Sentence examples for not farcical from inspiring English sources

The rules are often illogical, if not farcical.

What, as a 65-year-old woman, could I get that would be hot and not farcical?

"It's really comical, if not farcical, it's so ridiculous," says Robert Stears, the chairman of Log Cabin's board.

The seasoned British bass Clive Bayley, a skilled actor who can switch with ease from darkest villain (Bluebeard or Claggart) to big buffoon, handled Osmin judiciously: comical but not farcical, his ginger hair and beard nicely neutering his "terrible Turk" identity.

But not before farcical maneuvers and satirically intended plot contrivances are out of the way.

It's less mawkish than "Grey's Anatomy" but not as farcical as "Desperate Housewives".

On the other hand, the American novelist John Barth showed in The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) that mock historical scholarship preposterous events served up with parodic pomposity could constitute a viable, and not necessarily farcical, approach to the past.

His sham beatific image, questioned by almost no one until it collapsed, is nothing if not the farcical reductio ad absurdum of the decade's flimflams, from the cancerous (the subprime mortgage) to the inane (balloon boy).

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses not some farcical aquatic ceremony!" Listening to the sanity of their insanity again and again was very reassuring when one was dealing with the rigid nature of a boarding school (no training shoes to be worn on a Sunday, when other casual clothes were allowed because – obviously – the world would explode).

One is that proposed goals that exceed one's abilities are not as farcical as proposed duties that exceed one's abilities.

Almost nothing was kept from the original -- not its farcical jewel-theft plot, nor most of its Gershwin score.