Sentence examples for out of farce from inspiring English sources

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Oscar Wilde was right to insist that his "Importance of Being Earnest" be performed with the speed of a pistol shot; slowness lets the air out of farce, especially one driven by words gone wild.

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It couldn't be clearer now that, from the shirtless FBI agent to the "embedded" biographer and the "other other woman," the "fall" of David Petraeus is playing out as farce of the first order.

The movie ascends from pleasant comedy into true farce with the arrival of two out-of-towners.

The plot is full of mistaken identities, darting in and out of doors, all following the classic dictates of farce, with flair.

The rest of the afternoon with Dashkevich played out as farce.

It was like a strange theatre was playing out in Athens, one exploring the themes of human frustration, the nature of farce, and how bad tear gas tastes.

Arsène Wenger lamented what he describes as a sense of "farce" that is enveloping Arsenal after they were knocked out of the FA Cup by Watford.

Sex and hypocrisy were staples of farce long before America became a nation, and they never go out of style.

We said usual level of farce.

Then, a moment of farce.

Its failings are the stuff of farce.

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