Sentence examples for some farce from inspiring English sources

Ms. Ebersole, who also stars as the daughter, tries to wring some farce out of this scenario, having characters periodically rush out of the room and return looking different — say, drenched in water.

Men don't need to partake in some farce involving gowns and wigs and high-pitched voices to attack women – they do it every day.

This movie is not just some gimcrack farce.

To some extent, farce has migrated from the theatre into situation comedies on television.

If you didn't know the novel at all, the seemingly reckless dash of the narrative, the dislocation of characters and ideas, will have left you feeling marooned in some grand farce.

Serious equal-ops points are made without slowing the pace of some jolly farce: first they think they've poisoned him; later he's chained up and force-fed TV soap operas.

I can't shake the sense that he's pulling strings from the shadows, forcing the actors to explain his intentions and embroiling us all in some situationist farce.

"Before I could scream 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' his office door would be slammed shut," she writes about working for Harvey Weinstein at Miramax, "and he would be playfully chasing me around his desk as though we were in some Feydeau farce".

Plotwise, this is a virtual "Tootsie," and Mr. Niccol gets some lightweight farce out of Taransky's straining to keep the world away from his nonexistent prodigy, a task that becomes all the more difficult once Simone becomes the biggest star in the world.

Here, Friedman takes square aim at the premises that guide most of his thinking, and constructs some robust farce.

European dishes like steak and pasta arrived at their table; they made exaggeratedly quizzical faces, and then began to slurp and paw at the food like in some Roman farce.