Sentence examples for level of farce from inspiring English sources

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We said usual level of farce.

So on the level of farce "2 Days in New York" provides some good, sloppy fun.

There was the expected level of farce, the Proudman clan trotting from stage left to stage right, Nina nearly giving birth in transit, Billie in earnest-overdrive.

In acting as though the bill still has a chance, McConnell may be undertaking another Trump-like maneuver: reducing matters of state to the level of farce.

The pretense of opposition reached the level of farce last February when Obama vetoed a UN security council resolution calling for implementation of official US policy (also adding the uncontroversial observation that the settlements themselves are illegal, quite apart from expansion).

In parallel, the political system has been increasingly shredded as both parties are driven deeper into corporate pockets with the escalating cost of elections – the Republicans to the level of farce, the Democrats (now largely the former "moderate Republicans") not far behind.

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Maradona's time as coach did indeed regularly veer into the realm of caricature and comical levels of farce, and at times the face-off seemed to be stuck in a stalemate.

Pointers as to the levels of farce that might ensue could be drawn from the experience of poor old Liam Jones two seasons back, when the then 23-year-old spearhead wanted away from the Western Bulldogs.

You're as likely to find slapstick gags as witty one-liners about Jungian psychoanalysis ("While my brother is a Freudian, I am a Jungian! So there will be no blaming mother today!"), while regular situational japes achieve almost Shakespearian levels of farce.

With her note-perfect British accent and skittish sense of conviction, Gyllenhaal raises Hysteria above the level of naughty farce to something altogether more pleasurable.

The two decade-long bitter collapse of the Charles and Di fairytale might almost have been designed to demonstrate that no level of royal farce could be turned into a republican opportunity.

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