Sentence examples for Good farce from inspiring English sources

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In good farce the situations may be absurd, but the characters are real.

In a way, putting on a good farce had become a civic responsibility.

(As for "Lend Me a Tenor," I happen to like good farce, but felt Mr. Ludwig's simply wasn't an accomplished one).

All good farce starts from a plausible premise: a randy shrink seeks to divest a would-be secretary of her clothes in order to seduce her.

As with all good farce, the plot is arguably credible, not least because grisly murders often take place in remote French villages.

Even here one must beware of passing hasty judgment, for it may be that the grandest design for heroic tragedy may be less affecting than the teasing vision of human madness portrayed in a good farce.

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And as in any good funeral farce, there's an uninvited guest (Peter Dinklage in both versions).

Lend Me a Tenor, though it flopped recently in the West End, was that rarity, a really good musical farce.

In the last decade, the only good new farce I've seen is Whipping It Up by Steve Thompson, though strictly speaking it was more of a satire.

The humor is mostly good-natured farce, but the dignified, handsome Professor Oglevee Dorien Wilsonn), with whom Nikki is smitten, seems intended to keep the genteel Cosby legacy alive.

Of course, with Brits in charge (and I cannot tell a lie, I helped) the whole thing started to descend into good-natured farce, with panelists being voted on and off by the crowd and at one point an American panel volunteer declaring that she'd clearly been born in the wrong country.

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