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  • Instinctively they turned their back on the farce staged by the trade unions.
  • It was so obvious they have had contact since NZ and this was a scripted farce to deter us from the fact that Jason Mesnick the most hated man in America and his ice princess walk of shamer Molly WERE CHEATING. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • The stage is set for high farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our foreign aid policy is a farce. The Sun
  • The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
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  • For that matter, why does a would-be bedroom farce also try to utter philosophic profundities?
  • She is a talented farceur, too, and there are some superb set-pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
  • The book's showbiz scenarios mock theatrical and film prototypes and stereotypes - the revolving cast and their scrimshank plaster-of-Paris mise-en-scene go round and round on the book's gigantic turntable, a shambolic revue, a whirlwind farce ... Comments for RealityStudio
  • Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
  • The present pose of horror adopted by media and government officials with regard to revelations of torture by the military is a sordid farce.
  • It is a farce and a fraud when teachers' unions talk about a need for ‘certified’ teachers, when certification has such low requirements and when uncertified teachers often have higher qualifications.
  • Appointments have become a farce, and more so under the present government. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then came a moment of low farce and high controversy. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the pensions negotiations edging towards farce, ministers fear that if they continue to mishandle the issues, there is a greater risk that they will lose the PR battle and the public could end up supporting the teachers and civil servants if and when they go on strike. The Age of Strife: pay packets and pensions divide coalition Britain
  • Anyone who thinks it through or reads about economics will come to the conclusion this pander is a farce. Schneider: Gas tax suspension proves popular
  • He talks mostly about his role in transforming the screenplay from drama to farce.
  • Between 1776 and 1794, Cowley produced ten comedies, two tragedies, a farce, and many poems.
  • More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
  • It even sponsored theatricals, and Wilson not only directed two but, incredibly, also performed in a cross-dressing role as Tom Carberry in The Spirit of 76 -- a highly popular farce of this time, exploring what might happen if gender roles were completely inverted. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
  • From time-to-time, an unevenness in tone is evident, as the movie swerves between bawdy farce and melodrama.
  • The AWB on Monday said it would refuse to take part in what it called the farce of the Tebbutt Commission. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Doors have seldom opened and slammed shut with more dizzying rapidity in a stage farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • WHAT a ridiculous farce our politicians have inflicted on themselves over pay. The Sun
  • The eyewash of the trial of the accused US marine is really a farce.
  • Sport's big farce takes place today. Times, Sunday Times
  • On stage he has played character roles in farces, pantomime, comedies and serious drama.
  • This annual pantomime has turned into farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • A farce with all the sophistication of cheap tinsel ensues. The Sun
  • By any objective standards, the case has been a farce from the start.
  • Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! Farcir - French Word-A-Day
  • It was like a French farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
  • Just sorry one of the great rugby stories had to end in a French farce. The Sun
  • It entails boy's-adventure jolliness, raffish character comedy, social satire, dialect humor, maybe-metaphorical farce, a parody of morbidly sentimental verse. Books on Southern Humor
  • It was a farce of a goal which needed about four TV replays to establish exactly what had happened. The Sun
  • This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce.
  • Sometimes fakir, sometimes farceur, he dominates the scenes in which he appears.
  • All too often supposedly top officials turn highly entertaining games into a farce with over-the-top bookings.
  • The Democrats, in their permanent role as agonistes in the long-running farce called "Democracy," just lie. Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • Even a provocative farceur has to pay attention to a number like that. Times, Sunday Times
  • Disaster was narrowly averted and a measure of farce was injected. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • McCall Smith deals in the comedy of character, rather than in farce.
  • On stage he has played character roles in farces, pantomime, comedies and serious drama.
  • Do you paint it as high farce, or just go for a swaggering thrill ride? Christianity Today
  • The movie is a sly comic romp that transforms the realities of rock and roll into a fantasy farce about joy, fame, and isolation.
  • All we produced was a French farce. The Sun
  • It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
  • But, in the space of 48 hours, what sounded on Sunday like an imminent threat to financial targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington has metamorphosed into an imbroglio of disarray and confusion, with a dash of farce thrown in.
  • I will haf your bromise, your sacred wort of honour, before I will gollaborate again, that you will no more blay with me these farces. Despair's Last Journey
  • The race became somewhat of a farce as the small field was depleted with four retirements along the way. The Sun
  • But the incidents and the relationships developed along the way give it a wily balance of farce and sentiment.
  • The great tragedy ended in farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Twelfth Night," among the dizziest and most farcelike of his romantic comedies, bears a definite family resemblance to the damn-the-torpedoes craziness of such classic examples of the genre as "Bringing Up Baby" and "The Lady Eve. What's Up, Bard?
  • The glory of the samurai sword, vulgarised to the point of farce in Tarantino's Kill Bill, is treated with respect, even awe.
  • Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad.
  • The great tragedy ended in farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because they have no alternative, which makes the so-called tricameral parliament a total farce. INTERVIEW WITH MAYIBUYE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA IN GENERAL, 1984(1)
  • The farce could be snappier, the dancing tappier — but it's a pleasurable show. Times, Sunday Times
  • At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
  • The match was reduced to a farce as heavy snow swamped the pitch and reduced visibility like a fog. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rest of what was put on was mostly farce; light comedies, very often French, sentimental tear-jerkers and vaudeville.
  • A farce with all the sophistication of cheap tinsel ensues. The Sun
  • The vaudeville act of "The Fighting Keatons" concentrated almost completely on the category known as knockabout farce. Instant Education
  • The short Feydeau farcettes were originally written as curtain-raisers for Parisian audiences who expected more for their money than one straight play.
  • Should we call it tragedy, or farce? The Times Literary Supplement
  • Perhaps it is a case of the British becoming more blasé, less easily shocked than the national stereotype and a mountain of British farces on stage and screen would have you believe.
  • Whether melodrama, farce, or even tragedy, it holds the attention.
  • Perky, painless and politically correct, this frothy little farce benefits from a remarkably trim running time.
  • There is a heavy dose of French farce with its crude language and plots based on trickery. The Times Literary Supplement
  • He uses various comic conventions such as satire, farce, absurdism, and irony to attack widely divergent cultural philosophies, politics, and ethics.
  • The play was a cross between a farce and a tragedy.
  • The drama was accompanied by no small measure of comedy and farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • But if a college culture tolerates and fails to properly investigate, adjudicate, and punish serious sexual misconduct, then it debases campus life, makes a farce of campus "conduct codes," and may leave the college's reputation in ruins. Bennett L. Gershman: Campus "Justice" Shows a Culture of Complacency
  • It descended into a bit of a farce in the scrums, which is not unusual these days. WalesOnline - Home
  • This featherlight farce has one of the oldest, clunkiest plots in cinema. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'As for you, mademoiselle,' said I, 'you are a farceuse.' Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
  • The dear mayor and his cronies have not found the time or had any desire to end the farce.
  • The spirit of the Whitehall farce is demonstrated in an incident ten days ago when a Cumbrian farmer was about to witness eight slaughtermen start to destroy his sheep flock.
  • He knew, then, that he would have to tell the next audience and every other that the playlet is a farce, Writing for Vaudeville
  • The trial was a mere farce.
  • A slight combination of bittersweet drama and featherlight farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • The play suddenly changes from farce to tragedy.
  • Latest madness in my farce - we can no longer take the word of a member of the public who has reported a cime, and then decided that in fact no crime took place. Names Will Never Hurt You « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • I also know white people there that will say they hurt their backs and get crocked lawyer and doctor and about a year later they will throw away the cane and those that know him will say he got his social security supplemental income check he threw away the cane and laugh about it when they know it was a farce. Bill Clinton weighs in on charges of racism against Obama
  • It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
  • It's become a big farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our school dramas tend towards comedy and farce.
  • Even the natural born cynic will be won over by this board/bedroom farce.
  • Since then these "farced" forms have happily disappeared. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • This gave the following explanation of ‘fricandoes’: ‘a sort of Scotch collops, made of thin slices of Veal well larded and farced, which are afterwards to be dressed in a Stewpan, close covered, over a gentle Fire.’
  • She is a talented farceur, too, and there are some superb set-pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the closing stages the game almost descended into farce as a thick freezing fog had enveloped the pitch reducing visibility drastically.
  • Don's most popular poem during his lifetime was "Noah an 'Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith," a rambling farce, told in backwoods dialect, about three fishing buddies with unique knowledge of the subject at hand. Maxims and Light Verse
  • Dickerella, " in which women and men pair off for trips to a local burger Joint named Dick's, has become a farce.
  • It even sponsored theatricals, and Wilson not only directed two but, incredibly, also performed in a cross-dressing role as Tom Carberry in The Spirit of 76 -- a highly popular farce of this time, exploring what might happen if gender roles were completely inverted. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
  • Almost all current writing about Africa depends on a blend of Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh: the brooding, throbbing stagnation of the Congo and the sinister farce of egomaniacal "Afrocentric" politics. African Gothic
  • The stage is set for high farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • This legislation is a farce, and it will cause a huge waste of time and money for the courts.
  • He walks the tightrope between drama and farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • It defies any genre classification, because it can go from insanely heavy drama to light farce in a heartbeat.
  • The story has elements of tragedy and farce.
  • George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare have used farce to highlight patient vulnerability to unscrupulous physicians.
  • It's frothy fun that turns bucolic Britain into one big bedroom farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although saved from the uncomfortable task of explaining to Ellen the sham she created, Gale found that the consequences in continuing with the farce were just as unpleasant.
  • Part soap, part farce, the series is undeniably slight, a feelgood bubble of bawdy froth.
  • A supposedly famous photographer in the sixties, he was now most famous for the farce and frequency of his suicide attempts.
  • The film pays loving tribute to the striking machinists at Ford's motor plant via the vehicle of the bawdily unreconstructed class-war farce, referencing everything from The Rag Trade to the Boulting brothers 'I'm All Right, Jack to Carry On at Your Convenience. Made in Dagenham
  • The pantomime descended into tragedy last week and this evening became a farce.
  • At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
  • How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce?
  • In this sleazoid farce where characters cackle like horrific hens in a sexual slaughterhouse, individuals coexist in insular states of self-absorbed eccentricity.
  • Mr. Sulzer, a Democrat, called his trial “a farce, a political lynching, the consummation of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office.” Joining the Ousted Governors’ Club - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
  • This is now more true than ever and I am of the opinion that if the pyramids, or more specifically the Great pyramid, was built solely for burial purposes of the given King (Khufu/Cheops) then it was and will remain an unprecedented farce. Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • The stories range from the heart-warming to the bone chilling, without ever giving in to sentimentality or farce.
  • Further:The spectre of Greece being plunged into ungovernability -- as if the political shenanigans and ongoings in Athens do not already resemble a Moliere farce – will, it seems, save Papandreou's skin. Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011
  • The complaints system is often a farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • The great tragedy ended in farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • But these films - through drama, thriller and farce - move the most demonised figure of our times to centre-screen.
  • Just sorry one of the great rugby stories had to end in a French farce. The Sun
  • It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
  • This was a career-aborting farce from a no-talent screecher. Adam Lambert on his AMA vocals ('kind of a mess'), Elisabeth Hasselbeck ('we're very different'), and CBS' subtle message ('homosexuality is dangerous') | EW.com
  • The deregulation of the electricity market this weekend was " an absolute farce ", independent power providers claim.
  • The play comes over as both an astute social comedy and a door-slamming farce.
  • The whole situation is a farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • The situation is one of farce but it is of your own making as you have been and still are unable to comply with the basis of providing a timeous supply of good quality material.
  • For the less gullible among us, the administration's alarmist rhetoric in 2002 was a grim farce, and the unfolding of the nightmare we see today was a foregone conclusion.
  • Some of her performances were not just memorable, but unforgettable particularly in recent years when the comedienne in her surfaced in pantomime and farce.
  • Scenes of farce, tragedy and horror flicker between bursts of comedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Athletics has veered dangerously close to farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • His direction is tight, keeping a brisk pace and gaining the most out of broad farce and high drama.
  • Don Pasquale is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers.
  • Dickerella, " in which women and men pair off for trips to a local burger Joint named Dick's, has become a farce.
  • Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • The whole procedure has become a complete farce.
  • The plot often borders on farce.
  • He would, with the greatest of ease, before of weighting midhook, by dear home trashold on the raging canal, for othersites of Jorden, (heave a hevy, waterboy!) make one of hissens with a knockonacow and a chow collegions and fire off, gheol ghiornal, foull subustioned mullmud, his farced epistol to the hibruws. Finnegans Wake
  • There is a heavy dose of French farce with its crude language and plots based on trickery. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A certain ginger senior ‘police officer’ who has been the source of controversy over the last few years recently went out with a specialist unit of his large farce. Stop Press « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The tone could change effortlessly and sensitively from farce to tragedy in the space of an episode.
  • Instantly, their bumbling antics transform the movie into a juvenile farce of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs—no, it's not funny.
  • It is not a slapstick farce, it is a comedy of character and relies on the audience observing the detailed interplay between the singers.
  • Even the lovers' tiffs become high farce and the enjoyment is enhanced, not hindered, by the fact that it is performed by an all-male cast.
  • So long as it prevails the show is thrilling and stupendous; the moment it fails the show is a dull and dirty farce.
  • His writings, which include more than thirty-five comedies, farces, adaptations, comic operas, and other light-hearted stage entertainments, were collected in 1798.
  • He was also a superb farceur on the stage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her trial was a tragedy compounded by farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sour Grapes '' is nothing to look at -- it's sitcom drab -- but David has the requisite ruthlessness of the true  farceur,   willing to follow the tale's dark logic to its dottiest ends. Gambling Debts
  • It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date.
  • Is the point that life is empty and pointless - a farce of creation without function or utility?
  • Light Up the Sky (1948), a rackety farce that Hart pretentiously described as "Shavian," is occasionally revived, but chiefly before the undemanding audiences for dinner theater and summer stock. Moss Hart Stars in Act Two: A Charmed and Troubled Life
  • I say, despite the bad reviews, it certainly fits the bill if you are looking for light frothy farce.
  • From this flawed start the report descends into farce.
  • One former Penn State professor called his high-minded words on academics a farce. News
  • I have never seen farce more keenly orchestrated and sanguinely enacted, the blatantly laughable always tinged with the bitingly caricatural, the fantastic, and the outrageous, without the slightest loss in basic humanity.
  • ’ It is, to use a word of the time, ‘farced’ with conceits; it needs straining. VI. On the Capital Difficulty of Prose
  • Others there be that fall into the contrary vice by vsing such bombasted wordes, as seeme altogether farced full of winde, being a great deale to high and loftie for the matter, whereof ye may finde too many in all popular rymers. The Arte of English Poesie
  • The trials were a mere farce since no judges were present at all.
  • McCall Smith deals in the comedy of character, rather than in farce.
  • The digital video work looks a little rough here and there and the action borders on farce, but Tadpole has plenty of fun and sent me out of the cinema smiling.
  • At this time enter sheer farce: when prop Stuart Murray had to leave the pitch Kelso had no cover and the game took on a new turn.
  • The whole situation is a farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • But he had a passage in First as Tragedy, Then as Farce that I thought was highly relevant to this discussion, in which he talks about the threat of privatization (by capitalism) of three different “commons”: the commons of culture, the commons of external nature (i.e., the precipitation of ecological disaster) and most relevant for our discussion here, the commons of internal nature, which he defines as “the biogenetic inheritance of humanity”: Half-Centaur, Half-Chimera: Humanism and Science Fiction | Goblin Mercantile Exchange
  • It is a comic farce set in a house of many perversions.
  • The play was a cross between a farce and a tragedy.
  • But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead.
  • In the course of the evening, you get a thriller, a comedy, a drama, and a farce, which, together, add up to a feast of first-class theatre.
  • Knowing who was servant and who mistress, I entered into the spirit of the farce.
  • An annual freshman icebreaker called "Dickerella," in which women and men pair off for trips to a local burger Joint named Dick's, has become a farce.
  • The rest of her theatrical career was mainly spent as the lead in plays and farces, some of which were enormously successful.
  • It starts off as a slapstick farce, then tries to provide some commentary on the notion of marriage in this day and age before settling into portraying clichés.
  • The lunch was copious, and consisted, I remember, of all such dishes as are generally considered mischievous and too good for the schoolboy digestion -- lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs and numberless delicious flavours; besides sauces, kickshaws, creams, and sweetmeats. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
  • In dramatic composition, the equivalent of the Short-story is the one-act play, be it drama or comedy or comedietta or farce. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
  • At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
  • About eight hundred regulars could be counted on to attend each production, be it drama or farce.
  • [1] I admire the _first_ sincerely, and in turn call upon you to _admire_ the following on Anacreon Moore's new operatic farce, [2] or farcical opera -- call it which you will: The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
  • I prefer farce to tragedy.
  • Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Her trial was a tragedy compounded by farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's frothy fun that turns bucolic Britain into one big bedroom farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • People call authoritatively for the 'Joy of Life' and theatrical managers call for farces, as though the Joy of Life lay in being foolish, and in describing people who each and every one are suffering from St. Vitus 'dance or idiocy. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
  • Our foreign aid policy is a farce. The Sun
  • Only light comedy survived as a distinct genre akin to farce.
  • Surprisingly, for all his sex farce foolishness and ridiculous ribaldry, Benny Hill knew what was funny.
  • He didn't foresee, though, that the farce would become a permanent fixture in our cultural life.
  • I took it as a cue to end the farce.
  • ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce,’ a puckish German wit once quipped.
  • It's become a big farce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Disaster was narrowly averted and a measure of farce was injected. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
  • The trial was a complete farce.
  • Let's hope the tough words from the White House mean that this tragic farce won't continue for much longer.
  • Even a provocative farceur has to pay attention to a number like that. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sandwiched in between are three foot-stomping farces that make you wish you didn't consume any liquids before the show.
  • More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
  • The match was reduced to a farce as heavy snow swamped the pitch and reduced visibility like a fog. Times, Sunday Times
  • The French word farce is derived from farcir, going back to the Latin farcire which meant "to stuff. Farcir - French Word-A-Day
  • Sport's big farce takes place today. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience.

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