Words similar to screwball

Example sentences for: screwball

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Fraser has a long, rangy body and a gee-whiz openness that makes him perfect for a comic-book hero, and the lovely Weisz--whose eyes are so far apart that they're almost in different time zones--brings a screwball aplomb to the dizzy distaff Egyptologist.
Some say Kline's screwball performance rescues the film: "Kline triumphs over an incoherent idea" (David Denby, New York ). ( In & Out is plugged here.)
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.
The best reason for seeing Forces of Nature --a sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy in which straight-arrow Ben Affleck is tempted from his imminent nuptials by free spirit Sandra Bullock and assorted natural disasters--is a scene in which the heartsick jock ex-boyfriend (David Strickland) of Affleck's fiancee (Maura Tierney) sings an a cappella version of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" into her ear in the middle of a party.