Whereas some dancers are faintly comic in these fumblings, Ms. Alexopoulos and Mr. Fayette were always serious.

Despite the gravity of the situation, as I think of it now, there was something faintly comic in it as well.

To English ears," Billington continues, "Sidcup has faintly comic overtones of suburban respectability.

The silence and the stare were alarming, and faintly comic, as if he was trying to hypnotize a bird.

The question came so oddly on the top of the other that it sounded faintly comic.

You couldn't counterfeit that little regular cluck, as of the tiniest chicken--a perfect little sound, faintly comic, infinitely precious!

Those repeated "uck" syllables aptly evoke the sound of the experience, as well as its faintly comic discomfort.

Mr. Stelling's episode shows more stylistic polish than the other two; it is largely wordless until the film's faintly comic finale.

In these chapters, Mr. Carter writes with a faintly comic gravity.

She piped another tune, faintly comic, giggled, and tossing off her gown dove into the water (wearing this time her peppermint-candy bikini).