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Examples
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The Two Skirts & a Shirt show opens with a self-titled original semi-comic blues; it's a trifle misleading, more like a 1960s TV variety-show opening.
A Wondrous Week of Tunes Will Friedwald 2011
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The imitation of democracy is the same as the imitation of national heroism -- see photos and statues of generals on horse-back so common to these semi-comic dictators.
Reverend Billy: Mickey Mouse Pleads with Wisconsin Children: Don't Revolt! Watch TV! Go Shopping! Reverend Billy 2011
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What was once a global flash point amounts today to a semi-comic kerfuffle.
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Strauss wrote his own libretto for this thinly disguised semi-comic glimpse into his own domestic life.
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The imitation of democracy is the same as the imitation of national heroism -- see photos and statues of generals on horse-back so common to these semi-comic dictators.
Reverend Billy: Mickey Mouse Pleads with Wisconsin Children: Don't Revolt! Watch TV! Go Shopping! Reverend Billy 2011
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Nancy Fabiola Herrera was a solid anchor as her scolding aunt Donna Rosa; Vladimir Chernov had fun in the semi-comic role of Mario's boss, Giorgio.
Domingo's tenor lifts respectable, but too literal, 'Il Postino' by Daniel Catán Anne Midgette 2010
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She sings "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me" like a semi-comic air of self-deprecation rather than a typical torch song, and with a very dramatic pause after the first word.
Visionaries on a Mission Will Friedwald 2011
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The second a cappella group gets all the vocal and dance moves down with "Get Ready" which wows the judges and Seabiscuit pronounces Jacob Lusk, who ended the number with a semi-comic low note, as "a new star."
'American Idol' 2011 continues Hollywood Week [update -- video] Lisa de Moraes 2011
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That issue emphasized forensic investigation rather than the semi-comic capers and sci-fi of the previous decade.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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A decade ago, this city hosted a stream of fanatical Muslims who kept cropping up in the tabloid press as semi-comic pantomime villains.
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