While he uses his list for comic effect, you can use the same approach to create a structure for your presentations.

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Stewart likes to protest that such skewering is purely for comic effect.

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If this is a comic effect, it is a subtle one.

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Jones has played his crankiness for comic effect often enough over the years, but director David Frankel ("The Devil Wears Prada") keeps the actors rooted in naturalism, not caricature, and it's exciting to see Jones respond with a performance of discipline and subtlety.

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It is fed in part by some of the familiar pejoratives associated with tech geekery (Denton as anti-social robot, for example), and also by his own publications, which, in the interest of his vaunted transparency, occasionally turn their pitiless gaze on the boss himself, for comic effect.

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One thing that might be revealed at Comic-Con is that Mass Effect will become yet another 3D Hollywood blockbuster.

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The songs are delivered lustily, although audiences may not be ready for what is, in effect, a murky comic opera.

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In effect, the movie goes from comic shtick to problem-drama shtick, and then fuses them.

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He and the rest of the Normandy's crew are used as just one example of a system that Apple patented, which turns game story choices into a unique comic book (nevermind the fact that Mass Effect comics exist on their own).

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