Sentence examples for farce element from inspiring English sources

A character is foreshadowed for 150 pages without then bothering to appear; jokes are repeated, absent, or just rubbish; the opening is a third-hand account of a tedious academic committee meeting; no one speaks or behaves like a human being; the farce element is unsophisticated; and the efforts to shock are feeble.

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.

"Despite the element of farce, the BBC is right to see this as a damaging breach of its contract with license-fee payers," The Daily Mail said in an editorial.

Deutschland 83 is walking a very interesting line here – for the past three weeks there has been an element of farce to many of the proceedings but, in reality, the stakes are incredibly high.

Cue an element of farce with the officials engaging in lengthy dialogue as to how to proceed, before the Warriors scored a try their second-half efforts deserved – Jaba Bregadze finishing off a driving maul.

The staging was modern, and made use of projected floor plans, to heighten the element of farce as lovers hid and entered and exited rooms.