Sentence examples for farcical element from inspiring English sources

But the Profumo scandal had a farcical element, and never involved a serious intelligence danger.

It is no accident that most of his examples are drawn from Molière, in whose work the farcical element is strong, and from the farces of Bergson's own contemporary Eugène-Marin Labiche.

Wilder himself was always vague about how much he took from Fanfaren Der Liebe, maintaining he kept the basic, farcical element of cross-dressing musicians, and chucked out everything else.

Whatever, Lodge, now 78, is generous: "There's a broad farcical element in his work, but it has a family resemblance to novels set in universities dealing with the relationship between staff and students".

Barbara's mother (Ann Penfold), a Mrs Tiggy-Winkle with means, supplies the spry farcical element when she arrives to deliver a moral lecture to the lovers, followed by her equally irate and ridiculous husband (Col Farrell).

The so-called peace process is a farce, and the Palestinian Authority is its most farcical element.

There were farcical elements to the whole incident.

The deception of the Kittredges and their society pals always had its farcical elements.

The seduction scene between her and the writer Trigorin caught the farcical elements in the play.

The director, Charlotte Moore, keeps the farcical elements from becoming too broad and stages the crowded plot with practiced economy.

However, his two-dimensional parents do little more than enliven the more farcical elements of the narrative.