Sentence examples for bitter farce from inspiring English sources
And what then degenerated into bitter farce may yet end up, this time round, in tragedy.Three days that shook KievIn 1917 tsarist Russia vanished within just three days.
PLANNED as a solemn celebration of national reconciliation, the 50th anniversary of Hungary's failed uprising against Soviet rule has turned into a bitter farce, the victim of the country's savagely polarised politics.
The G.O.P. representatives were absolutely correct in thinking that the Trump years are shaping up to be a bitter farce, in terms of good government, and a tragedy in other ways bereft, for example, of real efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable Americans.
But taken in small doses, one bitter comedy or frothy farce at a time, Coward's work goes down easily.
That is, assuming everything here is true, and not just the second installment of a multi-album musicanovela in which he and his wife portray bitter lovers bound together by fate, fame and farce.
Mocking Brutus's high-minded need to believe that the conspirators will be "sacrificers, but not butchers", the assassination scene is a protracted, messy shambles, a mixture of nightmare and farce as Greg Hicks's Caesar clings on to the bitter end under a frenzy of stabbing.
The two decade-long bitter collapse of the Charles and Di fairytale might almost have been designed to demonstrate that no level of royal farce could be turned into a republican opportunity.
To really appreciate farce, to roll it languorously over your tongue like a fine wine, you need to be old, bitter and bruised enough to recognize it as the essence, the perfect distillation, of the misery and futility of everyday life.
