Example sentences for: slapstick

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

  • The mixture of slacker small-talk, goofy slapstick, and Grand Guignol horror works better than anyone could have imagined.

  • While noting the film's cheap gags and formulaic plot, critics end up smiling at this slapstick courtroom comedy, which stars Michael Richards, Seinfeld 's Kramer.

  • Critics applaud the selection of the absurdist Italian playwright, even while calling him the "most obscure Nobel winner" in years (David Streitfeld, the Washington Post ). Fo's work, especially Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), is celebrated for combining trenchant left-wing satire with slapstick humor "reminiscent of vintage Marx Brothers" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Conservative critics echo the Vatican, which condemned the choice of the anti-clericalist and ex-Communist as an act that "has surpassed all imagination."

  • Men of my grandpa's era and earlier were amused by the subtle, the slapstick, and the silly.

  • Now there's a riff on You Only Live Twice (1967), now a hyperbolic parody of Thunderball (1965), now a piece of lame slapstick involving an electrical swivel chair.


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