Sentence examples for farcical approach from inspiring English sources

"This attempt to spin diplomatic failure as a success is just the latest example of this administration's farcical approach to Iran," he said.

On the other hand, the American novelist John Barth showed in The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) that mock historical scholarship preposterous events served up with parodic pomposity could constitute a viable, and not necessarily farcical, approach to the past.

That could not justify lifting American and international sanctions, he said.Another Republican White House hopeful, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, offered a broad-brushed attack on Mr Obama as a feckless leader, calling the announcement "just the latest example of this administration's farcical approach to Iran".

Both plays share the same themes of child-rearing and fatherhood but where Haunted Child was a spooky tale of a mother raising her son alone after her partner disappears, Birthday promises a more farcical approach and will star Stephen Mangan as Ed, a man about to become a father for the second time.

Thing is, the authorities' current attitudes epitomise the UK's farcical approach to drug policy: make people to scared to talk about drugs; pretend they're not there; and do nothing to protect and support people from the potential dangers of taking them.

Thing is, the authorities' current attitudes epitomize the UK's farcical approach to drug policy: Make people to scared to talk about drugs; pretend they're not there; and do nothing to protect and support people from the potential dangers of taking them.

With "The Allergist's Wife," she said, the approach is "almost farcical".

For him to lead the investigation now is almost as farcical as the PA's entire approach to date.

The Adkins case was the first of six encounters with the law that Kevorkian faced throughout the 1990s, approaching them as increasingly farcical stages for political theatre, even donning 18th-century dress and entering the courtroom in stocks.

In 1896, the impresario Milton Bode approached Leno with a proposal for a farcical musical comedy vehicle devised for him called Orlando Dando, the Volunteer, by Basil Hood with music by Walter Slaughter.

When they do approach police lines, there tends to be a bit of farcical posturing, but little else.