Sentence examples for screwball as from inspiring English sources
Using a screwball as his primary pitch and relying on outstanding control, he had a career record of 133-92 and an earned run average of 2.92.
The back and forth between the pair, like a lot of the script, isn't quite as smart and screwball as it could be.
Everything about Stanwyck, whatever the mood of the movie, bears a slight graze of screwball, as if, deep down, Ruby Stevens was sly enough to have rumbled mankind for the untrustable species that it was.
With the screwball as his "out pitch," McGraw led the International League in 1967 with a 1.99 E.R.A., and he was on the way to the Mets to stay.
The dialogue on "Studio 60" has a slower, more stately pace than the "West Wing" banter, which is also surprising: the best comedy writers in Hollywood turn out to be not nearly as quick-witted and screwball as campaign managers and policy advisers in Washington.
With her signature mop of curly hair, ready smile, penchant for good food and wine, and delight in all kinds of film – she loved westerns and screwball comedies as much as the emergent cinema of Iran and Palestine – Sheila lit up the festivals she hosted and attended.
As in classic screwball comedy — as in the best of the genre, such as Howard Hawks's "Bringing Up Baby" and "Monkey Business" — the insurmountable magnetism of sexual compatibility is the force that rules or ruins the world.
Producers like Whizzkick in Germany and Screwball in Poland as well as large Hardcore Breaks raves in Spain and Tenerife have led to the UK big boys waking up and taking notice.
The screwball comedy was as funny as many better-known 1930s classics.
A Taser, mallet, cactus and fondue pot are used to inflict screwball misery here, as are fire ants and crab claws.
"The structure is very theatrical — I wrote it like that deliberately and took the American screwball comedy as a reference," wrote Mr. Almodóvar, who cited Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen and Busby Berkeley as his favorite directors of film musicals.
