Sentence examples for for farcical from inspiring English sources

For farcical purposes, Mamet is quick to add financial desperation to Smith's woes.

It shows Ms Reza's gift for farcical escalation, familiar to fans of her hugely successful plays, "Art" and "God of Carnage".

In 2007, the family opened another restaurant, their third, in North Providence, a close-knit town of 32,000 people with a reputation for farcical local politics and occasional corruption.

Clare Foley, as her 7-year-old sister, who gets off such unnatural lines as "I have no friends; I'm anti-social," is likewise a creature from a script a deliberately contrived little baggage, loaded for farcical laughs.

The controversial sacking of Alistair Edwards midway through last season was a harbinger for farcical scenes out west, and Perth Glory remained in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

There are several reasons for the farcical tussle for control in the West Wing, but the primary one is the man in the Oval Office.

Over the credits for this farcical show, Levin lobbies for more time with our future leader.

In 1896, the impresario Milton Bode approached Leno with a proposal for a farcical musical comedy vehicle devised for him called Orlando Dando, the Volunteer, by Basil Hood with music by Walter Slaughter.

Instead of the satirical, it goes for the farcical.

This picture was directed by Leo McCarey, who reveals a decided aptitude for handling farcical incidents.

The comic action sequences try for sharp farcical spoof but fall short.