Sentence examples for not farce from inspiring English sources

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What begins as tragedy returns as tourism if not farce.

But Mr. Martin's play is not farce; it's more like American burlesque.

What he puts on the screen here is faster than life and more volatile than common realism, but it's definitely not farce.

Since founding his company in 1977, Mr. Eifman has created many ribald scenes and humorous or cartoonish characters; but psychodrama, not farce, has been his métier.

Her friend argued that "there's a tradition of slapstick in the US, but not farce" and he went on to say that as a result, American actors were never quite able to buy into the "crazy circumstances" of a traditional farce in the same way that British ones do.

But the most recent episode of "America's Dumbest Criminals" ended in tragedy, not farce, exposing grotesque failures in the American criminal justice system.

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But this is not a farce.

Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff hacked into fashion's pretentiousness, but their humor was not all farce.

As truthiness repeats itself, so may history, and not as farce.

And yet PAULINE AT THE BEACH (1983) is not a farce.

What now? Zimmerman deserves to have a thoroughly fair trial — one that is not a farce.

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