Sentence examples for get a farce from inspiring English sources

Tina Fey can get a farce set in a contemporary warzone greenlit.

What they got instead was a farce.

"This is getting to be a farce here," grouses Rules Committee member Delbert L. Latta (R-Ohio).

"When Twenty20 started we had a stand-in captain who said as we walked on to the pitch, 'Right, let's get this farce over and done with'.

"You got a feed today?" says Alex Netherton, in reference to this unique farce.

Yen's role here is basically comic relief his romance with Yeoh is basically a Shakespearean mistaken-identity farce but he still gets a few scenes to prove that, even as a sidekick, he's a worthy hero.

On the subject of how performance is understood across the pond, another big question this week is: do Americans really get farce?

Yet even if these things are so, the events leading up to the film's EastEnders-meets-Pulp Fiction climax get closer to farce than demonstrable fact.

As for the "extra" pay, a Walmart worker explained to me that it's a farce: We get time and a half that day, but the next week, they cut hours, so we end up with the same paycheck.

We get dreadful mistimings, worthy of a farce, as when medics try and fail to fold the wheels of a gurney so that it can be loaded into an ambulance.

Dilma will be remembered as the president who staged a farce to get reelected, sent 11 million people into unemployment, put the country into a harsh economic crisis and, above all, defied law and order by thwarting the constitution and the powers of the republic in order to stay in office.