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I mean, Miss Goddess and I got it out of the house, in a low-comedy procedure that involved luring it into Older Monkey's cardboard-box-cum-pinhole-camera from last month's Art Camp.
Archive 2008-07-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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I mean, Miss Goddess and I got it out of the house, in a low-comedy procedure that involved luring it into Older Monkey's cardboard-box-cum-pinhole-camera from last month's Art Camp.
No words Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Whatever thunder she built up at the beginning was stolen by Judy Canova doing a low-comedy dialect number which frankly ruined the piece.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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(Right) In the distance, James 'Velocycle cruises the bars next to infamous Buckinger's Boot Marionettes with Father Seamus (pronounced "Shame-us") and his Sinful Sisters entertaining the crowds with the low-comedy tune Mah Nà Mah Nà, and more outrageous stuff & nonsense.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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I also like the cartoony low-comedy gag of Chevalier running back to his room and checking to see if there's anything wrong with the liquor, and then deciding that if there's anything wrong with it, he wants more of it.
How I Would Love One Hour With You Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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I also like the cartoony low-comedy gag of Chevalier running back to his room and checking to see if there's anything wrong with the liquor, and then deciding that if there's anything wrong with it, he wants more of it.
Archive 2007-11-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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Shakespeare definitely understood the line between retread low-comedy trash (Merry Wives of Windsor) and “complex” (in the EBIGfY definition) stuff that became more fascinating every time you read it — and allows readers to find new facets even 400 years later.
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I wonder if these writers thought their books would provide for low-comedy blog posts decades later.
Prison Nurse Mother Jones RN 2006
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It works surprisingly well, whether as sharply pointed satire or as sheer — or if you prefer, mere — high-spirited low-comedy fooling around; most commonly, as a peculiar mixture of both.
Birds of America Macdonald, Dwight 1966
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Even now I remember how Zerkow - sky hadn't fastened his parka, and what a low-comedy way it flapped around his bottom.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
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