Sentence examples for light farce from inspiring English sources

Sadly it descended into light farce.

'At times it has a fully souped-up, whacked-out Flann O'Brien-y feel to it, and at other times it's pure light farce.

Since an equestrian theme at Dior was evident from the first piped-in whinny and clap of hooves, the press notes for Friday's fall show made for light farce.

It's a lot of scrutiny for a delicate confection — a remake of a light farce about a constantly inebriated multimillionaire who doesn't want to sober up or grow up; Hobson, his acerbic butler-surrogate parent; and the working-class girl with whom he improbably falls in love.

What starts off as a light farce takes an atypical turn in "All Relative," an honest if not entirely successful attempt at doing something unexpected within the traditional romantic-comedy framework.

He's just in a different groove these days, trying out comedies, tragedies, light farces and romances.

Her next film, characteristically, was a feather-light farce, "The Old Maid," in which she played opposite Philippe Noiret.

He had called it a "trivial comedy for serious people," and on one level "Earnest" is a gossamer-light farce.

Hence the predominance from 1850 to 1890 of social drama on the one hand and light comedy, farce, and operetta on the other.

Theatre Theatre-lovers are either escaping the gloom or confronting it head on in the West End, as grimy drama from the 1930s vies with light escapist farce from the period.

Since then, as if making up for lost time, the range and brilliance of his writing have been phenomenal, encompassing light comedy, farce, work plays, fantasies, plays of ideas, biographical plays, to say nothing of his highly successful translations from Russian, a language he learned during his National Service.