Sentence examples for farce on from inspiring English sources

Wasserstein's first play, Any Woman Can't (1973), is a cutting farce on one of her major themes a woman's attempts to succeed in an environment traditionally dominated by men.

I defend farce on two grounds.

This was farce on quite an amazing scale.

Malcolm X called the 1963 March on Washington "the Farce on Washington".

The playwright in Frayn imposes the accelerating pace of farce on his grave, tenderly evoked materials.

Nonetheless, Adam rents a film — a flighty-looking farce — on DVD, and watches it at home.

Irony piles on farce piles on irony, generously larded with art-history expertise.

I've made a case in the past for the savvy cream puff that is Showtime's "Episodes" — one of the few genuine sex farces on cable television, which too often favors pretentious dramedies or dank satires.

Rix also ran repertory companies and presented more than 90 farces on television in the 1960s – to huge audiences – starring the big names of the day, such as Dora Bryan, Sid James, Sheila Hancock and John Le Mesurier.

Yet the pantomime continues, the charade goes on, the farce is on the march.

"This is a farce trial going on," he said.