How To Use Farcical In A Sentence
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No matter how outlandish and farcical some of the events become everything remains firmly grounded in a sense of reality.
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The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it.
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This was a farcical situation.
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But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots.
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This dramatised story of his life matched its subject by being the most farcical depiction of an artist I think I've ever seen.
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The whole idea of the proposed redevelopment of the centre is farcical, unnecessary and at odds with what many people really want.
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It sounds absurd but the entire episode has been so completely farcical that one can hardly believe that it took place at all.
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You are doing an admirable job of reporting this farcical event and I trust you will continue.
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The characters are still frequently allegorical, but the comic or farcical element is more prevalent, the versification tends to doggerel, and they are shorter than the moralities.
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And unluckily just missed a farcical interlude, for the chief accountant, accused of embezzling public funds, was attacked and chivied from the town with a petroleum can on his head.
High Albania
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DP NCOP member James Selfe said it was "very unfortunate" that the first formal NCOP meeting of this nature "ended in a situation which can only be described as farcical".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The industrial action descended into some farcical episodes.
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No matter how outlandish and farcical some of the events become everything remains firmly grounded in a sense of reality.
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And the resolution to this scene is exquisite in its chutzpah and farcical bad taste.
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No, thankfully, or the situation could have ended up in an ever increasingly farcical court case.
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Mollycoddling may be farcical, but at least it's safe.
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But the political and military problem goes much deeper than this almost farcical set of circumstances.
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That's a farcical bureaucratic morass.
The Sun
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Lucky Jim may survive in the memory as a series of farcical moments, but it is also a tightly plotted novel.
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What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all.
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The whole episode was farcical.
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Almost every important issue descends into a farcical search for hidden agendas - which can be infuriating for those of us who want to debate the issue on its own terms.
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Over the past five years, each have contrived to reduce the events to farcical levels, at least once.
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It's an extraordinary system in America, quite different from the farcical situation here.
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There are now ample teachers and he agrees that to take the food away from tables so teachers can have pleasant morning stroll is farcical.
Ironic Ducks
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Their farcical swearing-in ceremonies stating their dedication to the Fiji people are worthy of nightclub comedy sketches.
Global Voices in English » Fiji: Court rules military government illegal
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This turn of events was later described by a judge as a farcical about-face on the part of the Council.
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No credible system of justice can tolerate such a farcical imbalance of power between contestants.
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As the man beguiled by a boy who's a girl, he plays it straight (not farcically), exposing the entertainer's weakness for falling in love with love, no matter the gender.
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Sometimes painful and often farcical it is a journey that introduced them into a whole new world.
The Sun
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She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical.
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As protectors of the European heritage which has flourished for centuries, European Union parliamentarians should be ashamed of forcing Macedonia, a state which in the past has done so much for Europe, to accept a farcical name like "FYROM".
WN.com - Financial News
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Sometimes painful and often farcical it is a journey that introduced them into a whole new world.
The Sun
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In some areas closures are already beginning to affect the quality of treatment, producing some farcical situations.
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I am amused by the farcical notion that the greatest nation needs to be educated and saved by a meathead ironworker … We live in a fantasy SamJoe the wannabe plumber world …
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Pets and dolls have taken the place of children in farcical-but-sad rituals previously reserved for children.
REVIEW: The Children of Men by P.D. James
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The farcical situation by which he can represent his country, but not himself in his country 's premier meeting does the sport no good.
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At this point the story takes a bit of a farcical turn of events.
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This is the source of the play's farcical energy, the spark that ignites its passion and its black comedy.
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'geographical Carnival,' as we called the farcical Congress of last
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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[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
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The result is a mixed platter: Hilariously absurd one minute, farcically annoying the next, and damn surreal all of the time.
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A farcical trial speedily followed, in which he was charged with "incivism" in that he had damaged public health by adding water to tobacco.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Public hearings on controversial draft legislation likely to have a substantial impact on the pharmaceutical industry were described as farcical by opposition political parties after amendments to the legislation were submitted as soon as the hearing began on Monday morning.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Kg will wind up replaced by the collective weight of participating artists, a farcical mathematical game.
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It is preposterous, ridiculous, almost farcical.
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I don't know if I should use the word farcical, but I think most of the teams you could pick without running through the thing about licensing.
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But when the plot broadens in the second act - with the pair joining forces to take revenge on Ata's aforementioned, good-for-nothing husband - the action becomes farcical and unconvincing.
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We do need some clarification on this farcical situation.
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As for your farcical assertion that whales were a “post flood adaptation”, this is manifest garbage, given that the [1] your fantasy flood never happened, and I can point to numerous consilient reasons from reality why your fantasy flood never happened, and [2] the fossil ancestors of whales pre-date your fantasy flood by about 50 million years.
Battle in Beverly Hills: Reflections on the Prothero/Shermer vs. Meyer/Sternberg "debate," Nov. 30, 2009 - The Panda's Thumb
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He said: 'It was pretty farcical.
The Sun
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The 'stout' is even entering story, not for farcical effect either.
Stylish Stouts
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The subsequent debacle of all three is farcical as well as despicable.
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There's a kind of blobby lawlessness in Sweden, and too much bureaucratic arbitrariness its farcical if you're an upper middle class journalist from the uk, oppressive when you have to live with it. even if its benign its tyranny when lives are dependent on bureaucrat whims and power heres a letter signed by 15 Swedish lawyers complaining if the very low evidential requirements- a reverse burden of proof - leading to many miscarriages of justice in
The Guardian World News
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The word farcical would bestow a generous description on "Scopes II".
A Kansan's Contemplations
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This is farcical administration of the immigration law and it demeans the very concept of national interest.
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Threats to sue the Football League and create a new competition with no offsides or draws were just farcical.
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The situation is farcical, and passengers remain stuck in the middle.
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Molière's Le Malade Imaginaire we find catharsis pre - sented in a farcical situation: Clysterium donare, Postea seignare, Ensuita purgare (“With a clyster deterge, then let the blood spurge, and finally purge”).
CATHARSIS
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the wild farcical exuberance of a clown
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For a real slam-bang ending, express doubt as to which election is more obviously a farcical fiction designed to promote corporate interests.
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But the upcoming farcical scenes have a serious side.
The Sun
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The winner came amid farcical scenes with fans just getting back to their seats in the West Stand after a fire alarm went off.
The Sun
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There is a still more remarkable one south of the equator, called the Coal Sack, as a sort of nickname that has a farcical force from its very inadequacy.
Two on a Tower
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There were farcical scenes at the count.
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What is surprising is that this farcical situation was ever allowed to develop in the first place.
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The current situation is farcical.
The Sun
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It's farcical situation, more so now that so many clubs are living hand to mouth.
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She is their foil, the object of their farcical delusions and snobbish assumptions.
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Besides, his thinking and writings on humor paid attention to the aesthetic value of humor, which includes farcicality , wittiness, naughtiness, irony and laugh.
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This questioning then logically extends itself to artistic forms, where, in black comedy, the most serious subjects are given, not a serious or tragic treatment, but a satirical and even farcical one.
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Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical.
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Plans for a national ID card scheme have been branded ‘farcical’ after suggestions it might misidentify people with brown eyes or men who go bald.
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Descripci ? ? n: Dashan tells the story of his mentor Jiang Kun's farcical attempt at learning English.
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Macedonia, a state which in the past has done so much for Europe, to accept a farcical name like "FYROM".
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Nor are any of them particularly likeable, which allows a comic mood to prevail even when events darken - Laurence's death, for example, is more farcical than it is tragic.
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It is preposterous, ridiculous, almost farcical.
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William thinks it's farcical and plays it up but amongst friends incognitos are simply unfunny bores.
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While I can imagine that he might value his daughter's ridicule of the undignified and embarrassing aspects of his final illness as a farcical, tragicomic gag at his own expense, I believe that he would be "inexpressibly sad," a phrase he used, for the world to learn that he died unliked and unloved by one of his own children.
A Roaring Literary Lion
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Don't take the spotlight off this farcical situation until the offenders are arrested.
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Our transport infrastructure in the UK is farcically inadequate for a developed nation.
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a farcically inept bungler
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It was a strangely farcical routine, and must be extremely tedious to enact day after day.
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The national telco is pissed that ISPs are undermining their businesses, which rely on charging farcically high rates for long-distance, and they've gotten their pals in government to strong-arm all the ISPs in the country.
Boing Boing: November 3, 2002 - November 9, 2002 Archives
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The situation sounds farcical because it is farcical.
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Please help end this farcical situation.
The Sun
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I realize that these memos were considered to be just the neo-con musings of people like Mr. Yoo and that every administration has drawn up contingency plans for every circumstance from the tragic -- such as nuclear attacks on Washington, D.C. -- to the farcical -- such as invading Canada.
Those Secret Memos
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Playing devil’s advocate for a second, I have to conduct sickness reviews on staff and I refuse to get involved in farcical ‘Action Plans’ like the examples above.
Swine Flu Threat To Police Officers. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Amid farcical scenes he managed to get a copy of Ulysses impounded at the docks, despite the reluctance of customs officers.
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Lots of farcical situations arise, which it would be unsporting to divulge.
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When the first play comes to its hilarious, farcical close the audience is left gasping for air.
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Rounding off an exceptionally well-filled and desirable disc is a handful of Poulenc miniatures, ranging from the vulgarity of his early Valse via the farcical Manes de la Tour Eiffel pieces to the rumbustiously jolly Matelote provencale.
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It's farcical situation, more so now that so many clubs are living hand to mouth.
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He also faces a travel ban pending investigations on what he called "farcical accusations" of inciting violent protests in December.
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Rarely can a career have been so riven by almost farcical contradictions.
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The play reveals in farcical fashion, the secret lives of electrical appliances, making full use of the radiophonic possibilities.
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Indeed, for visitors, part of the entertainment onboard the junk ultimately came from watching Chinese crew members participate in farcical tableaux vivantes that presented a grotesque versions of Chinese customs.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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There is a still more remarkable one south of the equator, called the Coal Sack, as a sort of nickname that has a farcical force from its very inadequacy.
Two on a Tower
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For my own criticism of the farcical parody of so-called "lustration" in Poland, I would refer him and other readers to my column in The Guardian, May 24, 2007.
'The Stasi on Our Minds': An Exchange
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The idea that the fact of having perpetrated the holocaust gives Germans credibility in preaching is farcical.
Is That Legal?: Uncle Leo's Kennkarte, Sixty-Five Years Later
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He says the amount doesn't faze him at all, although he admits the investment is reaching ‘a farcical level’.
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They're so enormous, so stratospheric, so downright farcical that all I can offer in response is a kind of hollow laugh.
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Circling from farcicality to irony and humor, at last returning to farcicality, comedy ends in absurdism, too.
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The attempt then to portray Al Gore, who rejected the subterfuge, as the one who was funking national debates was farcical.
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But, in farcical scenes, he was initially stopped from going back on because his new shirt did not have a number.
The Sun
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In the farcical comedies we have low vulgar swearing unworthy even the refuse of society; while in the _comedies larmoyantes_ (_weeping comedies_) and tragedies, we have eternal imprecations of the deity, indicative only of madness in literature.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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Mr. Clooney, playing the scion of a Hawaiian land-owning family beset by trouble both tragic and farcical though it is not always easy to tell which is which, undergoes an effective deglamorization.
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The latter problem became almost farcical.
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The whole situation has become farcical.
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In 2006, he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years during a trial that his legal defenders described as farcical.
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It is alarming that surgeries are bogged down by farcical officialism and red tape, instead of leaving medical staff to use their own discretion.
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It is simply a matter of preposterous and farcical behavior by a hegemon.
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But he seems to be taking up a sideline in churning out farcical, desperate attempts to demonstrate the harms of atheism now too.
A God-Shaped Hole in the Data