I. adjective
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a comic actor
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He was a comic actor and he always got a laugh.
a comic role
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She admits she is attracted to comic roles.
a comic/tragic character (= a funny or sad one )
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Homer Simpson is a great comic character.
comic strip
musical/comic/mathematical etc genius
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■ NOUN
actor
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Both are larger-than-life comic actors .
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Now though, in the great tradition of comic actors , he wants to be taken seriously.
actress
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No comic actress working today is funnier or more versatile.
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Bonita Friedericy, Natalie Schafer Award for an up-and-coming comic actress .
book
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You can use the programs to edit photos and create greeting cards, certificates, comic books , labels and other goodies.
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The evolution of the comic book continued on its varied path, developing new ideas and throwing up new characters.
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The personal appearance of Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-man, the X-Men and other comic book heroes.
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It's a comic book sort of thing, doing everything in your power to present yourselves as greater than your audience.
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I had a ton of comic books , too.
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UnbreakabLe is a movie partly about comic books .
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The game had colorful pictures, the covers of comic books , it even had a picture of Earth!
books
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UnbreakabLe is a movie partly about comic books .
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Word spread widely and quickly, through the networks, even through underground comic books where the illiterate could read them.
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There's a certain type of movie about comic books that's been made over and over.
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You can use the programs to edit photos and create greeting cards, certificates, comic books , labels and other goodies.
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Alcohol, comic books and mouthwash all bask under the superior reputation of the market.
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I had a ton of comic books , too.
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The game had colorful pictures, the covers of comic books , it even had a picture of Earth!
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She threw out my comic books , too.
character
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A sense of comic character and timing are the main requirements, and John carried it off successfully.
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Here are some Marvel comic characters .
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Joe Shuster, cartoonist who developed the original Superman comic character , died Los Angeles, aged seventy-eight.
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Sally Jo Bannow makes even Edith the housemaid into a major comic character .
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For many years Jack Benny had a comic character on his programs named Mr Shlepperman-a timid, weak-kneed character.
genius
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It's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated.
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I mean, he was a comic genius , yet he still wanted to be something he wasn't.
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The only saving grace was Robert Downey Junior's performance as the comic genius they said.
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It isn't every comic genius who would undertake to send his talent into such painful places.
novel
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This is more of the same, a comic novel about the difficulties of being different.
opera
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I doubt it too; it is simply too good comic opera to be true.
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The comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan is a regular feature on the Alexandra's varied programme.
relief
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Interspersed between tragic stories are a few songs supplying pointed but comic relief .
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What I did was to provide him with some comic relief .
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He was, and he remained for the time being, a figure of comic relief .
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I raised £7.41 for comic relief by eating jelly with chopsticks.
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For comic relief , obviously; but we also suspect a topical reference worth considering as evidence in the dating game.
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Telephoning Jonathan to break off the engagement had almost been a high point of comic relief .
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She was able to take centre stage, providing comic relief while Zephyr shared intimate moments with her special friends.
strip
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But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along.
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The only thing was that now, it was more like a comic strip .
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Unfortunately, I am no longer able to maintain the schedule demanded by a daily comic strip .
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You may know him as the talented creator of that incisive Tucson Weekly comic strip , Staggering Heights.
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It's known as Fat Albert after a comic strip character.
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They starred in comic strips and branched out into radio.
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A leaning toward chemistry and chemical engineering was no doubt kindled in some way by a Mickey Mouse comic strip .
writer
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Like all first-rate comic writers , Shaw was fascinated by the gulf between appearance and reality.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
darkly funny/humorous/comic
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The show is a darkly comic look at medicine, money and morality.
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Social Blunders, which follows the romantic misadventures of 33-year-old Sam Callahan, is a darkly comic romp through heartache.
light/comic relief
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After a day's work, it was a bit of light relief to use it.
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After this beginning some light relief must have been welcome.
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All we can say is that, between them, the team eventually raises £3,450 for Comic Relief charities.
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Cold people shake Comic Relief canisters.
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For comic relief , obviously; but we also suspect a topical reference worth considering as evidence in the dating game.
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Her only light relief was Tony, who took her out every night.
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If it afforded the guardians a little light relief , the minutes do not suggest that the complaint was taken anything but seriously.
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Then, for light relief , this page: murder and murder trials.
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In Shakespeare's Henry 1V, the character of Falstaff provides us with a little comic relief.
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Like all comic writers, Shaw was fascinated by the gap between appearance and reality.
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She is one of the most gifted comic actresses on television.
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Streep provided one of the best comic performances of her career.
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Then Gertie got up on the stage and delighted us all by singing a comic song.
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A big woman, Wilkens uses her bulk to exquisite comic advantage.
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He went to Eastbourne secondary school before carving out a comic career in London.
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I mean, he was a comic genius, yet he still wanted to be something he wasn't.
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Many medieval manuscripts have decorated borders filled with comic animals and birds and people.
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No comic actress working today is funnier or more versatile.
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The comic euro is low because it can not, and will not be taken seriously by the world nations.
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Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.
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Tyrone Guthrie was a great one for comic business, and it was amazing to see how Michael picked it all up.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
read
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Gazzer could see Tony going into the lighted ticket-booth to read his comic .
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So I didn't even read comics .
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I read comics , like Victor and Dandy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a stand-up comic
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A comic gives children the opportunity to retreat into their own world; it is a very private thing.
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Gazzer could see Tony going into the lighted ticket-booth to read his comic .
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It would be rather more welcome if comics could still be comics.
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So we set some of our comics the toughest challenge of all make us laugh about Maastricht.
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Stand-up comics, actors and writers do not retire, Mr. Howerd pointed out.
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The language, not just the art work of comics changed then too.
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There is no text that can be read, such as there is even in a children's comic .