101 examples of farcical in sentences

The piece is farcical and improbable, but has some good things, and is admirably acted.'

Laughable, comical, comic, farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous, funny, droll.

But for that moment of clear vision and high resolve he might be to-day even as these who had won such clear title to his contempt, who stultified themselves with vain imaginings and the everlasting concoction of schemes whose sheer intrinsic puerility foredoomed them to farcical failure.

Anglo-Russian entente of 1907; but the Persian people had too much, far too much, confidence in the sacredness of treaty stipulations and the solemnly pledged words of the great Christian nations of the world to imagine that their own whole national existence and liberty could be jeopardized overnight, and on a pretext so shallow and farcical as to excite world-wide ridicule.

But she did not hear it; this new aspect of the situation had seemed to her so farcical that her laughter threatened to become hysterical.

" That is, indeed, the inevitable symbol of dramatic tension: we see a sword of Damocles (even though it be only a farcical blade of painted lathe) impending over someone's head: and when once we are confident that it will fall at the fated moment, we do not mind having our attention momentarily diverted to other matters.

To-morrow they would descend upon her with their fussy attentions, their medical solemnities, their farcical search for somethingfor anything except the truth they wouldn't let her tellto account for her nervous breakdown.

Mr. MAX PEMBERTON said that, although he had given up revue writing in favour of transforming farcical plays, he felt that he might make an appeal to the authors of revue (who often exceeded the audience in number) to join in this very laudable campaign.

So, rather than become farcical, the Coos ceased.

Miss VERA GORDON'S Rosie is a good performance, and Miss JULIA BRUNS, the vampire, seemed to me to make with considerable skill and subtlety a real character (within the limits allowed by the farcical nature of the scheme) out of what might easily have been uninvitingly crude.

Even the motor-car, whose appearance promised a hint, the merest far-off possibility, of farcical developments, shared in the general lethargy and refused to move from its ditch.

SLIM SULLIVAN'S RETURN, a farcical comedy in three scenes, by Leroy Clemens.

R68147, 11Oct50, Margery Youngman Carter (A) & William McFee (A) THE BLACKMAILERS, a farcical melodrama in three acts by Barry Conners.

R67370, 8Sep50, Miriam Vagta (C) CROSSED WIRES, a farcical comedy in three acts by Richard Augustus Purdy.

R67370, 8Sep50, Miriam Vagta (C) CROSSED WIRES, a farcical comedy in three acts by Richard Augustus Purdy.

The noblest undertakings were mixed with the most farcical amusements; the most laudable institutions, for the benefit and improvement of his subjects, were followed by shaving their beards and docking their skirts;kind-hearted, benevolent, and humane, he set no value on human life.

(A FARCICAL TRAGEDY, IN TWO SCENESNOT LICENSED FOR REPRESENTATION.)

Throughout the play we find comic interludes by Scrub, a page or attendant in search of his master, who also has some farcical business with the Lustful Shepherd, who after being disappointed of Cloe disguises himself as a satyr, apparently deeming that rôle suited to his taste.

It is a rustic element in the interludes, satiric and farcical, supplied by a country clown, some shepherds, and 'a shee Swaine,' Amarillis.

Some day, perhaps, when the present narrow phase of aesthetics has ceased to monopolize the name, the glory of a farcical art may become fashionable.

When the British in Boston sent out a bundle of the king's speech, "farcical enough, we gave great joy to them, (the red coats I mean), without knowing or intending it; for on that day, the day which gave being to the new army, (but before the proclamation came to hand,) we had hoisted the union flag in compliment to the United Colonies.

And so it is not by your virtuous inclinations that you have hitherto been excluded from this festive scene?" "No, sir," said Crayshaw with farcical meekness of voice and air, "quite the contrary.

" "Yes," said Crayshaw, folding his hands with farcical mock meekness, "

I stayed on, as every one knows, when the Lyceum as a personal enterprise of Henry's was no morewhen the farcical Lyceum Syndicate took over the theater.

He felt that it was monstrous that the modern man, who was pre-eminently capable of realising the strangest and most contradictory beauties, who could feel at once the fiery aureole of the ascetic, and the colossal calm of the Hellenic god, should himself, by a farcical bathos, be buried in a black coat, and hidden under a chimney-pot hat.

101 examples of  farcical  in sentences