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Example sentences for: screwball

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crackling with an impudent screwball energy reminiscent of Howard Hawks's movies."
The scenes between Cusack and Keener boast the best emasculating banter since Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy , and when Lotte and Maxine begin to communicate erotically through Malkovich's body, the film becomes a transsexual (and transcendental) screwball comedy.
Some say Kline's screwball performance rescues the film: "Kline triumphs over an incoherent idea" (David Denby, New York ). ( In & Out is plugged here.)
More precisely, he's a "pretribulational dispensationalist," an unwieldy label that refers to two separate but intertwined beliefs that were popularized in the early 1800s by John Nelson Darby, an English minister and a special sort of screwball genius whose ideas later spread to America.
And none provides more fodder for melancholy middle-aged comedy, from the heavyweight musings of Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being to the fluffy screwball machinations of Forces of Nature . In the latter, currently the most popular movie in the country, the filmmakers strain to bring together free spirit Sandra Bullock and affianced fuddy-duddy Ben Affleck.