Sentence examples for element of farce from inspiring English sources

DEFENCE procurement in India has a big element of farce.

There is an element of farce about the latest submarine hunt in the Stockholm archipelago.

There was an element of farce to mix into the haplessness of the play.

Beauty and death: the aesthetic runs all the way through Caravaggio, Jubilee, The Last of England, though there is always a leavening element of farce.

As time went on, so such matches became tinged with an element of farce; Liverpool were a team who could always snatch defeat from the jaws of dignity.

If there was an element of farce to the final knockings, there was also something a little jarring about Eoin Morgan's insistence afterwards that England would "take the positives" from their seventh consecutive defeat on tour.

Shakespeare and Molière eventually came to use elements of farce in their comedies.

The anecdote, like many that Brock tells, has elements of farce.

The film's climax is a crescendo of mortal suspense that also includes elements of farce.

The play has plenty of physical humor and elements of farce.

MPs were critical of the directors, with committee chair, Louise Ellman, saying there were elements of farce in the engineering works.