Sentence examples for farcical about from inspiring English sources

The media were farcical about Greenham.

There is nothing farcical about the pain of wanting to belong.

There's something farcical about pretending to be scared of monsters that aren't there.

And, even though Alexei dies a valiant death, there is something farcical about the gun-toting anarchy that greets his attempt to disband his regiment.

There was something farcical about the show (it began with flashing strobe lights, a woman in a bikini and lots of cameras; someone was making an independent movie), and Pink Eyes kept apologizing for it.

What's been farcical about the Bush presidency so far is how quickly his smug policy assertions, and not just about Mr. Putin, are upended almost instantaneously by events or facts (some of them supplied by his own administration).

Magazines don't print serious articles about spacecraft sightings, which are commonplace, just farcical stories about alien babies born to neighbours.I have a friend who visited me last summer.

The flimsy maquettes, barely held together with tape, conjure deep as well as farcical thoughts about architecture's history and its potential.

In "Quainty Dainty Me," a farcical fantasy about being delicate and refined, Ms. Sokol becomes a ludicrous coloratura soprano and buffoonish ballerina.

(312-335-1650) www.orgppEXITlf.org "EXITHEHE KING" Eugene Ionesco's tragic farce (or is it a farcical tragedy?) about the dying King Berenger I, whose two wives are counseling opposite strategies for facing the end.

He might have thought differently if he had seen the work of Roberto Benigni, an Italian comic actor who made farcical parables about serial killers and Mafiosi, before he too took on the Nazis in his 1997 Oscar-winning film, "La Vita è Bella" ("Life is Beautiful").