| 单词 | screwballism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈscrewballism ˈscrewballism n. originally U.S. (a) crazy or eccentric behaviour; lunacy (cf. sense B. 1); (b) Film the screwball style of comedy (see sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema > movements or genres neo-realism1908 screwballism1942 Free Cinema1956 nouvelle vague1959 New Wave1960 cinéma vérité1961 Cinema Novo1963 romcom1963 ciné verité1965 teensploitation1983 1942 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 3 Apr. There are so many good isms that the one who would be all-inclusive in his denunciations may be guilty of screwballism. 1974 S. H. Scheuer Movie Bk. 190 William Powell playing the servant to a whole wacky family in My Man Godfrey,..or Claudette Colbert smiling her way through Midnight,..immediately come to mind as high points of screwballism. 1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 July A retro comedy that combines the screwballism of the thirties with the squeaky-cleanism of the Doris Day of the sixties. 2004 Evening Standard (Nexis) 16 Aug. a64 This redheaded pixie..could have dropped straight out of a Woody Allen movie. But there is sadness behind the screwballism. < as lemmas |
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