The angel's simplistic speeches, delivered in between her grunts and groans, are tedious in the extreme, especially as the farcical juxtaposition between her preachy words and the circumstances in which they are uttered grows thin.
Chekhov, his favourite writer, who's a favourite of the craftsmen too, rarely lays on verbal fireworks, and Wood is likelier to see red over self-conscious formalism - especially if it's farcical or leans on genre conventions - than he is over any deficit of "fine" writing.
What a vivid contrast to the current strutting and farcical jousting, especially by the President, over the national-debt ceiling.
It's both farcical and -- especially from the standpoint of the chickens -- terribly sad.
You probably know, or at least know of, "A Flea in Her Ear," a 1907 touchstone of the farcical repertory that is especially associated with the Old Vic, where it has been revived twice previously.
It! Europa League gold, especially when unselfishness is rewarded in such farcical fashion.
Mr. Frears, working from a strenuous script by D. V. DeVincentis ("Grosse Pointe Blank," "High Fidelity"), maintains a fizzy, farcical tempo without allowing anything especially funny or surprising to transpire.
He linked the move to a much bigger office with increased online activity around the Ukraine crisis, and said that while the trolling can seem farcical, it would be naive to write it off as ineffectual, especially in the domestic arena.
This is especially true in the stories where that miniaturised mental circuitry seems dictated more by the farcical plot-lines than anything else.
Finger spin, especially in the United States, reached a stage where the experts could produce untakable services and the game became farcical.
