1.   So the bargaining takes on a nouveau comic tone, and we all become role players in the funny business.

2.   As Horatio Jackson in another Gilliam film, Mr. Pryce helps maintains the comic tone set by John Neville as the Baron.

3.   Basch has a quicksilver command of comic tone that seems purely theatrical.

4.   A voluble, intrusive narrator does set a comic tone in the first half of the book.

5.   After some stale warm-up banter that is supposed to set a comic tone, Tolins tries to steer his play into more serious territory.

6.   But this movie, a chaotic caper film at heart, wrecks its comic tone with some moments of gruesome violence.

7.   However, the comic tone is well above slapstick.

8.   None of it gives the movie narrative energy or a consistent comic tone.

9.   The comic tone of the book is tart yet humane.

10.   The film can claim a more highly developed sense of irony and a far sharper comic tone.