Sentences with phrase «almost farcical»

I have to admit, I'm really enjoying the story so far and the almost farcical glitches haven't once stopped me from enjoying the game.

Enemies, for example, will be more than happy to attack you from both sides, and they spam their projectile attacks to almost farcical levels at times.

But it is above all a tale of mystery and detection, of tragic mishaps and mistaken identities, of class, politics, snobbery, crime, and almost farcical accident.

The much - hyped sex scenes are so wholesome as to be almost farcical.

The sex scenes are so wholesome as to be almost farcical.

The pilot was shot but never wholly completed, which sounds a shame as Gerwig certainly was enthusiastic at the time, calling it ««serious but there's an almost farcical element to it.

Of course, Lincoln's egotism is, to put it lightly, ultimately justified, and that beautiful irony imbues the film with an ambiguous, almost farcical power.

She recounts one almost farcical encounter with Brown, in which he asked her to defend him publicly against charges of using women as window dressing, while refusing to give her, his elected deputy leader, the cabinet post that would make her title meaningful.

The legislative scandals have reached almost farcical proportions: a senator from the Bronx, Pedro Espada Jr., stands accused — perhaps not coincidentally by Attorney General Cuomo — of spending $ 20,000 in state and federal grant money on takeout sushi that was delivered to his house in Westchester County.

The John Terry Affair has taken on almost farcical dimensions.

Montpellier Herault Sport Club beat Stade Malherbe Caen 1 - 0 at home in a match that was played in almost farcical weather conditions at the Stade de la Mosson.

As a Protestant, the Catholic Church seemed almost farcical to me.

And then there was an almost farcical round robin of screwups that included the hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO in September, 2010 only to fire him a year later, largely due to the Autonomy deal which degenerated into charges and countercharges of fraud between HP and former Autonomy execs.

Not exact matches

Take Friday, when I rostered Davis against the Sixers and saw him put up an almost - farcical 14 - point, eight - rebound line in the blowout.

I did not buy the romance, and the plot points were so farcical this film was almost unwatchable.

Powered by a vigorous, image - shedding lead turn from James McAvoy as a coked - up Edinburgh detective on the fast track to either promotion or self - implosion, this descent into Scotch - marinated madness begins as ugly comedy, segues almost imperceptibly into farcical tragedy, and inevitably — perhaps intentionally — loses control in the process.

The episode, The Becoming, was on pretty shaky ground legally and the farcical subplot almost detracted from an arc involving a pair of gay soldiers — one of whom had a terminal brain tumor and had decided to try an experimental procedure devised by Drs. Derek «McDreamy» Shepard [Patrick Dempsey] and Meredith Grey [Ellen Pompeo].

It has a farcical setup (it's a wonder that it wasn't based on a French comedy, especially given that it almost went out under the title Bastards) that takes the boys from Terry Bradshaw to Ving Rhames to J.K. Simmons and beyond as they search for their real father.

There is something almost comic and farcical to the way in which King and the Smith School now seem to be hoist by their own nuclear petard.