How To Use Screwball In A Sentence
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According to The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, the incurve was the “pitch now known as a screwball.”
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
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Cutter is no suave sophisticate, but Grant's background in vaudeville honed his comic sensibilities and paved his way to wonderful performances in classic screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby.
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Set in 1958, the screwball plot involves false identities and a literary hoax, chock-full of distinctive wisecracks delivered at breakneck speed.
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Although it sounds like a madcap, screwball comedy, this film is a very touching drama about what lengths a young man will go to protect and care for his mother.
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It is a subject familiar to us from screwball farces, and one from which a straight drama could also be drawn.
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Based on a 2003 novel by Robert Kaplow, the movie is a coming-of-age screwball comedy in which Zac Efron, lately of "High School Musical," plays a stage-struck high-school senior who unexpectedly finds himself playing a bit part in "Julius Caesar.
Relishing a Lost Production
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Add in a wacky collection of colorful local screwballs, and this series is a timeless recipe for pure comedy gold.
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They aren't all screwball reports by any matter or means.
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They were a collection of misfits and screwballs who became the terrors of the South Pacific.
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Jonathan Demme's twisty 1986 screwball-meets-noir is a celebration of multi-cultural Americana, clever cameos like John Waters as a gas-station attendant, and mix-tape grooviness.
Taiwan to India
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“Only that my brother thought I was a bit of a screwball who studied hydrostatics at the university.”
Firestorm
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Usually this happens when they say something in a very haughty tone that doesn't make any sense, as though I should have anticipated their screwball question.
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What do you aspire to if the content business is all about filling airtime cheaply or being a screwball night after night?
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Her character befriends an ageing screenwriter and learns a few lessons in classic Hollywood screwball romances.
Times, Sunday Times
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a screwball proposal without a prayer of working
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A straight-laced Wall Street banker gets mixed up in one ludicrous misunderstanding after another in George Gallo's screwball comedy.
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She turns the film from a quietly droll comedy of manners into a screwball farce.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether it's action films or screwball comedies, most Hollywood movies focus on beautiful young characters.
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‘The third strike on every one of them,’ Hubbell once recalled, ‘was a screwball.’
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Like many great screwball comedies, the film keeps rolling and rolling on pure, uninhibited energy.
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You'll learn the rules of offense and defense, and all about fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs.
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She turns the film from a quietly droll comedy of manners into a screwball farce.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mae is a serious role, but Lombard's smart-alecky tough dame isn't far from the screwball heroines for which she's best remembered.
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However, since this was the 1980s, the liberation is for Cathy, not Alan; the screwball romance becomes a tale of feminist emancipation from stifling domesticity.
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A person who behaves eccentrically is a "screwball.
Baseball Today and Tomorrow
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A Service Pilot in one of my flights north had reported to Operations that I was a crazy, screwball pilot and that he was scared to fly along side me.
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Jimmy Stewart’s self-consciously down-to-earth writer in The Philadelphia Story thinks he has rich Katherine Hepburn pegged from the beginning, but by the end, he’s not so sure; Hepburn’s high-toned brittleness is something of a façade, her ex-husband Cary Grant shows the sort of cunning that other screwball comedies might have assigned to an average Joe, while her up-by-his-bootstraps fiancé, played by John Howard, proves a rather dull fellow indeed.
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Here was a woman noble enough to act the fool, and smart enough to make screwball comedy feel like a serious art.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film is a pastiche of screwball and noir, full of fast talk, funny banter, and venetian blind shadows.
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Which is why it is so surprising when he does blunder, as with this screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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An opportunity to create a classic, timeless satire was squandered by going for a cheap attempt to soften the film into a screwball comedy.
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Too bad they loused it up with predictable plot elements and assorted screwball humor.
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Viewed as a screwball and rebel by his teachers, he was a rare wit who provoked laughter and sometimes rage.
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Vaudevillian attempts at wacky accents and screwball banter lack rhythm and come off as flat as week-old pop.
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I am extremely sorry that you have allowed a bunch of screwballs to come between us.
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There was a scary moment when some screwball in an RV wouldn't let us pass on a country road.
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Even scarier is the prospect of this party coming to anything with the screwballs they have in their ranks.
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Few pitchers in the majors throw screwballs, but the Devil Rays have two in RHPs Jeff Sparks and Jim Mecir.
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They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.
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Tirabuzón is a word for corkscrew, which is sort of what Fernando's Sunday pitch, his screwball, looks like to National Baseball League batters as it twists and dips.
The Music of Mexico
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By the end of that campaign, he still got 20% of the vote, but apparently some people just like a screwball.
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With his flair and instinct for comedy, he became famous in the ‘screwball comedy’ genre, which was all about the foibles and eccentricities of people.
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• "His Girl Friday" 1940: The definition of snappy banter and a prime example of the great screwball comedies of the era.
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To me, Li'l Shia seems born for screwball comedy; he has a ring-a-ding Joey Bishop-on-amphetamines style of delivery that never skips a syllable.
Michael Bay, movie-making maverick?
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So, is this screwball comedy actually funny?
Times, Sunday Times
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It's just so strange: the popularity of cinema exploded in some part due to screwball comedies, which were gender-blind in their joke distribution.
Bridesmaids: how a chick flick won over a feminist
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Spahn was a port-sider who relied on his heater until a knee injury forced him to develop a screwball, which became his out pitch over the latter half of his career.
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You know, there's a screwball quality to you.
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‘Any screwball who says this is blaming employees is doing nothing more than making irresponsible speculation,’ he said.
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Whether it's action films or screwball comedies, most Hollywood movies focus on beautiful young characters.
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Is Australia's comic style too laconic to fit the rapid-fire style of a classic screwball?
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They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.
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The film is foremost a screwball comedy, albeit one with considerable tang.
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Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity.
When Life Depends On Scrabble
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The language of the game changes substantially in every generation; a rising fastball becomes a four-seam fastball which becomes a four-seamer, a forkball becomes a split-fingered fastball which becomes a splitter, a drop curve becomes an overhand curve which becomes a 12-to-6 curve, an incurve becomes a fadeaway, a fadeaway becomes a screwball, and now almost nobody throws a screwball but people throw a circle change-up that does the same thing, sort of.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
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Many are reluctant to throw that 82 mile-an-hour screwball because they're afraid they're going to be changing the scoreboard with just one bad pitch.
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The batters had to wait, watch for the spin and break of the screwball.
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‘You guys are a bunch of screwballs!’ the girl said and stomped out of the shop.
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This screwball harpy is out to change America, and trust me – most of the people posting on this site will not be welcomed in her America.
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Like many great screwball comedies, the film keeps rolling and rolling on pure, uninhibited energy.
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Still, much to your chagrin, you find yourself occasionally tickled by the screwball antics of the likable cast of characters.
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Clark may be a lot of things, but a screwball he's not.
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The DVD case insert calls it a screwball comedy, but it's really more of a domestic one.
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It's a latter-day screwball comedy waiting to happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another modern attempt to make a classic 1930s screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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This film tries to revive the screwball comedy, yet despite wit and some hilarity, the main characters are just not likeable enough.
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One might assume that the incurve is simply the reverse of the outcurve, which would be the reverse of the curveball … which is to say, a screwball.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
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One might assume that the incurve is simply the reverse of the outcurve, which would be the reverse of the curveball … which is to say, a screwball.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
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The actor gets to play two characters in this outrageous little comedy, a sort of screwball gangster film.
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Indeed, Sturges' screwball comedy Sullivan's Travels, about a playboy director who goes slumming to experience the life of the common man, was supposedly modelled on his new best friend.
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It's a latter-day screwball comedy waiting to happen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity.
When Life Depends On Scrabble
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Setting the play in the 1930s, she took her inspiration primarily from classical Hollywood screwball comedies and films noirs.
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There's enough manic imbecility, though, to maintain the film's screwball tone.
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We usually compromise on a screwball comedy or an episode of Poirot.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The information panel said it was a screwball comedy, and I love a screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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What screwball idea would they come up with next?
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The film was written and directed by Preston Sturges, a director known for the subgenre of ‘screwball’ comedies that he perfected with ‘the Sturges touch.’
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After some lean years, the spirit of indie US cinema is alive and kicking again and this may be the most anarchic romantic comedy since the heyday of screwball.
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The film has the vitality and verbal fireworks of a classic screwball comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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If voters had any brains, they would find a way to ensure that she has much more time on her hands to pursue her screwball theories.
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However, the question remains: with all these goofy and screwball side effects, how in the heck did it slip by the radar of the FDA?
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He says it's all about writing around the idea or inspiration he has in mind, be it a pie in the face, a witty line, screwball situation or piece of music.
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You'll learn the rules of offense and defense, and all about fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs.
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They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.
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Doesn't that make us both just a couple of unworthy screwballs?
