11.   Perhaps in response, Shepherd has slowed down comic scenes, letting words and jokes linger in midair that should be performed at a trot.

12.   Remember the comic scene where the Sioux warriors dub Kevin Costner Dances With Wolves because he looks so loony frolicking alongside his lupine friend?

13.   She engages with him in one memorably unorthodox breathing exercise that may be intended as a feminist indictment, but plays very nicely as a comic scene.

14.   The big comic scenes are staged and edited without the necessary propulsive bounce, and the emotional logic of the characters wobbles and wavers.

15.   The broadly comic scenes function in much the same way.

16.   The movie is primarily a series of comic scenes that show the characters getting under the middle-class skin of selected victims.

17.   There are, of course, some amusing passages, some comic scenes that will elicit smiles.

18.   Winkler ordered the excision of a comic scene between Angela and a deranged transient.

19.   An award-winning film set in a Nazi concentration camp and featuring some tenderly comic scenes won a respectful reception Saturday at its Israel premiere.

20.   An award-winning film set in a Nazi concentration camp that featured some tenderly comic scenes won a respectful reception Saturday at its Israel premiere.