Example sentences for: screwball

How can you use “screwball” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • crackling with an impudent screwball energy reminiscent of Howard Hawks's movies."

  • Some say Kline's screwball performance rescues the film: "Kline triumphs over an incoherent idea" (David Denby, New York ). ( In & Out is plugged here.)

  • The Village Voice isn't buying the overuptight Affleck: "You can't have screwball comedy if only one party desperately wants to screw," writes Justine Elias.

  • Instead, left and right united in a screwball shared interest in rejecting any positive environmental tidings.

  • The Farrelly brothers' latest slapstick is said to hark back to the screwball romances of the 1940s: The Dumb & Dumber directors temper their repulsive humor--which includes gags about a mangled penis and the mentally retarded--with a touching love story.


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