Sentences with phrase «farce by»

This event is a farce by all accounts especially their own.

Would have cut down on the screwball farce by ten minutes or so but otherwise a really good film

This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem.

But there is even a greater potential for turning yoga into a farce by stopping our inquiry, thinking we have comprehended things that are subtle and deep, or by feeding our narcissistic obsession with self - promotion.»

But his plans were turned to farce by events 11,000 miles away in South Wales, where Britain's biggest steelworks is being sold off.

Founder of the Telegram messenger, Pavel Durov, prohibited his lawyers from participating in court hearings «not to legitimize an outspoken farce by their presence.»

Durov reportedly told his lawyers not to show up, so as «not to legitimize an outspoken farce by their presence.»

Rogen and Goldberg have distinguished their comedy from other raunchy R - rated farces by committing to genres wholeheartedly.

Not exact matches

What a farce is all this unctuous adulation of Marx, or of Lenin... They are men like any other men, and they have not attained to their present position as apostles of the communist State by the sheer force of their mild, pacific, self - abnegating temperaments.

First the earth doesn't rotate around the sun, then evolution is a farce and dinosaurs fossils are tricks placed by the devil to tempt people into not believing, and now the big bang is more proof that when the bible said the world was 6000 years old... it meant 18 billion years old.

So «random atheists» who swear by themselves that God is a «sky fairy» and the Bible is a farce have their own bible and believe in Satan, who technically was created by the non existent «sky fairy?»

Religion is a farce used to exploit the teachings of truly spiritual people like Jesus Buddha and Mohammed, by control freaks to lead the weak minded into serving them.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

Religion, however, is a farce created by the human mind.

When transparency turns to farce and honest reporting is buried by self - censorship, what other options does one have?

By accepting the status quo and not by obeying God's word, is a farcBy accepting the status quo and not by obeying God's word, is a farcby obeying God's word, is a farce.

It's actually a farce since Arsenal board are not going to be moved nor impressed by such a Stadium anti Wenger banner displaying.

Last night Wenger, being genetically unable to EVER admit his many mistakes, of which this 12 years farce has been a stonker, had to TRY justifying this 12 year sentence we fans have suffered, by making this «man» (anatomically and he has the beard to prove it) who has been the single most preposterous choice as a captain in FOOTBALL history.

But Wenger has embarked on a longer running farce than is seen and enjoyed by many in the West End.

Absolutely right there He won't go anywhere because he does what the board wants him to He delivers profit and very low risk and sets expectations at virtually zero so that's the fans don't expect too m7ch and he doesn't have to deliver and the board don't need to spend Its a farce and more importantly a blatant con Every single fan who puts even a penny into the club either through season tickets right the way down to buying a mug or a pen or a shirt is being robbed by a board who care NOTHING for sporting glory and even less for the fans who finance the club There SHOULD be mass walkouts on home games and protests at every turn but, there won't be because the demographic of fans now is of a majority who are not true supporters but millennial who only want to say they attend the ground every other week.

Wenger says he was refused funds for Griezmann but I won't forget that 40 million + 1 bid by Wenger, who is to blame for that farce?

# 24 millions for Rabiot who's free next summer... reported by Daily Farce..

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You look at the PSG and BM farce from last year and you think if VAR was implemented, both would have been eliminated, but decsions made by the officials swung it in their favour.

This is epitomised by the farce of renewing Wenger's contract — not once — but, to further spit in the face of the fans — TWICE!

One of his bad games was a very poor showing by the whole team and it was a farce from manager all the way down.

It was all a farce and a ploy by the stupefied media to unsettle the fans and the team....

Some great golf by @DJohnsonPGA all week, strong way to finish overcoming that rules farce.

What they got instead was the farce of watching the two most successful teams in English football fumble their way through until the final whistle, with Liverpool sending cross after cross up to a target man that wasn't there and Van Gaal's possession - hungry plans undone by poor distribution.

It was pleasing that the players kept attacking and didn't get put off by the VAR farce.

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635.

In a twist that turned tragedy into farce, the second run - off ordered by the Constitutional Court, scheduled for October had to be postponed: the glue on thousands of absentee ballots had come unstuck, rendering them invalid.

With leader Henry Bolton left reeling over racist messages by his former girlfriend, senior party figures in Ukip have found a range ways to express their frustration at the latest «intolerable farce» to hit the party.

If it hadn't been for this ridiculous descent into farce, made worse by the appalling quality of feline - based puns on offer from everyone from the Tory party chairman downwards, we would have been left twiddling our thumbs.

The Government's decision to delay the implementation date of the Home Information Pack (HIP) by two months, so that it should apply initially to four bedroom properties and above, is destroying credibility in the HIP which is close to becoming a farce.

Shame he missed Tony awards by 24 hours, would have been shoe - in for Best Actor in a comedy or farce

A former governor of Jigawa State, Mr. Sule Lamido, has faulted the ongoing war against corruption spearheaded by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying it is just a «farce.»

Mr Cameron ought to have put an end to the farce years ago by demanding that his deputy party chairman come clean, rather than insisting that the peer's tax status was a private matter.

French professor Bernard Debré recently released a controversial book claiming that cholesterol medications are a farce and that high cholesterol as a disease is a deception invented by the pharmaceutical industry.

This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones» locker at the box - office, for despite it's all - star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by «Monty Python» - veteran Graham Chapman and former «Fringie» Peter Cook, the darned thing just wasn't funny.

The script, by Baker and Chris Bergoch, is essentially an old - fashioned stage farce — complete with a harridan mother - in - law and a big ending commotion — spread out over several miles of city and transposed into a social stratum that's somewhere below the bottom.

Directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra were weaned on earthy comedies like «Bad Santa,» and every moment of mature insight in Crazy, Stupid, Love is answered by a scene of formulaic farce.

IN SHORT: one big fat farce of a romantic comedy only slightly distracting by a wee bit of artsy fartsyness..

Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who probably should have written it) from a script by Mark Perez, Games Night wants to be an action - comedy / farce.

In 2004, Wayans directed the farce White Chicks, about two black FBI agents, Marcus and Kevin (played respectively by the director's brothers, Marlon and Shawn), who disguise themselves as Caucasian sorority girls to foil a kidnapping plot.

It's nimble enough to never be quite pinned down by its familiar concept before eventually going out in a blaze of farce.

On stage, he recently performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in THREE FARCES, by the theatre company he co-founded, Dog Ate Cake, dedicated to re-interpreting Victorian farce and undiscovered comedy.

The script, written by Trevor De Silva and Kevin Hood, falters when farce gives way to melodrama, but the movie regains momentum with a climax in a ballroom.

A climactic encounter in a swimming pool, underscored by «Total Eclipse of the Heart,» provides arguably the film's most iconic kill, while an exceptional, near - wordless scene between Henderson and the Man in the Mask dances delightfully along the border between dread and farce.

It is, rather, a populist farce that wins its laughs — and, in Dave's big speech to Congress, its lump in the throat — by revealing just how far we've strayed from having any faith in our leaders.