| 单词 | black comedy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack comedy b. [Compare pièce noire n., film noir n.] Of comedy, a comic piece, etc.: presenting tragic or distressing situations in humorous terms; wry, ironic. Frequently in black comedy, black humour n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] > (of theatrical productions) gruesome ghoulish1862 macaberesque1876 macabre1889 Grand Guignol1907 black1961 1961 Times 14 Oct. 12/6 Another festival choice is the Spanish Placido, a new film by Berlanga, described as ‘another excursion into black comedy’. 1965 Listener 11 Mar. 379/3 The whole form of ‘Berck-Plage’, a poem about a seaside funeral, is a most remarkable piece of black cinema. 1984 N.Y. Mag. 10 Dec. 84 (caption) A Scrooge at once sad and wicked, with a smile of black irony. 2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 138/1 A raucous, high voltage black comedy following the journalists ‘embedded’ with the US military in Iraq as they embarked on the Pentagon's prime time war. < as lemmas |
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