying to sell her on the genre.
But it's still a weird, comical sight — until Felix tries on his own Auggie glasses.
Is the catering company itself — with its almost comical name — some kind of C.I.A. front?
One person who attended Wednesday's meeting on the matter called it "almost a comical development".
Hanna, a more accomplished seamstress than Laura, shares an almost comical aversion to making buttonholes.
It's an odd, comical sight, with the slender beam bending lazily over the natural landscape.
It fell onto Toby Alderweireld's foot, and dribbled, in comical slow motion, across the line.
This treadmill terror of an elimination quickly turns into a comical nut-cracking circus ballet act.
So how exactly did a 7-year-old come up with the comical persona, you ask?
The result remains one of the most wonderfully comical, anti-ironic TV performances of all time.
It would be almost comical if Trump's tweets created the largest of his presidency's opportunity costs.
Here, especially in a comical-terrifying scene of macho display, the speed is aggressive and distorting.
How did you see the installation framing these castes of gesture as uncanny, efficient, or comical?
But the most comical moment came when Russell struggled to figure out Rhys' biggest celebrity crush.
While the site is fairly comical, it is sufficiently complete and would fool the casual observer.
Seeing Mari trying to get me out was comical because I didn't get to see it.
Or will the card feature Kardashians as we know them: loud, grandiose, and verging on comical?
He was looking for a way to make the mood more comical and stop us crying.
And like other examples of those traditions, it can be joyous, comical, transgressive, and deeply problematic.
Also, as with all glittery eye products, removing this liner was comical, to say the least.
The Republican dreams about what united government could bring back in January 2017 today seem comical.
" But the most comical attraction might be economic: "the best tax evasion system God ever created.
Unfortunately, the catalyst for their series of comical mishaps rests on tired and offensive Latino stereotypes.
Only a debate development of comical magnitude could have reversed the public's impressions of these candidates.
And it's wishful thinking, like the long, comical wait for Trump to "pivot" during the campaign.
Just buy a frame and you have a classy and comical addition to any bare wall.
The comparisons drawn were inevitable: The Jesus Lizard (appropriately evil), Mclusky (brutally comical), Helmet (terse, lean).
For Pierre Berge of the house of Saint Laurent to call the kettle black is comical.
The stuffed quail requires the sacrifice of two whole birds, and a comical quantity of buckwheat.
With two outs, Davis was taking comical leads off second base and Lester was clearly flustered.
A Ghost Story doesn't have much talking at all (and in some places, to comical effect).
At the same time, her language often becomes so mannered as to verge on the comical.
He is writing a book about the comical, often misunderstood lives of dog breeders for FSG.
Other ISPs have similarly abused this lack of oversight and accountability, often to a comical degree.
The commercial is clearly comical, but when that lion roared, man, I was fucking terrified. Terrified!
Mr. Schur reminded her of his vision for her music in baldly comical record-executive-speak.
A hallmark of the season has been Pittsburgh struggling in weeks that seemed like comical mismatches.
Sometimes the rooms are already haunted, in ways that can be sinister, comical or even sweet.
Frazier's two-run homer in the third made it 5-0 and provided a comical moment.
This translated into extensive surveillance that would be almost comical if it hadn't been so unsettling.
The result of this increasingly provocative discourse is often pathetic, at times comical and occasionally worrying.
"There's all these comical efforts to make new food look like the old food," he said.
He died at the age of 76, and left behind provocative as well as comical quotes.
That leaves a comical mismatch between the second-best and second-worst teams in the West.
As a result, there are, of course, comical moments for bystanders watching when the donkey protests.
She knocked on his door and let the raps play out a jaunty, half-comical rhythm.
He starts with Sean Spicer making up what's kind of a comical lie about crowd size.
Justin Verlander (source of one of last night's more comical at bats) strikes out with nobody on.
Amy Schumer may be struggling from a tough pregnancy, but she still hasn't lost her comical charm!
"It was sort of comical watching Andrew Gillum and Biden walk through a rope line," Schale laughed.
All of this would be comical had lawmakers previously "done something" about Section 230, with awful results.
It's so deliciously comical, though, that the tool to save James Hurley is a plastic gardening glove.
What has been the most interesting, original, comical or creative costume that you've seen someone else wear?
Earlier works of his in particular are laced with darkly comical allusions to negative emotion and death.
I know that it was supposed to be comical, but the officer's reaction was violent and unnecessary.
"Equifax's incompetence would be comical if the subject matter weren't so serious," Herrera said in the statement.
So, yes, polarization among US federal legislators has most definitely grown more extreme, to near-comical levels.
The girl is a teacher and the spelling errors in her posts are both comical and horrifying.
In fact, Arnold can be flat-out funny, which makes the New Celebrity Apprentice sometimes unexpectedly comical.
Obiefule commonly known as Chief Obi, is popular for his comical portrayal of a stereotypical Nigerian dad.
" After asking her bae if he was still coming over, she received the comical response, "I can't.
According to this truly comical Wall Street Journal article, women's workplace attire has undergone a major shift.
Any kind of romantic or erotic attachment is forbidden, and disciplinary methods range from comical to horrific.
Tehran's comical tit-for-tat is the latest salvo in reaction to the Trump administration's tougher rhetoric.
Her insistence reached comical levels when she appeared on Jeanine Pirro's Fox News show on Saturday night.
Berlusconi could be dismissed as comical, by Italians as well as by the foreigners who mocked him.
Sony RX100 III for $598 ($150 off): Sony updates the RX100 line so frequently it's almost comical.
"Le Volcan" involves staged comical scenes with people in fanciful costumes acting out magic ceremonies and séances.
He showed a video of a supposed possible seizure that was in fact a comical gesture Mrs.
In pop culture, it's often depicted as comical (how many comedies are powered by male nudity gags?).
The vicious, but comical series of events leaves the singer plotting her revenge, and ends in tragedy.
The dynamic would be comical if Trump wasn't supposed to be the leader of the free world.
So when we went around and talked to FTC commissioners back then, I mean it was comical.
There followed, by Mr. Howald's account, a string of events so ridiculous as to be almost comical.
The discovery sets off a comical, decades long journey in search of the truth about his brother.
"It's kind of comical how poor the disclosure is," said Matt Kennedy, an analyst at Renaissance Capital.
As a new mother, Walsh Jennings found herself in what she described as comical — and unexpected — situations.
With her two comical Harlem-grown tween cousins, Amara explores New York with both success and calamity.
I've participated in multiple 'whisky tasting experiences' over the years, and it's comical how bad I am.
Three new nighttime, but not necessarily bedtime, books explore in turn comical, comforting and unsettling nocturnal worlds.
"It seems almost comical, just Ivy League upon Ivy League, the Mayflower and so on," she said.
But logic is of surprisingly little help in the epic, quasi-comical confrontations he has with listeners.
In their first game against each other as head coaches, Zimmer is at an almost comical advantage.
London-based artist Claudia Maté's work of surreal, looping GIFs were as comical and strange as usual.
ABERNATHY: It&aposs a comical movie to me and those of us in the shark world would agree.
You guys, I swear — half the time I don't even read them anymore because they're so f—— comical.
But the most comical part about this is that she keeps volunteering herself as the CEO for Facebook.
Blackburn is particularly loyal to AT&T, whose stranglehold over countless state legislatures sometimes teeters on the comical.
While the two exes looked comfortable, Beckinsale gave a comical explanation for why Sheen was wearing a onesie.
Meanwhile, Teddy's near-comical string of failures (dude can't even die right) makes him a very rugged Sisyphus.
"His words are not comical, his words are not funny," the Labour Party's Tulip Siddiq said of Trump.
There are some ridiculously massive sex toys on the market these days — some so large they're almost comical.
The story hinges on a surprising and comical makeshift family that Alice forms with three twentysomething aspiring filmmakers.
Bridges' celebrated career has included films ranging from the serious (True Grit) to the comical (The Big Lebowski).
However, South Korean culture seems to treat any expression of dissent — comical or not — as aiding the enemy.
"I love fitness and I love making people laugh, so I just shared it as a comical thing."
The President has failed thus far to close the prison, which has an almost comical number of issues.
Cable-news flakey Roland Martin's comical dustup with Snoop Doggy Dogg was just the tip of the iceberg.
He acts, he posts comical tweets, and he even has his own brand of gin called Aviation Gin.
Filmmakers splice together the interviews to create a disjointed, almost comical, dialogue over the essence of Patsy Ramsey.
She uses "cloth, clay, paint, and wood" and stays away from jiggly eyes and other more comical accoutrements. 
It has also launched a cat-and-mouse game of sometimes comical proportions in this South American nation.
The comical photograph obviously caused the haters came out to play, but Beyoncé's response was sheer unexpected brilliance.
The game shares their apathy, getting them out of power and back on the streets with comical brevity.
Delays aren't exactly uncommon in Hollywood, but Avatar has been shuffled around to a comical extent since 2009.
There's something cartoonish about her energy that's sensual and comical in equal parts, like an entrepreneurial Jessica Rabbit.
Bald, dressed in black, and speaking in a semi-comical French accent, Barzaghi was given to preposterous utterances.
Similarly, the case that Trump sought to obstruct the investigation has passed an almost comical point of definitiveness.
"Equifax's incompetence would be comical if the subject matter weren't so serious," Herrera said in a prepared statement.
But as the Disney figurine bust shows, nothing is too comical or too cute to avoid suspicion entirely.
Its quick pace and repetitive movement are comical, parodying the idea that artificial intelligence is intelligent at all.
At times there's something almost comical about the ease with which the Phil's success has toppled conventional wisdom.
Yes, the Hatton Garden job was big and brazen in execution, undone by the gang's almost comical hubris.
The text, available in paperback and (of course) Kindle, highlights more than 100 items that inspired comical reactions.
He's right, of course, but for a different though probably just as comical reason: These plays are nuts!
Instead, they use dance, acrobatics and carefully orchestrated movement to create intriguing body architecture and often comical skits.
This situation is not comical at the granular level for our military staffs and embassies; it is nightmarish.
It's comical the unloved MacBook Air is the only laptop Apple now sells with an SD card slot.
Prince is at her comical best when the movie needs her face to do what a screenplay can't.
Take Australian politician Barnaby Joyce, and his oddly harsh and comical threat to kill Johnny Depp's dogs, for instance.
If you have a big wide face, and you have a very narrow brim, it looks comical and weird.
Oh, and one of Uber's early investors lost his dang mind when writing a comical memo at 4 am.
If you're single, dating, married, or a fan of Mr. Bean, you'll surely appreciate these comical tweets about love.
Single Parents still has a long way to go to catch up with the comical pinnacle New Girl reached.
They both deal with very serious topics in a very comical way and in a very non-judgmental way.
When the doors opened, they were greeted by the unforgettable sight of McCartney and Fallon, in various comical tableaus.
His statement to the press after signing the bill on Wednesday closed with a comical demonstration of his anger.
Schärer portrays them larger than the men, who often appear as clowns or balding, comical figures with phallic noses.
But in Twin Peaks, the scenario is twisted to be broadly comical, even as Dougie's life is at stake.
"Join me in welcoming the biggest T. Stark fan of them all to Instagram!" he captioned the comical shot.
The public archives of OSI's debate over SSPL are at times informative and at times amusing, bordering on comical.
And almost right away there's a naked orgy scene and a long, comical close-up shot of a dick.
No, they're not following in the footsteps of Johnny Knoxville and causing some comical physical harm to one another.
The current round of name-calling may be comical, but this time it might end in a bitter gridlock.
The controversy grew to the point that Kylie herself had to address it in an almost-comical formal statement.
At the same time, there is something oddball and comical about them, which challenges commonplaces views of the heroic.
Peter thus stumbles through a series of comical encounters in his friendly neighborhood, where the crimes are decidedly grounded.
The anecdote, while quirky and comical at surface level, sheds light on the chaos that consumed Theranos' final stretch.
By episode three, each character's race and ethnicity are highlighted, and the comical breakdown of cultural nuances is hilarious.
There is something both comical and impressive about a time in which performance was a life-and-death matter.
He may be navigating a perplexing, comical course, but in the end, the show says, he's still No. 1.
It is comical to imagine Close isolated either there or in the center of the hip Miami art scene.
In a Twitter post on Wednesday, Cruz likened Trump's withdrawal to a comical retreat from a "Monty Python" movie.
After he said that, he did one of those comical eye rolls to show everyone that he was kidding.
Others can reveal the sometimes comical contortions that clerics go through to reconcile modernity with their understanding of religion.
We've listed the 10 heaviest players at the tournament alongside some of their most devastating (and sometimes comical) moments.
In the town of Tombstone, tourists pay to see a comical re-enactment of the shootout at O.K. Corral.
"To put Kendall Jenner in a protest simulating a Black Lives Movement iconic movement, it's comical almost," said Jackson.
Nevertheless, his value may be to give Mueller a tangential, if comical, Trump figure connected to the actual hacking.
The difference in tone and affect between the parts he read and the parts he freestyled was almost comical.
When Trump displays a lack of understanding of what goes on in a grocery store, it may seem comical.
Majd Zakout calls it "comical" that Palestinians are reacting so strongly to Mr. Netanyahu's use of the term annexation.
Death Is Elsewhere, like many of Kjartansson's works, is frankly romantic and emotional, but also ironic and quite comical.
However, this is immediately qualified and undermined by a comical voice of abjection: Basically, I'm hard up for humor.
But IRL, it usually doesn't involve a comical series of misunderstandings, pulse-pounding car chases, and romantic grand gestures.
"Bloomberg's memes are comical in the worst possible way," said Sarah Matthews, deputy press secretary for the Trump campaign.
There was a time — not too long ago — when Bitmojis were reserved for comical exchanges with your Snapchat besties.
The FCC's $350 million broadband map showcases how this results in a comical overstating of broadband speed and availability.
Breitbart got traffic off quasi-comical headlines; the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones screamed on his livestream like Sam Kinison.
As described in the complaint, Sloane carried out some of the more egregious -- and comical -- actions of the scam.
"I thought the juxtaposition of a longtime HIV patient with NCAA Division I athletes was quite comical," she said.
While that call was more comical, this latest example of Harlan&aposs ability was of great importance to viewers.
Much of the protest was more comical than fiery, as a Trump look-alike marched along with the crowd.
The severe weather caused comical sights, like a discarded Christmas tree blowing in the wind through the streets of Manhattan.
After a while, the wait times grew darkly comical, and the ER began to resemble an unruly after-school detention.
There comes a time in every hyped-up business trend's life cycle when the noise becomes so intense it's comical.
These long ribbons of teeth are both comical and monstrous, resembling the ominous-looking bullet belts of soldiers and terrorists.
The experience was presented as comical, a way for women to enjoy being together, but not really to get off.
The Destiny 2 live action trailer is officially out, and it's one of the most comical video game trailers ever.
To celebrate their 5-year dating anniversary in May 2016, Bennett shared a comical photo of the couple to Instagram.
The comical yet necessary situation came about when Rude realized she couldn't wade through the water with all her equipment.
In fact, since it hit the scene just over two years ago, the rumors have snowballed to near comical proportions.
The pair announced the gin would be available in Virgin's clubhouses and on board its aircraft with a comical video.
Still, their small size and vivid colors, like those of a troll doll, makes them seem more comical than fearful.
These negotiations were fruitless, and at times comical, but not for any lack of effort from Mr Trump's inner circle.
Meanwhile the hamburger button in the main app houses an almost comical amount of feature copies from other tech companies.
It was a Chinese announcer, after all, who christened him with his exalted, memorable, honorable (and slightly comical) fight name.
Meyers shared the great, comical adventure he and his wife went on when the baby unexpectedly arrived on Easter Sunday.
The most comical moments of the evening were provided by Mr Cruz, trying to get Mr Trump to shut up.
The mission is so blunt and brief that folks in front of me snickered at the comical escalation of violence.
Their three-way domestic charade is constantly in danger of coming undone in ways that are both comical and heartbreaking.
On one hand, there's something potentially comical about asking people to pay for the privilege of not looking at tweets.
Captain Kirk is a division head whose responsibilities include dealing with external crises that are variously comical, outlandish and harrowing.
This hypocrisy and disrespect for the law would be almost comical if the stories I've recounted here weren't common occurrences.
If Mr. Roth's Nixon is a raving madman, Guston's is an almost tragic figure, imprisoned in his own comical anatomy.
This kind of split between talent and aspiration can be sad or comical, depending on how much the artist suffers.
It was almost comical to see indie-rock royalty squeezed into the tiny storefront, CD racks pushed to the sides.
Gupta believed he was unfairly attacked by a fellow Indian American, something Bharara dismissed as "comical" in his own memoir.
Yet as outlined here, corporate influence has reached a point that might seem comical were patients' lives not being wrecked.
The mediocrity of the unremarkable plants and the forged orgies contained in the drawings create a comical circle of life.
Moreover, Mr. Trump's attempts to conceal the obvious with a rank, virtually comical explanation provide additional evidence of guilty intent.
Gally (Will Poulter), resurrected with an almost comical lack of fanfare, is the only character with a sense of humor.
There is something so hypocritical in Republican outrage that it would be comical if the issue were not so grave.
My father had to have a very comical but what for him was an annoyingly, unnecessarily difficult conversation with me.
In our nonstop, high-resolution, streaming age, the sketches look almost comical — and indeed, many dismissed it as a stunt.
Does it mean anything that they've reappeared in the most Twin Peaks-centered (and deadpan comical) hour since the fourth?
And that's all kind of comical, because Joker wasn't even the best movie, let alone superhero movie, of the year.
After a few comical attempts, his 12-year-old daughter Christina gives up teaching him how to throw a football.
Perhaps Trump's most enduring round of quasi-comical storytelling came at a campaign rally in Iowa on January 23, 2016.
Without a sense of disease agents, human attempts at a cure were misguided and appear comical to a modern observer.
The baseline barrage of privacy invasions you undergo just to get to your gate is comical in its authoritarian overreach.
"Since her memory is factual, there's no point in arguing it," Mr. Brown, also 64, said with a comical sigh.
Boston's defense was shaky throughout much of the game, but the most comical play did not result in a run.
One for "Masters of Sex" is a comical sequence of sexually suggestive but not explicit images, like an erupting champagne bottle.
It seems unlikely that his vast network will continue to view his brand of self-involvement as quite so comical now.
The next morning, Cibuls shared the story on Facebook, seeing the comical side now knowing there was no paranormal entity present.
One late-in-the-season episode is filled with so many comical bits, I couldn't stop smiling as I watched it.
"Gigantic playing cards, or paper clips used in a comical way by, let's say, a clown, freak me out," Jarrett says.
Francis' comical comment was caught during an episode of a Catholic TV2000 television program posted on YouTube, according to the Guardian.
But in the world of mega SUVs so big that it's comical, your only options come from General Motors and Ford.
The riveting (and comical) string of Snaps followed the DJ as he rode around on the water in search of land.
Imagine how comical it would be for a tech company to sell the same product for five years, let alone 43.
He waltzed out of his second imprisonment with an impunity that would be comical if it didn't have such serious consequences.
Paak's voice, whether sung or spit, is scratchy and mercurial; in someone less practiced, it might sound comical or affected, but .
The whole thing was absurd and would have been comical if the fate of an administration wasn't hanging in the balance.
The simplicity of these situations and the abundant intelligence of those who tend to muck them up can be downright comical.
Just for the sake of conversation, I asked two 5'4″ coworkers to try it on, and the wearable looked downright comical.
But Halloween's comical casualties are so timely and endearing that we can't help but honor this particular take on the trope.
So, as you might expect, they also combine state-of-the art resilient engineering and comical clown-car so-called security.
The situation is almost comical, as the group—now squatting in a suburban Illinois mall—detains Candace inside a L'Occitane store.
Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan took a more comical approach, but assured that Holland will always be special to the MCU.
Today they seem more comical than pornographic, yet there is something unsettling in them, a deeply personal undercurrent of Freudian pathos.
But then, after a few minutes, the warmth always fades, because there's something so exceptional about the moment it's almost comical.
The dads who throw comical tantrums, or who keep using kids as cannon fodder in an attempt to rule the galaxy.
It's kind of refreshing to see Upton getting real about the huge, even comical, discrepancy between fashion fantasy and everyday reality.
McCarthy's contribution is a comical caricature of women in the Wild West, an allusion to the industry that drives the city.
It is comical and cringe-inducing at times, like the close-up of someone peeing onto cacti (below), but always natural.
Like many things about the Trump campaign, this tendency has gotten increasingly comical as Trump continues to sink in the polls.
Whereas Obama often was guarded and serious, Booker is an extrovert whose unbridled enthusiasm and brimming energy can seem almost comical.
I can imagine these aberrant structures inhabiting a dystopian narrative, the comical outcome of late capitalism's market logic and environmental destruction.
For "The Overstory," I read over 120 books on trees — cultural, aesthetic, botanical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical, etc.
But when multiplied by the 311,127 cases alleged by the OAIC, it grows to the almost comical sum of $529 billion.
But Netflix's The Circle, for some strange, slightly comical reason, tries to make the audience think the contestants are in America.
The company has survived an almost comical number of scandals, lawsuits, regulatory challenges, protests, boycotts, and more — and it's still kicking.
Prokofiev's music is as wide-ranging as the story itself, careening from lush romanticism to crunchy modernism to comical sound effects.
"I mean, that was becoming comical because I couldn't understand: You're the president" and no one was firing her, Parnas said.
There was something comical in the contrast between their cool, inscrutable expressions and the boisterous young Americans who sat before them.
Holmes' deposition, released by Intelligence Committee Democrats on Monday night, included an almost comical depiction of the ambassador's call with Trump.
The insinuation that a bubble in subprime auto lending could take down the economy like the mortgage market did is comical.
All the Packers needed to secure a first-round bye was win what appeared to be a comical mismatch against Detroit.
Rebecca Rindler and Amos Berger met through the dating site OkCupid; his profile picture and comical fashion sense caught her attention.
In addition to their comical musings, the display includes a comment on each cartoon by a mathematician, scientist or other expert.
Despite many months of outreach before the election, the initial interactions between Mr. Trump's team and the Kremlin were almost comical.
There were so many comical elements to this, it was just, you couldn't believe some of the stuff you were reading.
Is it just Phone with a capital P, or is it the Palm Palm as its comical listing on Verizon's website suggests?
"It seemed quite comical to us that they were so deeply offended by the notion of being confused with LARPers," Heron explains.
The illustrative style kept a consistency and authenticity throughout all ten seasons and each storyline was comical, emotive, and entertaining to watch.
The first trailer for Dead to Me has arrived, and with it, a surprisingly comical take on the often messy grieving process.
Fallon also took comical issue with First Lady Melania Trump – who has said she wants to make cyberbullying one of her priorities.
The list of Pruitt's indiscretions quickly grew long, comical, and (eventually) embarrassing for the White House: He built a $763,000 phone booth.
We'll say this ... he did a great job at securing the leash around his ankle -- but after that it was totally comical.
"At first we thought this comical legal document was a parody," said Geragos and Glandian in a statement sent to BuzzFeed News.
At times these pictures are comical and surreal, but buried deep within every image is the dark, looming anticipation of nuclear war.
The second part of the throwback contains a less comical and "better" picture of one of her shark swimming partners in motion.
This went on for a number of weeks with the back and forth verging on the comical… Hubby: What ya doin' honey?
She chronicles her mix of reactions — bemusement, excitement, and, at times, comical frustration as she integrates the items into her daily routine.
With a special flair for the comical combined with a classical sensibility, artist Oliver Jeffers is a purveyor of fine art surprises.
Yes. Take this shitty company's free money, even if it's comical how little it's actually paying out for such an astronomical fuckup.
When it goes wrong, it's often pretty comical, but given that you never have to rely on it, that doesn't really matter.
However, if you've experienced the growth available by pushing yourself with someone else, the idea of working out alone seems somewhat comical.
There's little wonder why Australia's koalas keep getting compared to teddy bears, thanks to their beadlike eyes and big, slightly comical noses.
My continued deaths at the hands of a would-be ally was a comical reminder that Dark Souls 3 does not forget.
Last month, a 22-year-old woman took to Tumblr to share a comical solution to one of life's most important woes.
The piece goes through the math of California's housing shortage — and the comical sums of money it would take to fix it.
A mysterious, subtly comical image, it can be read as the soul trying to break free of the wrappings of material reality.
At a point, it became comical because the failures were so frequent and things we couldn't even have imagined would pop up.
So, this year, for once at least, protests about the severity of an Open golf course might seem more comical than caustic.
A theater review in some editions last Sunday about "The Forgotten Woman" misidentified the actor who delivered a comical critique of opera.
Vindman responded that the suggestion was "rather comical," that he did not entertain it and that he had reported it to superiors.
Each is slightly different, with different colored stockings, and lanky appendages that create both a comical and disturbing character to come upon.
Their interactions with the Mainers at Fryeburg are sometimes uncomfortable and sometimes comical, as efforts at cross-cultural communications tend to be.
What they offer instead is nearly claustrophobic access to another consciousness, working out psychological obsessions with verve, intelligence and often comical deflection.
That, combined with family loss, infidelity and health scares, offers plenty of comical yet achingly relatable material for the final six episodes.
The tweets inspired "So Sad Today," a book of personal essays that negotiated a comical, uneasy struggle with aging, sex and death.
The audacity of her plan propels the plot, but despite the outwardly comical circumstances, the developing relationship is serious from the start.
The characters in "The Seagull" are vain, sometimes miserable creatures, but they are also aware of the comical aspects of their existence.
Getting a story like this right requires a sense of the comical and the absurd along with the devastating, and Baumbach delivers.
It was hard to believe they were oncologists—the idea that they were supposed to make sick people feel better was comical.
If you follow any single, comical people looking for love on Twitter, you may have seen tweets like these over the years.
It's comical and poetic to hear Kimora discuss mining the brand's archives and finding designs that she would never let them wear.
Baltimore is favored by a comical margin at home, but there are enough players missing that the anticipated blowout may not happen.
Some are very comical and spot on, like [the artist] Alex Katz and Squidward or [the artist] John Baldessari and Papa Smurf.
Which means there will also be a villain and a comical sidekick, who steal many scenes on the way to their comeuppance.
This equipment looks a bit comical, but its presence is as much a declaration of ethical principles as an arresting visual joke.
Getting a story like this right requires a sense of the comical and the absurd along with the devastating — and Baumbach delivers.
It was comical and also unbelievable, as if above them the skies were busy with flying pigs, and no one had noticed.
But whether elegant or comical, all embody the same spirit of the artist's practice, representing sculpture as a site for everyday use.
"There were some comical things that first weekend, we sold so many socks," Mark, who is the company's co-founder and president, says.
If it sounds like sour grapes, it's not -- we're told it's more comical to Calvin, who also feels like he dodged a bullet.
As The Daily Mail reports, Madina is the daughter of Ilkhom Shokirov, a wealthy oil tycoon ("wealthy" is an almost comical understatement here).
The husband, whose name I've forgotten, was a comical weeping character in the telling, pitiable, and yet this implicit villain of systemic oppression.
Raines made a conscious choice to explore this challenging content with a comical lens and a touch of earnestness at the video's conclusion.
And let's be clear, Ferdinand Marcos, as comical as he was — and same thing with Imelda with their spending — was a brutal dictator.
In one comical scene, Negan punches the priest squarely in the face for having pulled a gun on him earlier in the episode.
Though many of his interactions with passengers are congenial or comical, with Gargac befriending his passengers, his online following can be less pleasant.
Gosling plays Holland March, a shambling widowed private eye who struggles with what seems to be a serious (if occasionally comical) drinking problem.
Before this comical cutie was the star of a hit show, he was just another flexing fella growing up in Auckland, New Zealand.
"It was, I suppose, again that line between comical and obscene," one person who witnessed Rush stripping naked in front of Stone, commented.
The images depict what classic Disney characters would likely be doing in today's modern world... and the results range from comical to  disturbing.
"I've always wanted to act and write, so after college, I moved to L.A.," says Strauss, a comical, bubbly Millennial living her dream.
To tote up the Protestant denominations discussed in Alec Ryrie's new book, " Protestants " (Viking), is almost comical, there are so many of them.
METROPOLITAN A theater review in some editions last Sunday about "The Forgotten Woman" misidentified the actor who delivered a comical critique of opera.
From a media perspective, things have gone from the usual bias against one side, to being outright comical if it wasn't so sad.
The President's tweets slamming CNN, the Times , NBC News, and other media organizations can be comical and weird, but they do serious harm.
By contrast, the raw words being leveled in the square are hurtful here, comical there, and very often at war with one another.
One man named Josh Butler reportedly took a more comical approach to job applications: He auctioned himself off on eBay for £16,000 ($21,000).
This was comical to Pakistanis and security experts: Saeed has lived openly in Pakistan, giving sermons and interviews and founding a political party.
The etymology of the term dates back to the use of comical cartoon strips inserted into American newspapers in the late 19th century.
For a long time, he was entertaining and unintentionally comical, but the longer he stays in the race, the less funny he is.
He's made a comical 50 percent of his threes and is starting to flash an ability to knock them down off the dribble.
And if Guardiola brings a few trophies to Manchester at the end of the season then this will just be a comical blip.
The latter two are as rude and comical as ever, while Dougal's been drinking the Jacobite lemonade, despite his brother's insistence on neutrality.
" His ease of delivery makes even offhand menace sound comical: "Body take a week to find/the cops gon' be like, 'Never mind.
Our situation would be comical if it weren't becoming so horrifically apparent that the school doesn't understand its own position in our community.
So the notion that this is somehow a serious scandal parallel to Moscow's work to overturn an American presidential election is just comical.
Now actors are playing versions of stories that we knew first as nonfiction, and we're seeing those stories through different and comical lenses.
Charlotte Moore's naturalistic production makes us care for everybody, no matter how vituperative, pigheaded or cartoonishly comical, and the cast is largely excellent.
She still misplaced words, or mixed them up in comical ways, but she also kept intact a kind of lyrical possession of them.
We've reached this comical — but politically necessary — place in which nonstraight, nonwhite, nonmale culture of all kinds has also been placed beyond reproach.
"There's this very funny, comical dance that happens between manager and chef because we're both doing two halves of the job," he said.
Viewed widely as a faintly comical adult novelty brand, its undies were adopted in the '90s by younger consumers as campy Halloween wear.
Images of Xi as Pooh started in 2013 as Chinese internet users shared the comical take on social media platforms such as Weibo.
Twice a week on her YouTube channel, Ms. Aina, 32, calls out such disparities, with a delivery that's conversational, comical and occasionally caustic.
Getting a story like this right requires a sense of the comical and the absurd along with the devastating — and Marriage Story delivers.
Now that we have closed out 2018, here's a look back at seven of our most surprising — and comical — corrections of the year.
But with lovely art that turns effortlessly surreal, that's all it takes to tell a clever, comical story of a truly mutual relationship.
Hoping to God John Oliver's comical dissertation resonates with the Congress that got us in this situation, along with suicidal tax incentive declarations.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The oldest extant Japanese animation tells the comical tale of a samurai who makes a bad purchase.
As they smiled for photos, Depp, 52, was seen reaching under Cohen's jacket and poking at his stomach and chest during the comical exchange.
In a comical scene he attempts to pay with a 5 dollar bill from the future, raising alarm and accusations from the store clerk.
I find it almost comical to see Bharara put on a straight face and present the outcome of strong-arm bullying as "voluntary" confession.
Bynes played a variety of comical characters on "The Amanda Show," from Courtney, who wore a signature oversized set of teeth and quirky outfits...
It's a comical shot of the artist, even with his deadpan stare, as there are baguettes on the table where his hands should be.
Daphne is one of the most overtly comical roles she's done in a while, and her performance here reminds us what we've been missing.
The contortions St. Louis and the State of Missouri put themselves through to keep the Rams would be comical if they weren't so sad.
It was kind of comical, because it was like being on a regular run, where she's like, What do you think I should do?
One panel is a comical lineup of the odd characters who once peopled the streets of Cork; witty paragraphs convey each person's defining eccentricity.
"Do you find something comical about my appearance when I'm plugged into my video game console?" asks the NEO GEO cartridge to Nelson Muntz.
The near-comical absurdity of white nationalist principles isn't lost on me, and it wasn't lost on Lee, either, when he made the film.
Fast-forward a quarter of a century, and the notion of universe-making—or 'cosmogenesis' as I dub it—seems less comical than ever.
Although photos of dogs in the leggings may be comical, Baronoff says that Walkee Paws are designed with safety and cleanliness as a priority.
Finally, there are Twitter's well-documented problems with the developer community and its almost comical inability to make money off its active user base.
He not only loathes the memory of Susan's husband but most men to boot, finding them boastful, oafish and predatory, both beastly and comical.
When you're dropped on the island, for example, the compy dinosaurs you encounter first are more comical than dangerous, even when they're attacking you.
Dwarven merchants Brok and Sindri operate the in-game store, and your frequently comical encounters with them break up the serious tone of things.
Yet it is comical to think that those of us with lesser rights are somehow infringing on those who have no fear of deportation.
Considering that almost half of America's 18-to-34-year-olds open Snapchat every day, it's almost certainly the desire for the casually comical.
The discourse, achingly knowing and bracingly comical, will ring familiar to fans of Amazon's "Catastrophe" and its gloriously sniping Sharon Horgan, this series's creator.
And it probably should have applied to the following laborious and comical international incident concerning a drone and Israel, Russia, and the United States.
Not everyone actually wants to read on such an enormous device, and documents not intended for that size can blow up to comical proportions.
YouTube's Content ID is the most expensive automated filter system of its kind, yet these kinds of stories are not just common, but comical.
Refracted through the protagonist's drug-addled consciousness (echoing the Nighttown chapter of Ulysses) life takes on a repulsively comical edge that makes its mark.
In between are countless comical and bizarre little incidents that will leave you smiling to yourself and thinking, "Only in New York ..." $25, amazon.
The results were sometimes comical -- due to online lag and syncing issues -- but isn't laughing with friends part of what karaoke is all about?
Ben Carson, with his ever-changing explanations for ordering a $31,000 dining set, cuts a comical figure as secretary of housing and urban development.
That being said, to be star material, an animal must do comical things, or other notable actions, and allow cameras to capture their moments.
"This is getting comical," Mr. Winfree, who recently left a job as an economic adviser to Mr. Trump, said in a post on Twitter.
As in life, weird or comical developments don't announce themselves before they happen: They just start happening, and your consciousness has to catch up.
The disparity between what designers tout as their sources of inspiration and what turns up on the runway can be either comical or grim.
Week after week in the months leading up to the election, SNL spoofed the increasingly comical real-life debates between Clinton and Donald Trump.
On Soccer LIVERPOOL, England — Jordan Henderson had just sent a shot, wild and high and a little comical, soaring into orbit above Arsenal's crossbar.
Along with earrings that depict an owl's comical eyebrows, she said, the mask rings added the playful dimension that characterizes much of her work.
A few users tweeted their comical reactions to having to interact with their younger extended family members until the social media services were restored.
His code, ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B, A, Start, has lived on for over three decades and continues to be a comical Easter egg in many games today.
Between his GIF-able expressions and his genuine and comical dialogue alike, he's emerged as a fan favorite for being both #futuresongoals and #friendgoals.
For New Year's Eve, the show promises to be "extra drunken," with champagne and a comical year in review focused on the presidential election.
North Carolina Republican Party spokeswoman Kami Mueller said the NCAA decision was "so absurd it's almost comical," according to a statement posted on Twitter.
For this former wide-traveling, subversively comical correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," that was just a prelude of raunch to come.
Watters and Gutfeld, whose brands are more casual, comical and self-deprecating than O'Reilly or Bolling, have also been given plenty of at-bats.
To get a story like this right requires a sense of the comical and the absurd along with the devastating — and Marriage Story delivers.
A comical depiction of poverty loses its controversy when placed in the context of worship, as the peasant strides toward a source of refuge.
On Thursday, the 50-foot white marble obelisk was defaced with none other than googly eyes, which added a comical flare to the statue.
"To have this image of him chasing her around the desk, it was just comical, and she told the story without rancor," Mixon recalled.
"As in life, weird or comical developments don't announce themselves before they happen: They just start happening, and your consciousness has to catch up."
As Politico staff writer Michael Kruse uncovered in an amusing tweet thread, Trump and Bush Sr. shared other, more comical moments over the years.
But at the same time, it would've been great to see Jane the Virgin play this realistic (and still comical) narrative out a bit longer.
When taking pictures, checking out a preview on the Smart Pen's 1-inch screen feels comical, but I'm sort of impressed it works at all.
Duterte's spokesman Peter Lavina likened the efforts to thwart his boss to "thieves dividing the loot" and said it was both comical, and "truly sickening".
As the montage catches us up to the point where we've been before — Deadpool was always great at time-hopping — there's a comical fast-forward.
Comical CCTV footage shows the man sneaking along a path at the side of a house before he reappears moments later carrying the garden ornament.
The mischievous Rose loves to broach the topic of Derek Jeter, Rodriguez's Yankees frenemy, and the camera immediately flips to Rodriguez for a comical grimace.
After Hudson, 37, and Kimmel watched a particularly comical Instagram video of Hawn drinking, and then spitting out water, the actress couldn't contain her laughter.
Adam Driver, Selena Gomez, and Bill Murray will star in The Dead Don't Die, a comical take on movies like Night of the Living Dead.
James Ensor, known for his expressionist and sometimes surreal paintings, offers a more comical — but still dark — vision of the fate that awaits us all.
But National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton called it "comical" to think the arrangements are an unfair competitive threat to cable or satellite companies.
In the first episode, for me, the jazz-flute attack was a little comical and irreverent, so that let the steam out a little bit.
It's almost comical when one considers that many of these same people — especially Silicon Valley leaders — can muster outrage over a memo about gender diversity.
Thanos might not look scary, but he proves that he deserves to be feared — and that he doesn't care whether people find his looks comical.
In the comical shot, Cumberbatch spiced things up with a bottle of Hotlanta Hot Sauce, while Downey sipped on a can of sparkling lemon water.
On the main stage, Africaine 808 mixes up comical percussion sounds, pianos, whistles, and beats that are just a tad too cheesy for my liking.
He goes through an interview process that is a pantomime (everyone is hired), then a factory medical assessment, which is even more comical and absurd.
Sometimes, congregants even put on comical renditions of the Purim story in performances known as "purim spiels" ("spiel" can mean "game" or "play" in Yiddish).
The whole incident is undeniably bizarre and almost comical, but it also shows how tense relations between Jordan and Israel have become in recent weeks.
Indeed, the rather comical debate even ensnared the attention of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who promised to address Google's emoji as a matter of urgency.
But the show refreshes the genre through a comical conceit: Erskine and Konkle, both 31-year-old comedians, also play their 13-year-old selves.
It's often pointed out that far-right forces have minimal public support—the National Corps even polled a comical 0.1 percent in one recent poll.
Early experiments were comical: Cover wired the family couch to shock his sister and her boyfriend as they were on the brink of making out.
The finalists compete in a comical and vaguely literary game aimed at determining a winner while exploring new ways to bring writing off the page.
Simionescu-Marin, sensing his point, proposed recording comical skits, which are often used to break up the continuous flow of beats on a rap album.
They tend to be labor intensive (Gus Fring's chicken franchise), occasionally they are comical (Skyler White's ditsy accountant act in Season 4 of "Breaking Bad").
It tiptoes around the prospect of greatness in a way that seems comical in retrospect — a reminder that no one was born a sure thing.
"The comical attempts to demonize Seattle in the 45th District race, I think, will be shown to have been a poor strategy," Mr. Constantine said.
Siamak Filizadeh's bizarre photos are so intricate that they appear photoshopped, but are in fact a meticulously produced tableaux of semi-comical, semi-uneasy scenes.
The sight of a 300-pound main across from him in the ring might have been frightening, comical, or so bizarre as to seem unreal.
Perhaps, though part of the kinetic charge of the Galway-based troupe's lively, comical "Godot" comes from the restlessly acrobatic nature of Mr. Monaghan's Gogo.
No matter how invincible they have seemed, they have managed to find slights to inspire them — often going to somewhat comical lengths to do so.
Then, one day, he falls down, and the film subtly shifts from a quietly comical character study to a delicate reflection on loneliness and mortality.
Payton James from Massachusetts thinks people should be spending time on more important matters: Personally, I think the controversy over the Starbucks cup is comical.
Both O. and I have jobs that require zero computer usage, so it's comical how little we use it compared to everyone else we know.
The most comical moment came moments before the teams took the field, when the Whalers' theme song, "Brass Bonanza," was blasted over the stadium loudspeakers.
" When asked about Trump removing his invitation to the Warriors, Popovich said he thought "it was comical" since Golden State wasn't "going to go anyway.
The disproportion between their personal feelings and the wanton destruction of real estate and innocent life is both comical and horrific, and also oddly persuasive.
Like Trump's statements, their quasi-comical memeing and name-calling was so destabilizing, flipping between serious and silly, that it warped the boundaries of discourse.
In 21998, Mr. Barris launched a second show, "The Newlywed Game," with four recently married couples who answered comical and intimate questions about their partners.
Inconvenient at times, this rule was even comical when I would open and shut a computer each time my kids entered and left a room.
Since "Jane Got a Gun" was shot, in 2013, it has become a byword for the thousand comical shocks that the industry is heir to.
I know small phones aren't super popular, but it's almost comical at how little effort companies put into making a modestly-sized devices with competent specs.
He is one of the handful who lives on the same floor as fellow Viners in Hollywood and frequently collaborates with them on short, comical videos.
"We were very cognizant as we were writing and shooting it that the jokes should always be coming from someone's extreme and comical overconfidence," Silverstein said.
Some of these may seem comical to 21st-century eyes: a swarm of bees, for instance, resembles an orderly line of shuttlecocks streaming into their hives.
The word "hangover" doesn't appear in writing further back than around 1902, in a very off-hand, comical reference in a book called The Absurd Dictionary.
Sitting alongside the co-hosts of the afternoon talk show, Kelly shared a comical story about when she helped put on her mother's "tights," a.k.a. Spanx.
Delivery services attempt to curb this by leaving packages with neighbors, at your back door, or by attempting to conceal the package, sometimes with comical results.
It's the small things, the unexpected and unintentional relationships between objects or people that spark the best paintings, the small tragedies that end up being comical.
Their most recent project, Castro VS Fiji, showcases the best of what the two have to offer, which is angry, comical, and often times childish rap.
It's an incredible reversal of fortune and a thrill to watch although in moments it seems like an oddly comical way to reintroduce such a character.
Fifty-fifty indecisive split decision between two comical, narcissistic, hateful, opportunists kind of shows who we are, and that we don't really know what we want.
And "for your consideration" mailers have reached comical proportions, with Netflix sending out a package to Emmy voters so hefty that it could crush a toe.
Other top officers had quit or were heading for the door under the fumbling, near-comical administration of Hayden's predecessor, Porter Goss, a former Republican congressman.
"Guerrero's conduct was so blatant, it would be comical if he weren't committing a serious narcotics crime," special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan told the Daily News.
Without massaging the leaves beforehand, you'll end up chewing for a comical (or more likely annoying) amount of time, plus the kale will taste quite bitter.
Her first words on that fateful third outing: "I've got a cease-and-desist order about this show, so I can't do it," a comical exaggeration.
The antiquated but deeply held sexism forming the basis of Mignini's beliefs would almost be comical, if the results of his biases hadn't proven so disastrous.
Other elements will also keep young listeners intrigued, like a humorous script by Craig Shemin and appearances by the comical character Professor Treblemaker and Beethoven himself.
Even as the plot takes some familiar turns — comical detours and a big tragic swerve — Ms. Akhavan steers away from cliché, and the cast avoids caricature.
There's a kind of deadpan humor throughout — the sheet ghost is comical, and there's no getting around it — that complicates the film and rewards a rewatch.
Not surprisingly, those House members were all Southern representatives beholden to a very specific (and almost comical) special interest group that seeks to enrich catfish farmers.
What we have here, in other words, is the spectacle, at once touching and comical, of good liberals falling over themselves to prove their moral credentials.
This sounds almost comical now: My boss directed me to fund a theatrical production intended to persuade warring Sunnis and Shiites to stop killing one another.
Beribboned, hooked, horned, it grew to comical size, its practical function outstripped by the symbolic one of advertising what it was intended to protect or conceal.
"I'm law enforcement too" he says to the agents who are investigating him as a potential terrorist, with an earnestness that is both comical and pathetic.
Greg (Nicholas Braun) telling Tom that Nazis are, indeed, "the worst" paints a horribly comical picture of these people's lack of any sort of moral integrity.
What's more, despite their many faults — from comical self-regard to a habit of ignoring regulations found to be inconvenient — tech executives are an optimistic bunch.
And, especially after the publication in 21991 of his "Fornicon," a book of comical but startling sexual imagery, he found himself unwelcome in children's-book circles.
There&aposs nothing quite as comical and unfortunate as having used a toilet, only to realize too late that — uh oh — there&aposs no toilet paper.
And the results are comical: according to current FCC logic, if a single home in a census tract has broadband, the entire neighborhood is declared served.
It's kind of comical in retrospect — the dozens of pink and blue mardi gras beads that are still sitting in the Amazon box by the front door.
The idea of Mueller as a kind of deus ex machina capable of rescuing the American people from the Trump presidency has taken on almost comical proportions.
Falco's annoyed that their friend might be dead, which is pretty funny, and Peppy's "Don't be dead, Slip," really adds to the comical bleakness of the situation.
" Jones' remarks may have been comical at times, but she it very clear that to anyone out there "scared and confused just know that you're not alone.
The Carlson book looks at the strange, almost comical visit by Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in the 1950s at the beginning of the Cold War.
The oddly comical line has become something of a fan favorite since "The Queen's Justice" aired, inspiring memes and jokes about everything from cooking to Grey's Anatomy.
The declaration is comical on the surface, with its references to the International Criminal Court's foundational "Rome Statute" and Section 1-308 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Surreal, yet comical at turns, the pieces sometimes hint at the absurdity of humanity—they way we all are simply bodies crowded together in the same space.
Mr Trump's aides have meanwhile put up such a valiant but hapless defence of it that, if the issue were not so serious, it would be comical.
Negan has always been such a comical bad guy, capable of only extremes, that I stopped caring ages ago about what did or didn't happen to him.
William James, among others, thought it all a bit extreme, even comical, but Nordau and his views would find an audience; it would just take some time.
It's frenzied and chaotic as plotlines are converging, and everything begins to feel a bit like a madcap farce that would be depressing if it weren't comical.
The company said kiss was a "peck on the lips" during a comical scene in the musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's 19th century novel set in Paris.
If comical little garden men strike your fancy, take a walk along the streets and say hello to the likes of Greg Gnoman and The Rolling Gnomes.
You can enter an excuse that ranges from the comical (you've just dropped serious money on an improv class) to the tone-deaf (this isn't an issue).
The combined wealth of just some of these players is not only astronomical, but seems almost comical when compared to the increasing struggles of America's working class.
As soon as his brush strokes began to clump into shapes, fidgeting, incipiently comical suggestions of people, places, things, relationships and feelings began to infiltrate his pictures.
With an Islamophobe sitting in the Oval Office, this year's invitation to the Ramadan White House iftar seems more like a comical afterthought than an annual tradition.
The absurdity of all of this would be comical if what Code Pink was advocating for was not so destructive and at such a terrible human cost.
Trump's very first press conference brought forth the comical and scary specter of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accusing the media of "lying" about crowd size.
An Elvira-like figure appears in just about all of them, pragmatic, comical, full of good sense, though some of these incarnations are more fictional than others.
The frenzy on Capitol Hill over a smattering of Russian advertisements would be comical except that most of the American media has jumped on the hysteria bandwagon.
I don't wanna make this a comical thing, because I do think a lot of technology innovation has happened in that industry and it's often been ignored.
The video was comical to media #insiders because it is what everyone already does, except most digital media companies hold tightly to the humanity in the user.
It is an anomaly so endlessly comical that the very length of its humor pierces the bounds of the mind and touches the rim of mystery itself.
If her reputation lingers, it is thanks to the almost comical breadth of those accomplishments, and to her grappling with issues that continue to bedevil us today.
Comical Funnies was a collaborative effort between me and the cartoonists behind Punk Magazine: John Holmstrom, Bruce Carleton, and Ken Weiner, as well as J. D. King.
The fight went to a decision, and Rittidet was deducted a point for humping his opponent in a comical way after throwing him down in the clinch.
Drafted in comical disproportion to the architectural structures around them, long-limbed neighbors lean ladders against homes topped with imperfect rows of purple and black roof slats.
The effect wasn't maddening, as it perhaps would be in what one would consider a tastefully appointed home, but comical — facetious and playful like its surrounding environment.
The biggest difference for the average person is the comical number of notifications you receive when visiting a website or signing up for a new online service.
Judge's first-half power surge and the almost comical distance many of his shots have traveled demanded some better metric that could stand in for exclamation points.
While it remains to be seen whether Jenner will end up in one of the singer's hit songs, she's enjoying the comical moment for the time being.
I did this piece called 'The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,' because it went back to how black people were thought of as comical, or caricatures, or animals.
I did this piece called 'The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,' because it went back to how black people were thought of as comical, or caricatures, or animals.
She paused to post some spindly jellyfish on her Instagram story because the background music was so comical (Steve Vai-like shredding), although she found them gross.
As Warren continues her fusillade against Trump, it is comical to watch the befuddled GOP nominee reduced to nothing more than repeatedly and lamely calling her Pocahontas.
At the beginning of the party, Robinson opens up the space for performances and sexual demonstrations, ranging from typical kink activities like flogging to more comical ones.
"Four Lions is a satire that exaggerates current events to comical effect but also to satirize what we see in real-life in the UK," Choudry said.
Things took an almost comical turn last week when the messaging app LINE removed LGBT-themed emojis from its store, citing complaints from its 30 million Indonesian users.
While Malaponti's track is described on AudioJungle as a "short, comical piece," its ominous tone has the potential to trigger negativity and anxiety when paired with violent imagery.
Over the past month, Trump has been mentioned by name on five companies' earnings calls, in contexts that range from the opportunistic, to the blase, to the comical.
And while Boyega took a comical route to celebrate the big day, Ridley, 24, went for a more sentimental post, sharing a series of photos from the film.
As I've written before, it's more fun to watch people play horror games like that than playing them yourself, and Jurassic's comical yelp shows exactly why that is.
Arsenal, the last of the big four, remains a comparatively thrifty Arsene Wenger production, but all its panache is offset by an almost comical tendency toward self-destruction.
Regardless of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi's titles—and to the comical dismay of corporate, establishment Democrats—Bernie Sanders has become the defacto leader of the Democratic Party.
The video's uploader, Os Três, offers some insight on the comical outburst, noting Ronaldo's reaction was fueled by his disdain for the 24-hour Portugese news channel CMTV.
The wedding cake featured a comical topper depicting the bride dragging her groom to the alter alongside a football helmut featuring his beloved team's logo, the Buffalo Bills.
I can mix it up... If it visually works and the resulting effect is comical, maybe it's because we all use shortcuts and stereotypes embedded in our heads.
Mike Caplan, a weatherman on Fox 32 Chicago and steadfast Cubs fan, reported a comical forecast following the team's unlikely victory that included the temperature listing for hell.
" Geragos and Glandian, Smollett's attorneys, called the lawsuit "comical" and a "desperate attempt for them to stay relevant and further profit from an attack they admit they perpetrated.
"I can understand why, because when they see a character that's purely comical, and purely for the children, they felt probably a bit condescended to," he tells Stangroom.
At far left is a cluttered desk where almost comical apparatchiks (Robert Ian Mackenzie and Michael Lewis), overseen by a K.G.B. officer (Kate Konigisor), monitor Akhmatova (Ellen McLaughlin).
However, the humor sours when you realize that this comical ploy is also a strategy the Republican Party uses in its outreach to black and moderate white voters.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Santa Clarita Diet both rely on strong, bizarre female protagonists trying to reclaim life after tragedy, heightened comical circumstances, and an excellent supporting cast.
Likewise, Belott's puffs are made from the stuff inside pillows, but rather than offer us a place to rest our heads he makes them alien, comical, and bizarre.
To a comical extent, top Republicans willed themselves invisible when I reached out to them for this article, fearing, not incorrectly, that the conversation would turn to Trump.
I think part of it is that he is already somewhat comical and broad, which can make Bad Lip Reading a bit less effective from where I'm sitting.
John Terry's, a year later, was just comical: Terry, Chelsea's captain, steered his knee into Alexis Sanchez's back, with neither the ball nor an explanation immediately at hand.
"I thought it to be so comical and absurd," said Katherine Salnek, a Canadian art director who's worked as a prop master on commercials and a feature film.
But some dissipation of intensity could also be ascribed to the outdoor setting and the quizzical looks of passers-by and the wary, semi-comical retreat of schoolchildren.
The absurdity of the claim was comical, but the lengths to which Djokovic had to battle the almost blanket support for his adored Swiss opponent was no joke.
Meanwhile, his architect father labors away on a drawing — accompanied by a comical smooth jazz score — having to reheat his coffee every time his son interrupts his work.
As the individually recorded voices merge and the men variously dance, sway or tear up, the reflection on aging masculinity and super fandom is both comical and moving.
Matter The 153-million-year-old fossil is both fearsome and comical: a long-beaked penguin that stood 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed about 220 pounds.
There is something a little comical about women baring their breasts for bovine liberation, sure, but there is also something inspiring about their moral clarity and laser focus.
That would avert the comical possibility of American astronauts landing on the moon and just looking out the windows without any garments they could wear to step outside.
Dederer's comical, erratic storytelling is nuanced and unpredictable, dwelling on the recklessness of youth without ever selling short the courage and daring it took to be so reckless.
Bryant volunteered to go on a beer run and invited Fallon to join, leading to a comical misadventure that would become a story they&aposd share for years.
Such is the comical and sometimes philosophical nature of many of the works on display in this exhibition, "Not in So Many Words," on view until May 10.
On the other hand, it is so far beyond the bounds of what the average player might expect to see in the game that it is immediately comical.
Musk showed off an animation of the Tesla Semi in a race against a traditional diesel truck, and the wait for the diesel truck to finish became comical.
I really buy into the Illuminati New World Order—some kind of global elite thing—in a kind of comical way, not as serious as, say, Alex Jones.
Some are even giving interviews to journalists, a big change from the "no comment" mantra they practiced to almost comical extremes, while another has a reported book deal.
There also appears to be some other goodies thrown in, including comical one-off skins for Torbjörn and Bastion and more than 100 new poses, sprays, and other collectibles.
The project was typical Rubin, in that it involved throwing an almost comical amount of money, energy, and engineering talent at a hobby, just for the fun of it.
Add to that training in hopes of placing at the Olympic trials – and a husband gunning for the same goal – and it just becomes "comical," says runner Stephanie Bruce.
When inceptor Ryan Murphy created a comical caricature of white feminism with Sarah Paulson's character, Ally, I had a feeling that there was going to be a Black counterpart.
The jokes made in Becks about lesbians and general gayness are either self-referential or comical moments in which the straight people around Becks attempt to relate to her.
Coy, comical and completely crazed, she outshines everyone in the DC universe, and Margot Robbie, who plays her in 'Squad,' expertly occupies every naughty niche in her convoluted psyche.
Aniston, curious about the comical lip-locking, proceeds to ask DeGeneres — who has been married to Portia de Rossi for 11 years — several questions about the kiss with Stern.
In YC's initial blog post, Altman and Adora Cheung, a YC Partner tasked with initiating New City efforts, included an almost comical footnote addressing this potential criticism head on.
As soccer endures its own head-spinning corruption scandal, it has become comical to consider who might reform the organization as president when Sepp Blatter's reign ends next month.
" In a comical twist, DeGeneres asked Wahlberg if his dealership sold Zambonis, to which he jokingly said, "Due to the high demand, we are currently sold out of Zambonis.
The problem with Trump is not just the specific things he says but the casual way in which he says them and the comical "logic" that ties them together.
The reason is that it was all in Garry's delivery: His minimal responses in his thick Bronx accent -- his use of his accent was what made him so comical.
As Nadal hurtled to a 4-63 lead in the first set, Sousa appeared to have adopted some Larcher de Brito tactics by producing a couple of comical grunts.
So they ensure that their physical gestures are common but also grossly exaggerated: If a relatable characteristic such as a tear is present, it's depicted as flat and comical.
Dying to snake spit, or falling from a great height to bounce off an ice platform, or being killed by a fly-barfing mummy are all comical and strange.
"Rubio's Donald dance would be comical if it didn't involve handing over our country's national security to an unhinged bigot," Murphy campaign manager Josh Wolf said in a statement.
Alex Robert Ross, Alex G Is All Grown Up On his new album, Goths, [John] Darnielle uses memories from [his "goth" phase] to construct vividly poignant and comical tales.
The Russia thing is comical because it won't go away," the "Saturday Night Live" alum told Mediaite on Thursday when asked what he makes "of all this Russia business.
I quickly learned that the idea of moving from living paycheck to paycheck to having six months of earnings saved in the bank was so implausible, it was comical.
According to a new comical video from Netflix, exclusively debuting on Mashable (above), the reboot of the popular '80s cartoon has a growing following of "brotrons," or adult superfans.
In a comical bit of allusion, the "Fresh" dance is a rendition of Alfonso Ribeiro's infamous "Carlton dance" performed on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air twenty years before.
Early Thursday, before the pair hit the party, Grande posted a comical Instagram video of Davidson (who also has multiple Harry Potter tattoos!) bantering with her about the character.
"There is something comical about dumping this horrendous little English hotel in slightly swell surroundings," Mr. Cleese said in a 2015 interview with the Torquay newspaper, The Herald Express.
Frequent hot showers are such a hallmark of the disease that Jeff Lapoint, a toxicologist at Kaiser Permanente San Diego, conducted his own brilliantly insightful yet comical medical study.
It's crowded with noble, villainous and comical characters: police spies and magistrates; radical firebrands and anxious liberals; pompous officials and plain-spoken workers; servants, tradesman, gossips, thugs and children.
The chance to make history again has led to a fascinating dynamic in which the candidates have engaged in a sometimes comical arms race to brandish their diversity qualifications.
"We acknowledged the action was intended to be light-hearted and comical and there was no sense that the children were in danger," the ASA said in its decision.
That's no small feat, considering how much of the character is built on distinctive vocal tics and a sing-song tone that manages to be both comical and ominous.
The move proved prophetic as over the next three minutes of play, Cleveland outscored Golden State 10-5, hitting a few comical 3-pointers and regaining their momentum entirely.
Shouldn't Penguin and Barnes & Noble work on the inclusion of more writers, editors, and book reviewers of color instead of investing their resources in this tame, almost comical gesture?
"The published numbers speculating about our subscription and ad revenue have so underestimated the reality that it's comical," The Post's chief revenue officer, Jed Hartman, told me this week.
Taking a Bible signed by President Reagan and a cake shaped in the form of a key to Tehran may have been comical, but it was not a crime.
In a now absurd and comical twist of irony, Alexander Hamilton famously deemed this to be the "least dangerous" of all the branches when the Constitution was being written.
He saunters in midway through as the Dauphin of France, sporting an insolent smirk and spitting florid insults in a French accent so thick it borders on the comical.
It's at once comical, excruciating and revelatory of the characters' lifelong relationship — and it achieves this all through a phone call, one of whose participants we can't even see.
Election isn't exactly a docudrama either, but while its characters are also comical (and rooted in stereotypes), the movie is predominantly about the daily grind of middle-class existence.
The list was alternately depressing and comical: a combination of cheapjack scams to boost politicians' pay and hilariously eccentric bills to the public for things that were, frankly, weird.
I find it very comical and very funny, but also very true: You can love someone very much and think you know them well, but actually not know them.
In fact, there's a near comical competition among columnists to establish who can most rubbish the version emerging in the international media covering the story from Turkey and elsewhere.
Bookended by one photograph of a dresser and one of a wall of photos of Taylor and her former husband, Richard Burton, the deer become a random, comical puzzle.
But the refreshing irreverence toward calcified pieties of high art and culture that would drive all their subsequent efforts was succinctly embodied in these sweetly comical and deceptively unassuming pictures.
But Hillary today was kind of comical in that here she is talking about friendship with Russia, but as you mentioned, she is the one who pushed the reset button.
A former journalist and mayor of London known for often outlandish comments and comical behavior, Johnson gained oversight of the spy service upon his appointment as foreign secretary in July.
It's cheery to a near-comical degree, but a reminder that all the fantasy and phantasm of Bowie's long career was a cloak for these special moments of unrestrained joy.
"Donald Judd" has "JUDD" in such big, macho block letters it's almost comical; "Fuck You" even mimics the globs of caught ink in the scrawled handwriting on the magazine's cover.
Whether it's Cruise, Pre-Fall, or the comical Pre-Pre-Fall, it seems like every time you turn around there's yet another brand new collection to feast your eyes upon.
The Teens Who Post the Same Thing Every Day on Instagram Earlier this week Alyssa Bereznak tweeted a comical set of Instagram accounts that post the same picture every day.
Working with a smooth, precise touch on square or nearly square medium-size canvases, he systematically plays with basic conventions of Modernist design to optically invigorating and subtly comical effect.
Others, who also recently discovered the joy that Scream Go Hero can bring to their lives, uploaded comical videos of themselves straight up shrieking, singing, and moaning into their phones.
But in a few years, Kim — the seemingly comical despot with voluminous hair, a taste for cognac, movies and basketball (remember Dennis Rodman?) — is not necessarily a neophyte, if impetuous.
Then there's a comical lamp with a fuel chamber shaped like a Southeast Asian man, who hovers in the air, attached to chains — a design borrowed from the ancient Mediterranean.
He exists as a steroid era sideshow these days, a periodically entertaining stream-of-consciousness Twitter presence (and former VICE columnist) rife with semi-ironic malapropisms and comical self-regard.
" Added CNN White House correspondent Kaitlin Collins: "Is it supposed to be comical that the former White House spokesman is now tacitly admitting that he lied to the American people?
You see, he felt quite honestly, that the straighter Fred character would be a more interesting and a fun acting job ... and Shaggy was too much of a comical role.
But on Wednesday, Neon released the darkly comical biopic's first full trailer—and from the look of it, I, Tonya is going to live up to its early rave reviews.
We are supposed to cringe when Chuck and Axe collide and speak to each other like cocksure generals preparing for battle; their swagger and hyperbole are meant to be comical.
Yahoo spent a comical amount in 2013 on an app called Summly that barely even worked in order to make its News Digest app, which closed for good last year.
She is typically upbeat and comical in her social media posts, though this low moment didn't stop her more than 1.8 million followers from rallying around her all the same.
It first grabbed me when I read a scene where my character comes home like shown in the trailer, and he beats up his car in the most comical way.
Oddly enough, I also started Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's Sex Criminals, a Coen-esque crime story about two young lovers who embark on a hapless, comical life of crime.
Count Olaf's villainy is mostly comical, but sometimes downright disturbing (spoiler: an early plot involves him trying to marry a 14-year-old) in a way that's hard to shake.
The company's website has an almost comical X-ray diagram of the US-1's battery makeup showcasing a design that just looks like a big "X" of battery cells.
With lyrics written to the tune of well-known melodies, a snaps song is an often comical nod to drinking and traditional Swedish foods, and to celebration and its aftermath.
For a comical second or two—had anybody had a pair of infrared goggles, my expression must have been priceless—I tried to fathom what this cryptic request might mean.
Wangs in real life are so often a symbol of power and dominance, so when they're depicted as these comical little wiggle-boys, it takes away some of their authority.
And there is an almost comical contrast in their sizes, the 6-foot 7-inch, 265-pound Judge towering more than a foot above the 5-6, 53-pound Altuve.
And then we're told via end credits that Freddie died — a move that seems so modeled on the ending of the satirical rock biopic Walk Hard that it seems comical.
This is a comical mismatch in talent, but with Cleveland in disarray thanks to the firing of Coach Hue Jackson, it is impossible to predict how the Browns will react.
The Egyptian-American family's interactions and community will look familiar to many people from immigrant families, including controversial yet comical conversations about school and relationships (sometimes featuring a racist uncle).
Diving through hoops at increasing heights, they're comical and impressive — and it's charming somehow that Prancer (Jinge Wang), never the starriest member of Santa's team, is the best of all.
The Milams were embarrassed but grateful Milam said that while they were embarrassed by the comical false alarm, they are thankful for the police officers' quick response and good humor.
The answers are sometimes comical — Slim's attempt to rob a gas station, for example — sometimes terrifying, and sometimes both at once, and they don't emerge in simple black and white.
The Blacksonian has one pivotal conceit, one metaphorical device that you need to embrace despite its hokiness, despite its comical proximity to a set of stairs, and it's the elevator.
She insisted that he dance "Courtesan and Crone," a semi-comical striptease about a woman's horror at her aging, a solo that no one but Ms. Halprin has performed before.
Coming just after Mr. Trump denounced the hip-hop hit "Hamilton" as "overrated," the news that his right-hand man had scripted a hip-hop statesman himself felt almost comical.
"It's truly stunning, it's almost comical," said Jeffrey J. Williams, an English professor at Carnegie-Mellon University who has written about economic inequality in American higher education, of Singer's operation.
Right now, I'm hellbent on discovering that the Giganotosaurus had a big red circle for a nose and made comical squeaky noises as it walked like a fucking dumbass dog toy.
Politics, when they appear — a portrait of Mussolini in a country town, a comical and bickering pair of ancient Italian lefties — are something we glance off to return to our boys.
The two even participated in a comical musical number together to open Fox's presentation at the theater owner conference.. This isn't the first time the two have sparred on social media.
What had seemed so large at first now had become a new norm, this harassment for being seen as a woman: sometimes comical, sometimes annoying, always a bit unnerving, sometimes terrifying.
And the power bricks — yes, there are two of them, each individually massive — are made even more comical when placed together in the custom rubber enclosure that comes with the laptop.
The terms McGregor uses to describe full-out effort are "wide" and "fat", which is comical given the extreme slenderness of Royal Ballet dancers in general, and Ms Lamb in particular.
As a girl who unashamedly runs around in mismatched layers and bunny ears (she tells Sophia they put her in touch with her spirit animal), she presents a potentially comical figure.
And then last month, in a comical final note to the entire affair, Twitter announced that it was abandoning the verification project indefinitely because it was busy working on other things.
Over the past two years I have experienced annoyance, confusion, pity, sadness, and even comical disappointment watching Kim Kardashian's husband transform into one of the most divisive figures in popular culture.
Yet, Vanity Fair reports that the two rose to the challenge and managed to have a meaningful – and dare we say even comical – discussion that surely resonated with everyone in attendance.
Or maybe instead, they do absolutely nothing, waiting patiently while you parry nothing but thin air, leaving yourself completely exposed, and now you're the one gushing a comical amount of blood.
These days, she's one of those people she lampooned all those years ago; her use of Vegenaise and nutritional yeast is now almost comical in its juxtaposition to her past life.
"It was something almost comical to hear Washington politicians say they didn't want Puerto Rican politicians involved in electrical power, while they themselves want to get into it," said Rivera Schatz.
On the other hand, if my friend falls down in a comical way, I might laugh, but then I would help them stand up and make sure that they are okay.
"The precision of the president's new Afghanistan Troop Cap would be comical were its consequences not so tragic for our mission and military readiness," Thornberry said in a written statement Wednesday.
She sang, rapped and toasted, reggae style, with a voice that was often tart and sassy; it could also be a cutting rasp, an airborne soprano or an insistently comical squeak.
Mr. Malick's film is not especially comical, and he is surely one of the least Jewish directors in the annals of American cinema, but his ending has a similarly startling effect.
Any player of PUBG's four-person squad mode will tell you that they laugh far more often than they cry; it's a joyous, comical, strange experience every minute of every game.
The Trump campaign "has gone from frankly something that was entertaining, comical, and has devolved into something that is frankly scary," said Javier Palomarez, the chamber president and chief executive officer.
Street art often serves up political messages, but not so for the usually comical Hanksy, who first went viral for reimagining Banksy's iconic works with Tom Hanks' face superimposed on them.
It's a situation so comical it ended up creating a popular meme this off-season, thanks to McCollum's earnest reply to a woman's criticism: He'll keep trying, and so will Lillard.
That aside, as someone who grew up among Korean beauty products, I find the world's sudden fascination with Korean skin care, and its now-famous 12-step regimen, to be comical.
Others have entered the world of sports comedy in recent years, like YouTube's Da Kid Gowie and Jesse Jones, better known as "Filayyyy," who is known for his comical voice-overs.
There is something comical about Mill's self-implosion; it's as if he had spent years looking forward to a sailing trip only to suddenly realize, upon embarkation, that he hated boats.
He contributed quotable, often comical guest verses to songs by Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, and released his debut album, "Based on a T.R.U. Story" with Def Jam Recordings in 22.
Mina wrestling with Sterling there was comical, like a dad who stumbled into a U14 practice but darn sure wasn't going to let his kid turn on him in the middle.
Obama might have pulled the economy back from the brink, he might have fended off a comical plutocrat in Mitt Romney in 2012, he might have given millions more people healthcare.
And then, to make things stranger, populate the rest of the scene with some Edward Gorey-style ghosts, skittering across the landscape — at once menacing, comical and slightly tongue-in-cheek.
So much of the show should have been comical and outlandish, but it stuck every landing because of heartfelt performances and sincere, painstaking writing from Jennie Snyder Urman and her team.
Scamander, joined by comical no-maj, or non-magical person, Kowalski (Dan Fogler), and ambitious witch, Tina (Katherine Waterston), travels throughout the city, from Macy's Department Store to goblin-owned speakeasies.
That, combined with his almost comical frugality (I already had been warned I would need to find the cheapest cremation place in New York) had often threatened to sink our marriage.
But with that knowledge, it's a riveting performance, as Eve is tasked with physically changing her body language and expressions in a way that comes off as threatening rather than comical.
During these games, there developed a somewhat comical routine: Greg Monroe hops off the bench midway through the first and third quarters, and Maker is never to be heard from again.
There Are Cadavers The people disappear from mysterious and almost comical reasons, a son has been "drafted," a girl has a boyfriend in the army, but the truth is the truth.
Before this comical cutie was walking down a runway or acting for the big screen, she was just another made up kid clowning around while growing up in Asheville, North Carolina.
The appalling becomes excusable, the heinous becomes debatable, the outrageous becomes comical, lies become fibs, spite becomes banal, and hymns to American might become cause for giddy chants of national greatness.
The Google Pixel 3 XL has had a truly comical amount of leaks to date, but for the most part its younger, smaller brother has been a bit a more camera-shy.
MACCALLUM: I mean, I found this comment really almost comical from a Democratic fund-raiser who, you know, was making the argument, this is the second call for it that we have.
Tseng incorporates a comical and wildly diverse number of real-world elements to The Founder that clash with the cartoony, cone-shaped avatars that slave away in a small simulated office space.
As it turns out, that comical aspect wasn't lost on the Game of Thrones team, who in a recent edition of The Game Revealed explained what made shooting the scene so entertaining.
Then there's "Near Algodones," in which James Franco plays an outlaw who robs a bank and gets punished for it in a fashion that gets dragged out so long it becomes comical.
I found that simple, non-verbal exchange of gazes impactful in a way few digital experiences are — and one that would be almost comical if attempted with AR through a smartphone screen.
To fans of experimental music, James' face, altered to exaggerate his smile, is the equivalent of Deadmau5's giant rodent helmet—comical, over-the-top, a symbol of what you're gonna get.
She's clearly vulnerable to criticism both personal and political, her CFPB triumph may soon be a relic of the Obama era, and her phony grandstanding is more comical than it is powerful.
If I shame my children for saying it then I am proving that it is an insulting word and I continue the stigma that being fat is unworthy, gross, comical and undesirable.
The album, which followed the comical hit "Love Stinks," also included the title track and "Centerfold," which was No. 1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 list, the group said.
Smash players immediately jumped into the stage builder and have been sharing their custom creations online, some of them being clever and impressively detailed battle arenas, others being more comical than practical.
What was probably more awkward (and somewhat comical) was that at one point Garcia was the one to get between his father and his opponent to prevent the two from trading blows.
His zeal for problem solving and organization, his indefatigable good cheer in the face of adversity, and his almost maternal pride in the company are sweet, pathetic and comical all at once.
A wry sendup of the "Snow White" fairy tale by Kevin Del Aguila and Eli Bolin, who did Theatreworks's first Skippyjon adaptation, this show is every bit as clever, comical and boisterous.
At its extreme, that approach is expressed in what Mr. Greene called "comical, silly" material like "Stink Thumb," which derives its title from Ana's fascination with thumb-sucking and its odorous aftermath.
Meanwhile, when the box's lid was lifted, it would set off a can of "fart spray" and a centrifugal motor attached to a cup of glitter, prompting comical responses from the thieves.
Israelis initially celebrated the 2010 operation, but then the Dubai police released images showing some of the 17 people suspected of being in the hit squad bumbling about in almost comical disguises.
My history teacher later on was one of my best friend's dads and he did a good job of making the subject comical for annoying high schoolers who didn't want to learn.
"Our Little Sister," which is played in a breezier, more comical key than those earlier films, settles in with three adult sisters who live together in the house where they grew up.
Artist Mary Maggic references second- and third-wave feminist histories in their video, Housewives Making Drugs (2017), a comical, but poignant commentary on transgender and non-binary-identifying people's access to estrogen.
It doesn't make the most sense, but it provides a fun, comical sequence where Maeve walks around foiling the park's usual storyline as she talks and manipulates the other hosts, Jedi-like.
These are just some of the little quirks —the frustrating inconveniences and the comical oversights—that are discussed online in the leapling members community, the Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies.
For the first half hour or so, audiences watch Ron's journey from a desk jockey to an undercover detective, and through a comical set of circumstances, witness his infiltration into the KKK.
Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma and Johnny Flynn as Mr. Knightley tops off a cast filled with British baes for a retelling of one of the more comical of Jane Austen's stories.
A room filled with portraits of children dressed as royalty or clergy, which also includes a darkly comical child-size suit of armor, is funny and nostalgic, but its significance stops there.
His choice to run the White House Council on Environmental Quality is borderline comical: Kathleen Hartnett White, a former Texas official who believes that the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is harmless.
The neighborhood is sufficiently dusty and poor but curiously underpopulated compared with the human riot of Ferrante's novels, whose atmosphere of violence Costanzo literalizes in overdrawn, almost comical, fights among angry women.
"The idea that somehow we're going to take distribution and content and create something so powerful that it would disrupt Google, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix, it's comical to be honest," he said.
At the same time, there are chaotic preparations to receive the king and queen, and comical friction with the Royal Family's retinue, who bring several trunks of snotty attitude along with them.
While "Boy" has traumatic undertones — the title character lost his mother at an early age and spent seven years apart from his imprisoned father — it's light and comical all the way through.
Kevyn Morrow is charismatic as their old friend the Duke of Norfolk, while John Ahlin is vivid and comical in two roles, as the ingratiating diplomat Chapuys and More's enemy, Cardinal Wolsey.
Xander Berkeley's performance as the Hilltop leader has never exactly been the stuff of gritty dramas, but he's beyond comical here, mugging and pantomiming like Don Knotts in an old Three's Company episode.
But "Toni Erdmann" pulls it off by maintaining a balance between crazed, comical scenes and more subdued moments; the actors, too, manage these changes in mood with an impressive precision and comic timing.
LONDON — With Mother's Day right around the corner (in the UK at least), mums have taken to social media to share their brutally honest — and highly comical — tales of the reality of parenting.
The premiere did little to clarify his role, presenting him as a comical foil to an otherwise embattled Elliot, one who enlists him in an unnamed task that requires his dark coding expertise.
Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican who has frequently supported Trump and worked with Sessions when he was in the Senate, offered him a hand, painting a comical portrait of an alleged spy scheme.
The worst culprit of films employing this trope is Sweet November (which will be celebrating its 15th anniversary tomorrow), in which Keanu Reeves plays Nelson, who is the worst to a comical degree.
Incessant name-calling, the offensive barbs and the comical caricatures that have been the hallmarks of this campaign season must now give way to serious engagement, thoughtful analysis, and above all, sound judgment.
The man, comical but also grotesque, chivalric but also clueless, embodies desires that cannot be comfortably distinguished from the wish to quiet her: You've heard of planting lotuses in a fire, she says.
This coat has "Burbelly" on the buttons instead of Burberry, so these are the comical things that we find when you look at it up close, and you could pick it right out.
In Pieter van Huystee's new documentary, "Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil," there is a bizarre, almost comical disconnect between the artworks assembled for a historic exhibition and the fuss surrounding its preparation.
Facebook was also widely criticized for its political ad policy, and many felt that a font change and logo rebrand were quite comical and simple changes for Zuckerberg to make at this time.
Every moment in that ten hours was dedicated to pursuing minutiae about the game, all the while waiting for Danni to die in a comical way to so I could clap about it.
Nothing extreme to see here, except this Union Jack tent that had been adorned with a comical pirate flag, which is sort of like if Asda did a Brexit themed festival fun pack.
Police were called to the hotel to cut out the driver, who was unharmed, as onlookers were treated to the comical sight of the black soft-top Porsche squashed under the larger vehicle.
In "Grandma," Ms. Olinghouse employs Clown Therapy — a personal improvisational practice of, in her words, "queering the clown form" — to address familial dynamics and offer a comical critique of consumerism and the media.
For the past few years, Mr. Cox has been filling several journals with his bleaker experiences and anecdotes about his troubles — as well as comical musings on single life in New York City.
Anheuser Bush supported Bud Light Seltzer with a comical ad campaign that aired during prominent NFL games like the Super Bowl and during the opening games of the newly relaunched XFL's first season.
When an L.I.R.R. train derailed last month while entering a station in Brooklyn, it was almost comical to watch Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio try to outmaneuver each other for political advantage.
Instead, Netflix releases its own popularity lists – "Murder Mystery" topped the chart last year — though the ranking criteria is comical: It's based on the number of households watching for at least two minutes.
It is also the most comical of the three, as Thor — who now lives on Planet Garbage Dump (Sakaar) — is "a playfully sustained joke," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
That's excellent advice to keep in mind for the return of this tender, comical, thoroughly enchanting show, kicking off the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters with performances starting Wednesday, April 11.
The rebuttals — a combination of callous, clumsy and sometimes comical — have come variously from the spokesman of the president's office, the increasingly retrograde-sounding state media and the Facebook pages of several officials.
In an eyes-wide-open game of Exquisite Corpse, presented here in book form, they mostly draw their way through the project, each posting comical scenes that the other completes — or one-ups.

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