Sentence examples for astute comedy from inspiring English sources
It is a broad yet astute comedy of manners which emerges as a monstrous hybrid of Buñuel and Feydeau, with a generous dollop of Laurel and Hardy.
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner shared the best screenplay gong for Up in the Air, an astute comedy about a corporate downsizing expert – the George Clooney-starring movie also made it into the AFI list.
Known for witty and astute comedies of manners, she also helped make the study of children's fiction respectable - and wrote about it in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
All of the approaches used on adult classics are now used on children's classics, sometimes with ridiculous results". Lurie is best-known for witty and astute comedies of manners like Foreign Affairs, The War Between the Tates (1974) and most recently The Last Resort ( 1998 ).
The psychologically astute Australian comedy somehow spins joy from its characters' vulnerability.
It's a bildungsroman, a horror story, an anti-romance, a rocker's manifesto and an astute social comedy.
Brooks is astute about comedy, and Parish, who has written a book about notorious Hollywood flops, is wise to quote him at length, especially since the author has a predilection for adjectives.
Platonic, professional and personal relationships get messed up in this astute brewery-set comedy.
Boshier and the Van Vuuren brothers are producing some of the most astute and intelligent comedy in Australia right now.
Her breakout role came last year, in Joshua Harmon's astute Off Broadway comedy "Bad Jews," about the fault lines of Jewish assimilation.
