Example sentences for: slapstick

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

  • Indifferent reviews for the second live-action version of a Jay Ward cartoon to star Brendan Fraser (the first being George of the Jungle ). It's a "genial" film with "lots of broad slapstick humor that kids like and adults wince at" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few critics are outright irritated--it "disappoints in every way possible," says Kenneth Turan (the Los Angeles Times )--but most are just mildly annoyed.

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

  • After the canned, B-movie sloganeering of Ronald Reagan and the slapstick linguistic pratfalls of the Hollow Man, George Bush, it was (and is) a thrill to watch a president who not only thinks magnificently on his feet but gets a near-sexual charge out of doing so.

  • The screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman, is a genius at finding slapstick correlatives for people's nebulous sense--or non-sense--of themselves.

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


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