Hence this sparkling and consistently amusing comedy, by turns broad and sophisticated.

But Mr. Lee is after something more broadly accessible, a sparkling, colorful and utterly contemporary comedy of manners.

Today's hot performance artist in some dim cafe is next week's star on a sparkling comedy special made for pay cable.

Joanna Berry of Radio Times gives it four stars out of five, observing that this "sparkling comedy" proved to be a career-resurrecting movie for Julia Roberts.

He continued to write sparkling comedies until 1854, the date of his last piece, The Heart of Gold.

The best material in the picture is sparkling, drawing-room comedy, like the exchanges between Graham and Lecter.

And it could turn out to be the sparkling romantic comedy that no doubt everyone helping to get it off the ground intended it to be.

Balanchine's affectionate version of a Frenchified commedia dell'arte ballet by Marius Petipa ("Harlequin's Millions") is a sparkling comedy.

Rossini's sparkling comedy, its main offering for the holidays, is led by the experienced conductor Richard Owen.

Donizetti's sparkling comedy "La Fille du Régiment" is in the cards.