Sentence examples for spirited comedy from inspiring English sources

For all the spirited comedy of "As You Like It," true love arrives only after strenuous study and emotional hardship.

For those who do, here's a spirited comedy show that never soft-soaps the grim outlook, but insists that fatalism and scepticism aren't the only options available.

But the hasty summation is a bit jarring -- even for a spirited comedy.

The spirited comedy was entirely performed and produced by advanced-level students of the La Cañada High School's theater department in a prime example of learning by doing.

For a start, Sheridan was not writing a savage satire but a free-spirited comedy in which virtue, in the shape of the amiably profligate Charles Surface, triumphs over vice in the form of his sanctimonious sibling, Joseph.

(Scott) '30 Minutes or Less' (R, 1 23) Even Jesse Eisenberg can't fast-talk his way out of this deeply unfunny, mean-spirited comedy directed by Ruben Fleischer about a pizza-delivery guy kidnapped by two chuckleheads (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson).

So, while I hold no candle for mean-spirited comedy (I criticised my erstwhile hero Doug Stanhope for just that in September), let's not encourage a soft-hearted approach when we need the art form to be as passionate and honest as ever.

More recently, there was "Impromptu," James Lapine's naughty and spirited 1991 comedy, with Judy Davis and Mandy Patinkin in the roles taken by Ms. Binoche and Mr. Magimel here.

Phillips, who wrote the "War Dogs" script with Jason Smilovic and Stephen Chin off a Guy Lawson Rolling Stone story about the real-life gun-runners, downplays an explicit interest in putting the three "Hangover" movies behind him (he also directed the similarly spirited road comedy "Due Date" in 2010).

Actually, though, their feel is playful rather than mean-spirited, their comedy worthy of Koons himself.

George Roy Hill directed this sweet if strangely mean-spirited romantic comedy -- Thursday at 6 p.m. on TCM.