Sentence examples for sort of farce from inspiring English sources
I am known as a fantasist primarily; "The Next Queen of Heaven" is a sort of farce about millennial anxiety and the possible Second Coming of Christ in 1999.
Mr. Bargetto doesn't seem to have decided whether the play is a burlesque or a psychological study of jealousy, and the result is a sort of farce noire that is neither funny nor suspenseful.
The prospect of not being able to get a drink after 1am in an internationally famous late-night precinct is the sort of farce we might see handled with comic aplomb in a subsequent series of Rake, if we're lucky enough to get one.
In the fastidious world of U.N. procedure, the Security Council parades as even-handed by engaging in this sort of farce.
Like some sort of farce of the crack epidemic, the proprietors of Southeast's main tobacco shop, D.K. Tobacco, offered the first round of bath salts at discount.
(If at this point you're thinking, "My lord, have our elections devolved into this sort of farce?," you're not alone. And the heartbreaking answer is, "yes").. (Update: Paul Ryan comes out against Electoral College tinkering).
"We see the Legislative Ethics Committee as sort of a farce," said Rachel Leon, the executive director of the New York chapter of Common Cause.
It is all familiar from the diarists - Castle, Crossman, Benn, Cecil King - but retold as a sort of sad farce.
The productions I'm talking about are more or less realistic, as opposed to the sort of broad farce or instructional Brechtian fare where you expect people to be caricatures.
He was just there, going on hunger strikes, one of the prisoners whose detention seemed to serve principally as a justification for Guantánamo rather than as a route to justice — including justice for the victims of 9/11, who deserve better than that sort of legal farce.
