Sentence examples for screwball about from inspiring English sources

If there's anything cheerily screwball about the idea of ripping off a high-school reunion and stealing wedding presents (the Malloys have a pile of them in their motor home, to give to Dahlia), Dahlia's face when we first see her shows us that there's a price to pay.

Caroline Miller, Newser's editor-in-chief, pointed out the recent laugh-out-loud nature of the court's ruling in regard to a middle school strip search, with the court not just being screwball about the law, but dim about over-the-counter drugs, underwear, teenagers, and, generally speaking, modern life itself.

PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER OF NEW JERSEY "Big Boys," a screwball comedy about business and success by Rich Orloff.

And then in 1934 came It Happened One Night, Frank Capra's screwball comedy about an heiress travelling by Greyhound bus.

Inspired by this, his next project will be a screwball comedy about people stuck in a situation they can't get out of.

The alleged lover of president François Hollande is shortlisted as best supporting actress for her performance in Quai d'Orsay, a screwball comedy about a vain French politician.

All of the above is His Girl Friday which you can accept as a comedy or a screwball noir about the disaster of being married.

Aug. 12 THE BAXTER Michael Showalter directed and stars in a screwball comedy about a young man who warily prepares for his wedding to a domineering blonde (Elizabeth Banks).

Tony Roberts, Christine Ebersole and Richard Kind star in this screwball comedy about the mid-Atlantic misadventures of two world-famous playwrights who are Broadway bound with their unfinished plays.

It's a screwball comedy about a woman who organises to have a baby with a sperm donor but at the same time falls for a married man.

Out of gratitude, perhaps, Mr. Kosashvili has placed the porters at the center of his next film, a screwball tale about diamond-smuggling Georgians in love.