Sentence examples for exuberant comedy from inspiring English sources

Mike Leigh's exuberant comedy Happy-Go-Lucky and Steve McQueen's Bobby Sands drama Hunger managed just three nominations each.

One exuberant comedy of 1938 that never left the Ballet Russe repertory was "Gaîté Parisienne," Massine's evocation of 19th-century Parisian night life.

Set in pre-Depression New York City, Mallon's exuberant comedy of errors pits two glossy magazines in a circulation war sparked by the defection of an ambitious editor.

Mitchell is not a director to whom you would turn expecting traditional dapple, languor – or exuberant comedy – and you don't get it.

What makes Khan-Din unusual is that he opts for exuberant comedy and views the subject from a historical perspective … What lifts the play off the ground is Khan-Din's hilariously accurate picture of family life.

But that says quite a lot about Sue Townsend: she was born with a natural gift for exuberant comedy and, although she'd known hardship, didn't seem to have an unforgiving bone in her body.

In one of his most exuberant comedies, De Sica sounds the howling depths of despair.

At the work's premiere, in 1829, Rossini was 37 and the most celebrated composer in the world, the creator of exuberant comedies like "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" and "La Cenerentola" and sober tragedies like "La Donna del Lago" and "Otello".

It's a grotesque situation that Niccol renders as exuberant black comedy.

(Dargis) ★ 'Silver Linings Playbook' (R, 2 00) David O. Russell's exuberant new comedy tracks the feverish, happy, sad, absurdly funny ups and downs of a head case (Bradley Cooper) just as he returns to his parents' home after eight months in a mental institution.

(Holden) ★ 'Silver Linings Playbook' (R, 2 00) David O. Russell's exuberant new comedy tracks the feverish, happy, sad, absurdly funny ups and downs of a head case (Bradley Cooper) just as he returns to his parents' home after eight months in a mental institution.