"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)
... may be a scribe of sense, or comicality, Avoiding the sensational, the silly, and the shoppy; But he can never make a claim to true originality, His contributions always being recognised ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 • Various
... omitting a comma, although he understood scarcely any part of them. But at length he became resigned, noticing that among the three or four hundred in his class only about forty merited the honor of being questioned, because they attracted the professor's attention by their appearance, some prank, comicality, or other cause. The greater part of the students congratulated themselves that they thus escaped the work of thinking and understanding the subject. "One goes to college, not to learn and study, but to gain credit for the course, so ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... This strange habit of the Countess is a fact, and sorely distressed the Earl, as he has himself put on record, though with all his annoyance he shows himself quite conscious of the comicality of the proceeding. ...
— A Forgotten Hero - Not for Him • Emily Sarah Holt
... two pages (122-23) to exposing some of Westermarck's arguments, which, as he shows, "border on the comic." I myself have in this chapter, as well as in those on Africans, American Indians, South Sea Islanders, etc., revealed the comicality of the assertion that there is in a savage condition of life "comparatively little reason for illegitimate relations," which forms one of the main props of Westermarck's anti-promiscuity theory; and I have also reduced ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... present on these occasions, with the appeal, 'Pas vrai, Dillen?' after each broken sentence,—would have been inexpressibly droll, had not the low-comedy actor of the scene been an autocrat who might, at a wink, have transformed laughter into tears. But there was a demoniacal comicality about the performance, which, if it did not convulse the spectator, made him shudder to ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes
... their long four years' cruise Edward Gancy and Henry Chester have seen many a strange sight, they think the one now before their eyes as strange as any, and unique in its quaint comicality. They would have continued their observations much longer but for Seagriff, to whom the sight is neither strange nor new. It has no interest for him, save economically, and in this sense he proceeds to utilise it, saying, after an interrogative glance sent all ...
— The Land of Fire - A Tale of Adventure • Mayne Reid |
