Sentence examples for great farce from inspiring English sources

Panics, and moral panics especially, make for great farce in retrospect.

It typifies a great farce performance in which innocence is corrupted by experience.

The larger problem comes when Washington is so full of tragedies that it begins to look like one great farce.

Mistaken identity makes for great farce, and, paradoxically, identical twinship provides a way to examine what makes us different.

But, for all the verve of John Mortimer's adaptation, I'd say Lindsay Posner's production is pleasantly diverting while rarely achieving the dizzying dementia of great farce.

Scott Ellis's production of Orton's great farce of sexual hypocrisy, which also stars Alec Baldwin, is breezy, often funny and rarely convincing.

"That was a great big farce, but I was young and dumb and it worked," Huffins said.

That lusty self-interest is the motor of all great farces.

And so the complications abound, the idea being that Molière was inspired by actual shenanigans to compose his great farces of later years.

Like all great farces, "The Italian Straw Hat" is as much concerned with order as disorder; Fadinard's world spins around furiously but never topples.

It's hard to imagine a greater farce.