Sentence examples for grim farce from inspiring English sources
BEIJING — It has all the ingredients of a future tragedy, peppered with grim farce.
Much of his fiction returns to South Africa, through dark satire or grim farce.
According to the Danish newspaper BT, the events that gave rise to the grim farce occurred in Copenhagen on Tuesday night.
A sketch in which Mr. Étaix's wife turns out to be a vampire seems to lead directly into "Le Grand Amour," a grim farce about the prison house of marriage and the illusory evasion of adultery.
It would be a grim farce for Mr Lloyd George to pilot a bill of which he passionately disapproves, or for the Government Whips to be put on for a measure which most of the party reject.
Sometimes, the grim farce turned more farcical than anything.
When will this ghastly farce end?
I'm not sure whether we're told that he wears a cardigan, but he's absolutely the kind of man - stalwart of many a grim 1970s farce - who would.
Yet the ugliness and farce, the grim vitality of the narrator's world, is often redeemed by glimpses of beauty, moments of humanity, such as when he falls for the Russian girl, Nadezhda (Russian for "hope", and the name of Osip Mandelstam's wife) who "smelled of henna or some Siberian herb".
Brown's use of farce makes the grim, knee-shaking ending all the more inappropriate.
