Sentence examples for black farce from inspiring English sources

Black farce".

Books My favourite is Joseph Heller's Catch-22, which captures the black farce of war.

My situation has transformed from Kafka-esque bewilderment to black farce incredulity," he said in his statement.

My situation has transformed from Kafkaesque bewilderment to black farce incredulity," he said.

This deeply serious, utterly hilarious black farce was a runaway international success.

There are moments of black farce too: "The Israelis were planning to occupy Lebanon up to the Litani River.

Robert Collins in the Sunday Times hailed it "an outrageous comic riot, delivered as a tear-inducingly funny and pitch-black farce".

Xan Brooks of The Guardian wrote, "Roman Polanski has rustled up a pitch-black farce of the charmless bourgeoisie that is indulgent, actorly and so unbearably tense I found myself gulping for air and praying for release".

The difference was that West chose to play all this as a pitch-black farce, and his critical stance at least anchored the tale in some presumption of reality.

With this stealthy adaptation of the Yasmina Reza stage play, director Roman Polanski has rustled up a pitch-black farce of the charmless bourgeoisie that is indulgent, actorly and so unbearably tense I found myself gulping for air and praying for release.

"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964): Kubrick's pitch-black nuclear farce started off 1964 with high style and doomsday paranoia.