Sentence examples for farcical aspect from inspiring English sources

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If the title "The Fat Man, the Dwarf and the Laundress" sounds like a takeoff on a de Sadean romp, it catches the movie's farcical aspect, which veers amid more sobering matters.

Sometimes the scene had a farcical aspect: "These old pimps used to tell me, 'Well, I'm coming in tonight, Jimmy Scott, with four women, and you better sing that song".' But Scott could relate all too well to an underlying loneliness at the social margins.

All the same, take care to make the exaggerated and farcical aspect absolutely clear within the context, in order to reduce the chances of a successful action being brought against you.

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The farcical aspects.

The revival, which stresses the play's farcical aspects, is directed by Roger Rees with a cast that includes Katie Finneran and Paul Michael Valley, above.

There's a feeling of artificial urgency that emphasizes the play's farcical aspects without being very funny.

The trial begins, in the nursery, with toys as judge and jury, to heighten the farcical aspects of the actual proceeding.

And it's a difficult play to perform: the actors must convey the farcical aspects of the plot while maintaining a naturalness of expression.

For most of the nation's history we avoided the most farcical aspects of today's confirmation circuses through the simple device of never having the nominee appear.

The staging, lavishly furnished with dancers, supernumeraries and beautiful costumes designed by Anna Watkins, is almost everywhere a joy, though Mr. Blin gives in a little too readily to the farcical aspects.

One of the farcical aspects of being a school parent over several decades, as I have been, is the way we see slabs of curriculum come and go, often for no better reason than a minister of education fancied it.

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