Sentence examples for intricate farce from inspiring English sources
"As you marvel at the mechanics, the physics even, of his intricate farce, you also see his roots as a journalist exert their modest mischief: His laser-sharp eye zeros in on the very aspects of themselves his characters would most like to hide.
The critically acclaimed Nicola Barker was longlisted for The Yips, the stories of the strange denizens of the bar of "a clean but generic hotel" in Luton, while Michael Frayn's Skios, an intricate farce set around a conference on a Greek island, and André Brink's Philida, which tells of the journey of a slave in 1832 Cape Town, were also chosen by judges.
The complexities of some alliances would not be out of place in one of Congreve's more intricate farces, and the usual requirement for a Muslim bridegroom to convert has meant his marital history has come under new scrutiny.
Until Sunday evening, it was not certain that the government would actually vote, and the intricate maneuvering at times veered toward farce.
Despite Bowie's deep interest in Buddhism, he had no sympathy with the hippy package: the record was a strange mixture of exaggerated, cockney vocals – inspired both by Anthony Newley and Syd Barrett – intricate arrangements and songs that constantly shifted tone and mood, from horror to farce, from Edwardiana to fairytales and back again".
For all the visual elegance of Wilson's production, set in an English country house in the 1960s, it follows Bartlett's lead in treating Marivaux's psychologically intricate study of sex and class as if it were a piece of Feydeauesque farce.
(Those were intricate times).
