Sentence examples for farce from from inspiring English sources

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Regardless, the game was a farce from the moment it began.

THE VALET Another busy French farce from Francis Veber ("The Dinner Game").

THE VALET Another busy French farce from Francis Veber, the director of "The Dinner Game".

The episode had elements of sheer farce from the very beginning.

Directing it himself, Foley should prove he knows his farce from his elbow.

Besides which, the whole thing felt like farce from the moment it happened, even to the family.

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That is the basic formula behind many of the best romantic farces, from "Ninotchka" and "Moonlighting" to Hillary and Bill Clinton.

A typical procedure was farcing (from the Latin farcio, "to cram"), to skin and dress an animal, grind up the meat and mix it with spices and other ingredients and then return it into its own skin, or mold it into the shape of a completely different animal.

Instead, in the week since I suggested this strategy, the Senate's discussion of its health care bill has devolved from farce to tragedy, from public policy discussion to an insider traders' deal-making session, in which female and male senators alike are trading the lives of American women for the sake of re-election and keeping their corporate donors happy.

These shots, stripped of audio, seem not like parts of the "Star Wars" universe but, instead, like rejected scenes from Woody Allen's low-fi, science-fiction farce "Sleeper," from 1973.

Between 1702 and 1704 he wrote The Inconstant (adapted from John Fletcher's Wild-Goose Chase), The Twin-Rivals, and The Stage-Coach, a farce translated from French.

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