There's something of the comic-opera incompetent about Weinstein. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But for this comic-opera neo-McCarthyist, none of that is really necessary, is it? ❋ Unknown (2009)
So despite critical grumblings about turning backward into the past, the National Opera could hardly have made a better choice for the holidays than to finally offer Paris Ponnelle's witty, effervescent staging of Gioachino Rossini's sparkling comic-opera Cinderella story. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)
And our comic-opera Mayor, who hadn't attended either of the first two meetings, was in perfect Larry O'Brien form. ❋ Unknown (2009)
How did the comic-opera pastor of a tiny Southern congregation come to dominate the media for the better part of a week, eclipsing countless expressions of outrage from religious and secular groups around the country? ❋ Jim Kenney (2010)
Because we offer something more than the comic-opera staged combats that currently mesmerize them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As soon as I alighted, I found one of the "traffic vigils," whose handsome, white pith helmets lend them a comic-opera charm, making them the most approachable of Italian police, though perhaps not the most effectual. ❋ Francis X. Rocca (2011)
Things started to unravel for Koizumi's successor, Shinzo Abe, when Parliament started grilling his agriculture minister for expensing a few tens of thousands of dollars in office water bills; hit a comic-opera high when opposition lawmakers raided his office in a publicity stunt to see if he had the expensive water purifiers he had insisted caused the high bills; and touched bottom when the minister hanged himself amid a string of other allegations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The real-time name of Adolf Hitler, along with his Austrian comic-opera name of Adolf Schicklgruber, has finally been mentioned, and things are turning nasty and serious. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The captain, a seedy Spaniard in a comic-opera version of a military uniform, leans over the rail and takes the troubadour's pink ticket. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Cozy mysteries take place in a world in which rich toffs with eyeglasses, or weird comic-opera Belgians with mustachios, can barge into a criminal investigation, and the local police welcome them with open arms! ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2009)
Fond of wearing comic-opera military uniforms with 18th-century-style plumed hats, Mr. Trujillo was as brutal as he was outlandish, murdering thousands of Haitian immigrants as well as torturing and killing political opponents; he fed some of them to the sharks. ❋ David Luhnow, José De Córdoba AND Nicholas Casey (2009)
