Sentence examples for a farcical display from inspiring English sources

And increasingly, those critical lenders are seeing the fiscal decision-making of the United States being transformed into a farcical display of political expediency.

A similar predilection for irony is present in Fable (2010), a vintage photograph (c. 1870) depicting a group of Russian Cossacks proudly showing off their kill (a dead tiger) is turned into a farcical display.

Instead, let's concentrate on the match that crystalised him as a clown in the eyes of many neutrals, an endearingly farcical display against Manchester City on Boxing Day 1981 which, at the time, appeared to signal the end of Liverpool as a major force.

Re "Step Right Up to the Anatomy Lesson," by Francis X . Clines(The City Life, April 10), about the farcical display of real human bodies currently on view in Manhattan: We have no way of knowing if people around the world, including those living under oppressive regimes, gave full informed consent to donate their bodies for this.

What other country is continually vilified for human rights violations by farcical displays at the United Nations, often by undemocratic, totalitarian regimes that brutalize their own citizens?

As that oft forgotten line in Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrmann tells us: even if you have just been bowled out for 80 after giving one of the most farcical displays of batting against spin in years, remember you are still world champions and No2 in the ICC Rankings.

The worst of it was that Skelton kept everything, not only her husband's imploring love letters, but the legal correspondence of their divorce ("Our client instructs us he will pay Peter Jones' account for £13.2s.6d and the account of Phelps Beddard for £19.1s.3d" ran one of these missives) and, equally injurious, her memory of episodes calculated to display her inamorata in a farcical light.

A farcical sexual dalliance.

IT WAS a farcical solution.

It was a farcical episode.

"It is almost a farcical decision.