Sentence examples for piece of farce from inspiring English sources

An inspired piece of farce unfolds when one of the girls announces that she has to use the bathroom in a stadium that only has facilities for men.

Reza managed the hard strategic task of making her characters' behavior so ugly that every wild piece of farce business — the ripping up a vase of tulips or projectile vomiting over art books — was the author's side-splitting, vindictive revenge on their middle-class smugness.

He had watched him play one of the funniest pieces of farce business he'd ever seen in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus.

A piece of high farce from the commedia dell'arte tradition, it has been transposed from its 1743 Venetian setting to the Brighton of the 1960s in this version, adapted by playwright Richard Bean.

The "Vilnius letter" which it signed in February that year contended that Colin Powell had presented "compelling evidence" to justify military action, overlooking how Powell's presentation to the UN security council was a piece of fabricated farce.

For all the visual elegance of Wilson's production, set in an English country house in the 1960s, it follows Bartlett's lead in treating Marivaux's psychologically intricate study of sex and class as if it were a piece of Feydeauesque farce.

At my son's high school two weeks ago, Life took second billing to a showing of Home Alone, an entertaining piece of broad farce to be sure, but as obvious as a pimple on your chin, and really having little to do with the spirit of Christmas, beyond Macaulay Culkin's ditzy parents going on vacation, leaving him to frustrate and injure some improbably inept burglars.

Tressell relished writing set pieces sometimes of farce, sometimes of great eloquence.

As a piece of city it's a farce".

"What is happening in Syria is a real farce and an unconstitutional piece of theater that is a real violation of the law and the constitution," he said.

His uncle had described Bashar al-Assad's ascent to power as a "real farce and an unconstitutional piece of theater which is a violation of the law and the Constitution".