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Meanings of slapstick in inglés

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Style of comedy.

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Slapstick.

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Examples for "slapstick comedy"
Examples for "slapstick comedy"
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To go from the kind of, sort of slapstick comedy to quite serious analytical passages.
The new yorker
2
Born in 1921, Tillieux grew up in Belgium loving cinema, slapstick comedy and crime fiction.
The Guardian
3
Each has a compulsory wet-sari scene, some slapstick comedy, and several gun battles or fistfights.
The new yorker
4
Finding the leg holes, and then the individual toe holes, was, as usual, slapstick comedy.
Seveneves
5
A slapstick comedy was showing on the store's TVs.
Watch them die
Usage of slapstick in inglés
1
The Carry On movies were a long-running series of modest-budget, slapstick comedies.
Wired
2
Tragedy and slapstick run through the film and it is very funny.
The Guardian
3
It's part classic animated slapstick, part new-school ensemble sitcom, and all weird.
Wired
4
Both teams continued to attack relentlessly and defend with slapstick energy.
The Guardian
5
The Mendy-Sissoko channel in particular was home to some slapstick moments.
The Guardian
6
It is deliberate, more subtle than slapstick, and the political messages are many.
The Irish Times
7
Apparently we had exchanged enough slapstick and insults, because his tone turned serious.
Man in the Middle
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After Kabosh's stunning, unnerving Box comes the absurd slapstick of Tinderbox's The Chairs.
The Irish Times
9
Once, most of them actually had a praise for the slapstick.
The South African
10
There are times when their pursuit becomes dangerously close to a slapstick routine.
The Reality Dysfunction
11
Bulletstorm,a gleeful opera of gory slapstick, is in a category all its own.
The Irish Times
12
Picture a slapstick, slow-mo boxing match, each flailing blow landed by a boomerang.
Wired
13
Yes, it stoops to slapstick too often, and probably could have taken more risks.
Wired
14
No one does slapstick paranoia quite as Thomas Pynchon does.
The Irish Times
15
Funny should come close to hurting, or it's just slapstick.
Audrey's door
16
Gremlins was a blend of violent slapstick and moral decency.
The Guardian
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