Does one person think the following sentence is strange? “I still find them comic”
This is the Old Bailey. He is a Lord. Or she is a Lord. What are the gender differences between “man” and “woman”. What is the way some people use different terms, such as wigs or wigs, to refer to each other? I was advised. On outward investment. I find wigs intimidating any more than the arcane forms of address; I find them comic.
When I think about Apple Tree Yard
by Louise Doughty, I tell myself that it is “comical.” My Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary tells me that comical is an adjective which means amusing, often because it is odd or absurd. Then it gets used within the words u201eadjective!,” “amusing”.
One of the ways that Merriam Webster defines
comical is: causing laughter especially by being unattractive? Even more hilarious than usual jokes, especially when it’s funny. What is the OAD definition?
Why did I decide to become comical in the
big hat?
In the OALD, art becomes funny, 1. If so, why? of comedy: comic opera And comic actor
According to The Chambers Dictionary, comic adj. Is related to comedy; raising mirth or laughter, funny, humorous and comical adj. Meaning amusing.
For comic M-W has: causing laughter or amusement, funny
a comic monologue
His comic timing is impeccable.
If comic is normally used attributively and two dictionaries seem to confirm this, am I right in thinking the following sentence ” I find them comic” sounds odd, or worse incorrect? What was the same phrase if the
phrase was the following: I find
him (the judge) comic Would that be exactly the same?
What
is a good alternative to the post comic vs. the post stories? Why has the comical question not answered my question, because it asks about the difference in meaning. I’m in a bind! The definitions are included in my post thus I am asking about specific sentence in a novel and its grammaticality/appropriness. I am using
wand/mdb. And I should use these examples as a test for my English grammar and vocabulary.
As both your research and Edwin Ashworth have pointed out, there is no reason to reject the word comic as incorrect. As a feminist I think Ms. Doughty does have significant semantic support for her choice – even if it seems
like the wrong word on its face –
regarding or in the style of comedy: Contrary to the noble traditions of British judicial tradition, Yvonne, the narrator and protagonist, experiences the costumes and behavior as the buffoonery of a comic drama.
Is what she meant by “wrong word”?
What are spoilers and what’s your opinion on #SparkLeakAthome? What is the ending of a novel?
At precisely this point, in the larger context of the novel, Yvonne is being set up for her Fall–the climax in The Prologue. Since laughter is not the intent of the tragic narrative, comic would take the reader too far away from the pathos of the moment, which will grow throughout the story.
Interestingly, this critical moment is repeated verbatim in the body of the story, but her narrative is excluded, along with her notion of the comic court. No more “comic relief” for new writers, and now there are four competing stories to be told. When the plot is fully played out, the story concludes happily in the narrator’s imagination as a subtly farcical tragedy in her imaginary-story-game tryst.
I smile to myself as we twine a little tighter. I am smiling at my folly, at you when I am lying, now that I just read yours. What are you saying? What’s that idea of getting up if we want to? And it is a game we love. We both know.. I could get up if I wanted to. If you have no choice and you have no responsibility, you choose to pretend, I am yours and you are mine, if you pretend to be your own personality. If we are the victims of our desire, our vast desires, then none of this is our fault, is it? How do we keep the peace – no one will get hurt. How can we be free from shame, and from guilt? Is something innocent?
Doughty, Louise / Apple Tree Yard: A Novel (Kindle locations 5153-5154). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Kindle is our sole publishing line).
In that critical location of the Prologue, Doughty planted the first comic seed for what ends up being a romantic psycho- tragicomedy. In the style of Aristotle’s Ancient Greek Comic Drama is more becoming for that purpose than comical : ‘Comedy, as
we have said, is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly.’
How does The Guardian view
it: As this is principally a novel about stories it would be best told the same way. The gap between stories we tell, and the stories others create about us, based on selective facts… As readers, we are on Yvonne’s side, privy to her secret account… I find it comic irc “in the style of comedy.
”
www.oxforddictionaries.org.uk”. www.pereustufts.
edu edu
www.dramaonlinelibrary.info/edu.html. http://www.theguardian.com.au
com
or Google.com?
As both your research and Edwin Ashworth have pointed out, there is no reason to reject the word comic as incorrect. As a feminist I think Ms. Doughty does have significant semantic support for her choice – even if it seems
like the wrong word on its face –
regarding or in the style of comedy: Contrary to the noble traditions of British judicial tradition, Yvonne, the narrator and protagonist, experiences the costumes and behavior as the buffoonery of a comic drama.
Is what she meant by “wrong word”?
What are spoilers and what’s your opinion on #SparkLeakAthome? What is the ending of a novel?
At precisely this point, in the larger context of the novel, Yvonne is being set up for her Fall–the climax in The Prologue. Since laughter is not the intent of the tragic narrative, comic would take the reader too far away from the pathos of the moment, which will grow throughout the story.
Interestingly, this critical moment is repeated verbatim in the body of the story, but her narrative is excluded, along with her notion of the comic court. No more “comic relief” for new writers, and now there are four competing stories to be told. When the plot is fully played out, the story concludes happily in the narrator’s imagination as a subtly farcical tragedy in her imaginary-story-game tryst.
I smile to myself as we twine a little tighter. I am smiling at my folly, at you when I am lying, now that I just read yours. What are you saying? What’s that idea of getting up if we want to? And it is a game we love. We both know.. I could get up if I wanted to. If you have no choice and you have no responsibility, you choose to pretend, I am yours and you are mine, if you pretend to be your own personality. If we are the victims of our desire, our vast desires, then none of this is our fault, is it? How do we keep the peace – no one will get hurt. How can we be free from shame, and from guilt? Is something innocent?
Doughty, Louise / Apple Tree Yard: A Novel (Kindle locations 5153-5154). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Kindle is our sole publishing line).
In that critical location of the Prologue, Doughty planted the first comic seed for what ends up being a romantic psycho- tragicomedy. In the style of Aristotle’s Ancient Greek Comic Drama is more becoming for that purpose than comical : ‘Comedy, as
we have said, is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly.’
How does The Guardian view
it: As this is principally a novel about stories it would be best told the same way. The gap between stories we tell, and the stories others create about us, based on selective facts… As readers, we are on Yvonne’s side, privy to her secret account… I find it comic irc “in the style of comedy.
”
www.oxforddictionaries.org.uk”. www.pereustufts.
edu edu
www.dramaonlinelibrary.info/edu.html. http://www.theguardian.com.au
com
or Google.com?
As both your research and Edwin Ashworth have pointed out, there is no reason to reject the word comic as incorrect. As a feminist I think Ms. Doughty does have significant semantic support for her choice – even if it seems
like the wrong word on its face –
regarding or in the style of comedy: Contrary to the noble traditions of British judicial tradition, Yvonne, the narrator and protagonist, experiences the costumes and behavior as the buffoonery of a comic drama.
Is what she meant by “wrong word”?
What are spoilers and what’s your opinion on #SparkLeakAthome? What is the ending of a novel?
At precisely this point, in the larger context of the novel, Yvonne is being set up for her Fall–the climax in The Prologue. Since laughter is not the intent of the tragic narrative, comic would take the reader too far away from the pathos of the moment, which will grow throughout the story.
Interestingly, this critical moment is repeated verbatim in the body of the story, but her narrative is excluded, along with her notion of the comic court. No more “comic relief” for new writers, and now there are four competing stories to be told. When the plot is fully played out, the story concludes happily in the narrator’s imagination as a subtly farcical tragedy in her imaginary-story-game tryst.
I smile to myself as we twine a little tighter. I am smiling at my folly, at you when I am lying, now that I just read yours. What are you saying? What’s that idea of getting up if we want to? And it is a game we love. We both know.. I could get up if I wanted to. If you have no choice and you have no responsibility, you choose to pretend, I am yours and you are mine, if you pretend to be your own personality. If we are the victims of our desire, our vast desires, then none of this is our fault, is it? How do we keep the peace – no one will get hurt. How can we be free from shame, and from guilt? Is something innocent?
Doughty, Louise / Apple Tree Yard: A Novel (Kindle locations 5153-5154). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Kindle is our sole publishing line).
In that critical location of the Prologue, Doughty planted the first comic seed for what ends up being a romantic psycho- tragicomedy. In the style of Aristotle’s Ancient Greek Comic Drama is more becoming for that purpose than comical : ‘Comedy, as
we have said, is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly.’
How does The Guardian view
it: As this is principally a novel about stories it would be best told the same way. The gap between stories we tell, and the stories others create about us, based on selective facts… As readers, we are on Yvonne’s side, privy to her secret account… I find it comic irc “in the style of comedy.
”
www.oxforddictionaries.org.uk”. www.pereustufts.
edu edu
www.dramaonlinelibrary.info/edu.html. http://www.theguardian.com.au
com
or Google.com?
