Sentence examples for sinister farce from inspiring English sources
Espinasse's conduct on the day of the massacre was unobjectionable, but he had been promoted through Vichy and thought the Resistance attack on the Germans a "sinister farce".
"This Is Not a Film," as they called their "effort" (that's the word used in the credits), is actually a playful pass at filmmaking; it is also a valiant and dangerous act of protest against the sinister farce of Panahi's punishment.
If A Kiss Before Dying highlighted Levin's ability to put construction skills to a sinister purpose, this play showed a relish of farce.
A CIRCUS, a farce, a tragedy, or a thriller with an increasingly sinister plot: depending where you stand, Polish politics can look like any or all of these.
Made in 1927, as the silent era was drawing to a close, the film is a highly kinetic farce that contains some residual surrealist elements, including a fantasy sequence with sinister men in silk hats, a bed that scoots around by itself, and a general delight in that favorite surrealist trope, furniture being flung out of windows.
Colin Farrell is seductive and sinister as the vampire next door, Anton Yelchin is his credibly panicky teenage nemesis, and David Tennant shows up just in time to add a necessary fillip of farce when things are about to turn bloody.
