The last speaker, whoever he may be, and he is frequently the 'gracioso', abandons, for the last few lines of his speech, his assumed character, and addresses the audience as an actor in a brief epilogue. ❋ Pedro Calder��n De La Barca (1640)
“Ahhh tu eres de Venezuela?” me preguntaba mientras reía, “es verdad que ustedes tienen una escuela para formar misses? que gracioso!” ❋ Unknown (2009)
D es gracioso, me gusta. me dio mucho risa el 'pelo-en-pecho' que tenía el señor, fue, lejos, lo mejor xD ❋ Unknown (2010)
Tuesday's all-Ravel first half, with "Alborada del gracioso," the suite from "Ma mère l'oye" (Mother Goose) and the "Rapsodie espagnole" offered more thoughts and ideas and timbres in a short span of time than many entire programs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As to Schubert, the two movements of his "Unfinished" Symphony, Dudamel drew out its old-world character - the dancey, gracioso, tenderly Romantic qualities we can ideally hear. ❋ Unknown (2009)
¿Quién fue el gracioso que gritó The Matrix desde el fondo de la sala de clases? ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Muy gracioso,” she said—border slang for “very funny”—and hurried off to fetch the charge nurse, who immediately paged the resident on call. ❋ Jonathan Nasaw (2001)
Mi padre me regaló este gracioso librito: My father made me a present of this pretty little book. ❋ C. A. Toledano (N/A)
Restoration stage borrowed situations from the Spanish love-intrigue comedy, not so much directly as by way of Molière, Thomas Corneille, and other French playwrights; and the duenna and the _gracioso_ became stock figures in English performances. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Something of the same kind is still retained in the lower kinds of popular exhibitions; and the clowns to the shows of tumbling and horsemanship, with my much-respected friend Mr. Punch in a puppet-show, bear a pretty close resemblance to the gracioso of the Spaniards, the arlequino of the Italians, and the clown of the ancient English drama. ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)
[9] The gracioso or buffoon, according to Lord Holland, held an intermediate character between a spectator and a character in the play; interrupting with his remarks, at one time, the performance, of which he forms an essential, but very defective part in another. ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)
This rôle, -- that of the _badin_ in France, the _gracioso_ in Spain, ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)
Another element which he established in the Spanish drama, was the comic under-plot, and the witty _gracioso_ or droll, the parody of the heroic character of the play. ❋ Anne C. Lynch Botta (1853)
On Christmas eve we went there to see the gracioso (harlequin) in a woman's dress, dance Tripili, an old Spanish dance, accompanied with singing. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)
On Christmas-eve we went there to see the _gracioso_ (harlequin) in a woman's dress, dance _Tripili_, an old Spanish dance, accompanied with singing. ❋ Frances Calder��n De La Barca (1843)
El video es tan gracioso como la canción, y aunque me encantan Jay y Kanye, es refrescante escuchar al dúo cantar sobre algo que cuadra con la realidad de la mayoría de la gente. ❋ Unknown (2011)
