screwball
Example Sentences
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Hollywood thrived in this tough decade partly by catering to people’s need for fantasy and escapism, through screwball comedies, adventure stories and the elaborate musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Despite the screwball setup, “The Hitch” is, as much as anything, a moving meditation on loneliness, longing and familial short leashes.
That’s priceless in a screwball murder movie in which everyone’s soul is for sale.
From Los Angeles Times
Scratch just beneath the film’s screwball surface and its beating heart as a food movie quickly reveals itself.
From Salon
In spirit, however, this redo is pure 1930s screwball comedy.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
