Sentence examples for how farcical from inspiring English sources

ELIZABETH KOLBERT: I'm sure you're right, and I suppose it's just another sign of how farcical this conversation is.

He also showed that he could ground any situation, no matter how farcical, and make us easily identify with whichever character he was playing.

As in the novels of Jirí Weil, Michel Tournier and Bohumil Hrabal, humour in The Zone of Interest seeks to show how farcical and bizarre the Nazi project was.

How farcical became clear early in the new session, when a photographer with a telephoto lens captured the text of a note that Berlusconi sent to two young female deputies, Gabriella Giammanco and Nunzia De Girolamo, on the Chamber floor: Gabri, Nunzia, you look great together!

Additionally, there is some obligatory mock-topical chatter ("blah blah blah Patriot Act blah blah blah Orange Alert blah blah blah cyberterrorism"), which, far from adding to the atmosphere of tension and suspense, only emphasizes just how farcical and harebrained this movie is.

That is how farcical the situation has become, and the drop-off in attendances across the board this season is surely a reflection of the growing disillusionment of rugby league supporters with the current system, and of the myopia of the clubs and the Rugby Football League in failing to tackle the issue last winter.

Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister and Sheffield Hallam MP, said: "Everyone deserves a full explanation of how this farcical situation was allowed to happen.

The difference is that Sennett knew just how much farcical invention an audience could take, whereas Chomet seems so caught up in his own surreal conjurings that he could easily, if unchecked, allow them to fizz and crackle on forever.

It was farcical how they were there.

Mass casualty events like these, whether they occur in elementary schools, movie theaters or night clubs, and the impotence in our political system to respond affirmatively, call for a new social compact in the U.S. The usual prayers, vigils and consolation icons that replace Facebook photos are now farcical with how quickly they change to recognize the latest atrocity.

Recounting the almost farcical story of how a group of Cuban fighters set off to save Congo's revolution, only to need saving themselves, a lesser individual would have been tempted to airbrush his memories.