How To Use Farrago In A Sentence
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I therefore have no idea whether Captain Dinwiddie is one of the supreme works of American literature or a pretentious farrago.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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The film is a farrago of trite emotions, one-note acting and embarrassing lines.
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If I'm going to talk about the whole farrago, perhaps it would be best to start by going back to the original report.
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His story was such a fantastic farrago of lies and fantasies that it was thrown out by the Scottish judges.
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And anyway, by the late ’70s, Mr. Hockney had detoured in a half-dozen directions: theater sets and costume design, where the artist showed himself to be a virtuoso; photography, where he did not; and farragoes into Cubist collage, Chinese philosophy and “fax” drawings, as well as the artist’s crazily overpublicized theory that from the Renaissance onward, artists used optical devices to paint in perfect one-point perspective.
The Unconfounding Delight of David Hockney
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This farrago of nonsense requires a very high standard of stylised comedy acting, which is not in vogue in the 21st Century.
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As far as I can tell, it is a farrago of conspiracy theories.
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It may, for all I know, be a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end, but the authors appear to believe that they are dealing in fact.
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After enduring this witless farrago devoid of a single real human emotion and yet somehow scarily, snarkily representative of a generation, some of us may simply want to weep for the future.
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The debt-ceiling farrago showed that old-fashioned bargaining could still work, and both Mr Obama and Mr Boehner showed themselves open to a grand bargain, if only for a time.
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What we have got from both camps is a farrago of half-truths and unproven assertions that are repeated even when shown to be blatantly unfounded.
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What follows is a farrago of mistaken identities and gender reversals, a painful rip-off of Shakespeare in Love without any of the wit, charm or heart.
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No sooner had this farrago of half-truths and complete fiction been discredited then along came the second myth.
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Possibly the best word for it, and it's meant approvingly, is 'farrago.'
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As hardly needs repeating here, Mint's part in the corruption farrago rested entirely on a homonym-inspired error that led him to offer the German FA a side of pork and two kilograms of liver sausage for Berti Vogts.
Helium-sniffing Simeon Troll goes for broke in the mad world of Potya
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Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain" was the first to fall, a ludicrous farrago about the search for eternal life that hops from the Spanish Inquisition to the present and into the future.
Movies: The Good, the Bad, The Hilariously Gross
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The whole farrago is so sublimely bad that it might become a cult classic.
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It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought.
THE SCAR
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What's most interesting about the whole farrago is that a certain floppy-haired Conservative politician has decided to join the travelling circus.
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The result is a farrago of contradictory ideas, with visions of patriarchs dueling with notions of upward-striving capitalists.
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Frankly, what the hapless visitors to the gallery are now being presented with is a farrago of contextless quotes, statements of belief and reports of misleading hearsay.
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Canadian indie bands have, over the past six years, shot farragoes of catchy melodies across the 48th parallel.
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Issue 8 of Farrago's Wainscot, nicely titled Animalia, is now live for all to see.
"Pigment" time
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Why did the parties find it so difficult to reach a compromise, and what will the public make of the farrago?
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The play has been described as a farrago of undercooked ideas and clashing styles by some critics, lauded as a brilliantly unorthodox play of daring imaginative scope by others.
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Either way, it's a farrago of highly dubious nonsense.
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He said: ‘It just adds to the general impression that what we have been treated to is a farrago of half-truths, assertions and over-the-top spin.’
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The opera's plot is the typically confusing farrago of unrequited love, disguises, nobility pitted against treachery, and everything set right at the very last minute.
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I Googled "mumpsimus" after reading this story b/c I thought it'd be a better name for my blog than "farragos".
In a Name
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It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought.
THE SCAR
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Giasone" (1649) is a comic farrago on the Jason-Medea-Golden Fleece tale, with Jason as a serial debaucher, Medea switching from jealous harpy to generous relinquisher of said Jason to her rival Isifile (both women have given birth to twins sired by Jason), and a bevy of clownish servants.
On a Tattered Shoestring
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Posner reviews them all in turn, in a hectic flurry of piled-up fact-bites, speculative calcula-tions, passing quarrels, and offhand policy dicta ” an orderless mixture of assertion, guess, remark, and opinion for which the term "farrago" would seem to have been invented.
Very Bad News
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I therefore have no idea whether Captain Dinwiddie is one of the supreme works of American literature or a pretentious farrago.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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His own books and memoirs are a farrago of half-truth and out-right invention.
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But he has the ability to run with issues, to blend text messages and audience e-mails into the mix, constructing a surreal farrago of opinion and comment.
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An e-zine I coedit, Farrago’s Wainscot premiered earlier this year, featuring experimental, slipstream, and other forms of “weird.”
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Osama Obama's "counterpunch" will be a farrago of "ummms" and outright lies.
Hot Air » Top Picks
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It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought.
THE SCAR
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What it was, instead, was a farrago of paranoia and pretence, hysteria and lies.
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Lacking the grand slam of the GMU's cannon, the Farrago turned to its lesser weapons, gamely firing and firing, weapons crews staying at their stations even though things seemed hopeless.
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At the end of a long week of sexism and counter-sexism, the white heat of the Richard Keys and Andy Gray farrago seemed to fade as quickly as it blew up.
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Henry, ever the pragmatist, considered the farrago of his brother's recent attempted coup, which had ended in the destruction of the Jacobite clans, to have been the Stuarts' last chance.
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It seems you were a bit premature in reporting the destruction of the Farrago" he said with a malevolent grin.
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The whole farrago is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Those are padded out with a farrago of insinuation and unfounded claims that he can produce no evidence for.
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This farrago of nonsense was surprisingly influential, and remains so to this day, though I must admit (having just looked him up) that he got a thorough pasting from his fellow critics even while he was alive.
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Why the UN acquiesces in this obscene farrago is an exercise best left to the student.
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Not a word of all this, which common minds called farrago, but which had its truth to me, did I utter to Laura.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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I'd like to think that Ofcom's more "chiding" comments that Jack highlighted might make future broadcasters and here I mean the production people mainly think more carefully before putting on a similar farrago of nonsense.
Jeni Barnett and MMR: Analysis of the Ofcom Decision
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I couldn't be bothered trawling through the remaining farrago of lazy-minded tripe that our milk-toothed boy has served up for the public to peruse.
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I therefore have no idea whether Captain Dinwiddie is one of the supreme works of American literature or a pretentious farrago.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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Beverly Darmour, Diane Skinner introduced the word "farrago," meaning mixture or medley.
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This farrago of nonsense was surprisingly influential.
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Did anybody emerge from that farrago with even a smidgeon of dignity intact?
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