Sentences with phrase «as farce»

But many party members must be thinking of his observation that everything in history happens twice — the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Marx famously wrote that everything in history happens twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

On the contrary, Killmonger's ascension and death is the event that catalyzes Wakanda's redemption from its greatest failure, and his death ensures that unlike Loki, Thanos, the Red Skull, or any other of Marvel's endless stable of world - conquering despots, the pathos of his tragic end can not be infinitely repeated as farce.

Ghost could easily play as farce, but the director doesn't allow that to happen, keeping comedy, fantasy, and visual effects to a minimum.

I would be excited to see a logical person with logical views such as the acceptance of religion as a farce not portrayed as a villain or a confused teen.

Frank functions best as farce: it is endlessly amusing watching Fassbender wobble about with that vast head on, half - man, half piñata.

The 1993 Whitney Biennial was lauded in many reviews of last year's edition and, in that weird reprise of tragedy as farce, ACT UP's saga is to become a mini-series on US network television, while many Republicans now support gay marriage.

The bottom line is that the Board's behaviour during the Trans Mountain review not only exposed the process as a farce, it exposed the Board as a captured regulator.

Imagine Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment rewritten as a farce or, even better, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent retold as a fairy tale.

If history, as often noted, replays grandeurs as farces, and if T. H. Huxley truly acted as «Darwin's bulldog,» then it is hard to resist thinking of Dennett, in this book, as «Dawkins» lapdog.»

Other Tory Eurosceptics described the PM's renegotiation so far as a farce, saying the new national living wage would act as a huge pull factor for migrants.

Writer / director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama.

It fails as both farce and drama, although the performances are likable enough to guarantee a relatively painless ride.

Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro faced international condemnation on Monday after his re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce that cemented autocracy in the crisis - stricken oil - producing nation.

As the farce becomes increasingly tangled, we begin to wonder when it will start to get funny.

The whole thing is played pretty much as a farce and because of that, there's barely a sense of peril.

Fast, funny, and remarkably filthy, Scorsese's new film is an irresistible display of cinematic technique, Goodfellas retold as farce.

At one point in «Argo,» a smart, jittery thriller about a freakish and little - known chapter of the Iranian hostage crisis, a Hollywood producer says that history starts as farce and ends up as tragedy.

These parts come across almost as farce and parody.

Here at the bottom, however, I had to make a case for Chris Penn's portrayal of a mafioso daddy's boy, an intriguing role that could even be construed as farce.

Can a relationship that began as a farce turn into happily ever after?

Like history, art never really repeats itself, except perhaps as farce — and why not?

He added that the exhibition «defines our times, a kind of gilded age on steroids, when the past gets repackaged as farce.»

Another nominee, Liam Gillick, has set a multicoloured perspex... to stop critics deriding the Turner Prize as a farce, and will once again...

While many see the whole transaction as a farce, in some ways Google got what it wanted out of its brief period of ownership.

The first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.

As the Reverend Wright soap opera rolls across our video screens, first as tragedy and then as farce, it seems as though Barack Obama's campaign IS actually sparking a national conversation about race.

It might even help to prevent the tragic parts of that history being repeated as farce — who knows?

It's probably best described as farce, revolving around the sweetly sincere presence of Beatty, who's a terrible rapper but a cheerfully self - deprecating screen presence.

He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.»

Much of this is played as farce, verbal or physical.

Even if you really want to bend over backward for your customer, if you mix statements about commitment with statements that say what the customer's not allowed to do, the customer is going to see your «commitment» as a farce, corporate jargon, just a way to save face, or all talk and no action.

The bad news is that human society is a never - ending comedy of errors in which our hopes and dreams play out as farce.

Sorry, but we already know about the «teachings» of your Mohammed, and we have long since rejected them as farce.

Between Biafra 1 (1967 - 1970) and the ongoing attempts at Biafra 2, Karl Marx howls: history repeats itself, first as tragedy; then as farce.

He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.»

The current system is set up as a farce, with a lot of phony «community charity» organizations being set up as phony grass - roots organizations when they are actually conduits for corporate and wealthy donors.

The so - called return of Niger Delta militancy, through the so - called Avengers, is history repeating itself as farce.

Marx's observation that history tends to repeat itself «the first time as tragedy, the second as farce» may help to account for the evolution from JFK to Natural Born Killers.

But given Adam's lecture about Karl Marx's idea of history repeating itself, once as tragedy and then as farce, perhaps a second viewing will reap more rewards.

I fear that a Clinton administration will wind up replaying the NCLB soap opera in higher ed, only this time as farce.

I don't think anyone with knowledge of the YWLA's accomplishments would describe it as a farce.

The Beggar's Pantomime Artforum International; July 1, 2007; Gilligan, Melanie; 700 + words MELANIE GILLIGAN ON PERFORMANCE AND ITS APPROPRIATIONS FEW APHORISMS ARE MORE FAMOUS than the redoubtable «History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce» - an observation typically attributed to Karl Marx.

For those who see it as a farce, I ask them, what are you doing with your lives?