Sentence examples for real farce from inspiring English sources

That idea would have made the game a real farce.

On Friday, Mr. Berlusconi dismissed the protest as "a real farce".

I decided it would be best to lie; it really was just the smallest bit of chicanery, nothing like the real farce our marriage would become.

"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.

In a real farce, the protagonist lies to save his skin; his duplicity multiplies by an arithmetic progression until he's driven almost out of his mind by self-consciousness.

Under the direction of Billy Hopkins, once with the Ensemble Studio Theater and now a Hollywood casting director, the actors can't seem to decide whether to go purely for the clowning or to make an occasional stab at real farce.

Mr Berlusconi said after the court decision that he could "not but respect it", but he also called his trials "real farces" and promised to prove the magistrates were all "liars".

Its main value, however, is that it prepared me for this week's real-life farce: Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle.

Real life and farce blur into one, and we all pretend this is normal.

If that sounds dry, think again: urgent, witty and led by tragicomic human subjects in sparring party reps Paul Mangwana and Douglas Mwonzora, this is real-life political farce of Armando Iannucci proportions.

Last week's contest was a farce, a real disgrace.