Sentence examples for bleak farce from inspiring English sources
The wedding, scripted by Shields, is rendered in "Open" as bleak farce, from the ceremony in the ritzy coastal town of Carmel, Calif.
As this gruesome affair has degenerated from brutal tragedy to bleak farce, those interests have been relentlessly disregarded by officials, politicians and the courts.To recap: Magnitsky worked for Hermitage Capital Management, once the biggest portfolio investor in Russia.
Yet the horror stories penned by the 72-year-old from this comforting, professorial warren in Beijing are so savage and excessive they could almost be taken as the blackest of comedies; the bleakest of farces; the most extreme of satires on fanaticism and tyranny.
But those echoes are stifled by a farce plot so bleak and unfunny that it freezes your responses after about forty-five minutes.
"Burn After Reading" has plenty of momentum short, tight-knit scenes of people arguing, driving, screwing, fighting and, if you listen hard, you may hear echoes of a portentous old Capitol Hill drama like "Advise and Consent". But those echoes are stifled by a farce plot so bleak and unfunny that it freezes your responses after about forty-five minutes.
The younger doctor does get better at his job, but that ultimately doesn't make much of a difference to the lives of the locals, and the method he uses to escape all the suffering slowly flips the surreal farce into a bleak tragedy.
Characteristically it was the Sternheim adaptation by CP Taylor which hit the jackpot, transmogrified by Ockrent and Taylor from the bleak, ironic original into a gorgeous farce.
Are these bleak portraits of hope-starved lives meant to be farce or tragedy?
Applying her formidable skills as a puppeteer, Rendell encourages the members of this cast to indulge their various obsessions in a plot that unfolds with the bleak gravity of Greek drama while following the insane logic of French farce.
This list lists toward bleak comedy, which may suggest an alignment of current personal tastes, prevailing national mood, and a televisual trend of mining tragedy for farce.
