Sentence examples for farcical potential from inspiring English sources

The real genius of "Enough Said" is that it takes this entirely plausible anecdotal circumstance and unlocks both its farcical potential and its latent profundity.

Alas, women are either starved vixens or pious victims in this preening, frankly repulsive tale of a middle-aged florist pimped out to the needy females of New York by Woody Allen's wizened mentor; it's even less appealing than it sounds, dampening any farcical potential by sincerely treating Turturro's character as a benevolent sexual healer.

Busch seemed obsessed with the farcical situation and its potential for physical violence.

In 2014 they launched Bitelabs, a farcical biotech company pushing the potential for artisanal, in vitro meat grown in a laboratory using celebrity muscle tissue.

But if the political reality of a country founded by the very words "We the People... .. was farcical, it too held revolutionary potential in the language of its articulation.

Reprieve's Maya Foa said in a statement: "It beggars belief that the UK is taking a 'business as usual' approach to a country where hundreds of people, including children, face potential death sentences in farcical mass trials.

Carried away by Internet mania and the nirvana of the "new economy", investors piled into companies with farcical business plans and little or no profit potential.

The flimsy maquettes, barely held together with tape, conjure deep as well as farcical thoughts about architecture's history and its potential.

Space weather sounds almost farcical as a term taken on its own, but the potential impact on Earth is no joke – a 1989 blackout that spanned the entire Canadian province of Quebec, for instance, can be attributed directly to the results of a significant solar storm.

But perhaps farcical is the wrong word, because farce suggests something comic or with comedic potential.

When Le Monde noticed the hard-to-miss pairing at the bridge, it characterized the opposition to the glass façade as a potential tragedy, Paris once again losing out on an architectural advance, with the locks on the bridge more farcical, confronted, quixotically, by "two New York women now settled in Paris".