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"Comicality" Quotes from Famous Books

... There are three stanzas of such near the close of the First Part of Peter Bell, where Peter first catches a glimpse of the dead body in the water, all happily incongruous, and ending with one which reaches the height of comicality: ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... Bergson's theory of the comic fairly well coincides with that of Freud. The latter author, it is true, summarises his conclusions in different language. But the meaning is not very different. For him the feeling of comicality is an "economy of ideational expenditure," and it is evoked by the sight of another person who in a given performance displays either a lack of mental activity or an excess of physical, i.e., who is either stupid or ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... "Besides," says she, with comicality in her eyes, looking at me from head to foot: "I should never think of being jealous of you, ...

— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... exclaimed, "but that's the most comical affair I have seen yet. Comical! no, not a touch of comicality in it. Zounds, is it possible that the, jade has coerced and beaten me?—dared to beard the lion in his own den—to strip him, as it were, of his claws, and to pull the very fangs out of his jaws, and, ...

— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... view makes an essential difference. Jube Perkins thought Rufe's comicality most praiseworthy—his pipe went out while ...

— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)

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