Sentence examples for farcical figure from inspiring English sources
The referee sent him to the stands, where Wenger cut an ignominious, if farcical, figure for the last 30 seconds.
Now those rapists have been replaced by the farcical figure of the sexual opportunist who switches genders for a look inside the women's room.
Ken Stott's splendid Vanya has an earthy Scots bark and a twitchy, irascibly hapless sense of his own futility – fiery with shame at the farcical figure he cuts as he casts glances of doggy devotion at Yelena, the beautiful young wife of his fallen idol, and congealing, eventually, into a heart-rending mask of shattered disappointment.
To teach you that the Bible is farcical?" I had to figure out what was making this break up with Daniel's heroic stories so tough and where I would go from here -- as a seminarian and as a Christian.
Mother!" This anguished moment, brought home by Mr. Birney with a radioactive intensity, is followed by the play's almost farcical climax, as Vanya lurches from a tragic figure to a comic one, storming back onstage to make a ludicrous attempt to avenge himself by shooting Serebryakov.
To most city planners, a figure like that would have sounded almost farcical.
He pans figure-skating, gymnastics and boxing for their farcical judging; he condemns those who deny that doping poses a lethal threat to sport as roundly as those who cheat.He blames such problems in part on the IOC's own shortcomings, laid embarrassingly bare in the Salt Lake City bribery scandal.
As farcical as this scenario is, Mr. Libeskind emerges as a sympathetic figure despite himself: a victim of the dream he must have wished for.
The book's scenario is absurd – farcical – but author, Timur Vermes, said that he had painted Hitler as a human figure precisely to make today's Germans have to think hard about him.
