Sentence examples for though farcical from inspiring English sources

Once an obscure cable program with a cult following, "The Daily Show" is emerging from the prolonged presidential campaign as an almost legitimate though farcical news outlet for young people.

I laughed with Verbinski's film more than I did while watching The Hippopotamus (Network, 15), which also takes a winding, eccentric tour through a bizarre rural retreat – though this farcical adaptation of Stephen Fry's novel works so hard for its wackiness that I found it more exhausting than anything else.

Max outlines the serious consequences and Sy the farcical ones, though, in fact, what actually happens as they spin out their competing stories in alternating acts is similar in incident, if not in tone.

Mr. Clooney, playing the scion of a Hawaiian land-owning family beset by trouble both tragic and farcical (though it is not always easy to tell which is which), undergoes an effective deglamorization.

Add in a little artistic license, and I was able to craft a credible likeness of Irvin for the farcical, though respectful, creation myth of Eustace Tilley which appears on this week's four covers.

Farcical though it may seem, the "Twitter joke trial" - the double-edged name applied by social media to the case - shows that law, in Britain and elsewhere, can lag behind the development of Internet discourse, which is consistently advancing and mutating.

Though there is one farcical plot development that is poorly woven into the emotional fabric of the story, and though some of the asides about health care feel shoehorned into the narrative, the author's understanding of her people is so intimate, so unsentimental that it lofts the novel over such bumpy passages, insinuating these characters permanently into the reader's imagination.

What preceded the meeting with the Jazz at Staples Center, though, was perhaps even more farcical.

However, even though the government went to farcical lengths to prevent this, the law also contains a small clause that allows the public-sector company a "right of recourse," which it can use to reclaim some of this money from the supplier if the accident was caused by a design defect.

Though its tone wavers, telenovela-style, between farcical and sentimental, and it's at least 15 minutes too long, the film is easy enough to sit through.

Crystal Palace were left in a farcical limbo last night with Steve Bruce, though remaining technically as manager, excluded from first-team affairs and champing at the bit to leave Selhurst Park.