Sentence examples for farcical convention from inspiring English sources

That seems to have reassured the waverers.The PMDB backed Mr Serra during a farcical convention, at which dissidents started a brawl but government supporters easily won the day.

In 1995 it pulled out of a farcical "national convention" drafting a new constitution.

It should stop shooting protesters; free all political prisoners, including Miss Suu Kyi; scrap the constitutional guidelines drawn up by its farcical "national convention"; and start serious talks with all groups, including Miss Suu Kyi and her party.

Chekhov, his favourite writer, who's a favourite of the craftsmen too, rarely lays on verbal fireworks, and Wood is likelier to see red over self-conscious formalism - especially if it's farcical or leans on genre conventions - than he is over any deficit of "fine" writing.

Even some party leaders described the convention as all but farcical.

Drafted by a convention boycotted by Miss Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), it was foisted on the country in a farcical referendum in 2008 (a 92.48% "yes" vote on a turnout of 98.12% in a poll held just after the devastation and chaos of Cyclone Nargis).

But farcical.

Another farcical event.

The farcical aspects.

It's farcical".

The idea was farcical.