Sentences with phrase «farcical episode»

Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, said KSA was «another farcical episode in a string of failings» for the government's free school programme.

To avoid a repeat of that slightly farcical episode, the Labour leader got in an accountant to oversee this year's return - only for the professionals to (apparently) leave his party leader's salary off the return.

Not exact matches

Later, Giuliani clarified that his purpose was to put to rest persistent allegations that Cohen's payment could be construed as a campaign finance violation, and Trump knew that Giuliani would be torpedoing the president's farcical narrative about this entire episode on national television.

The last episode of 2010 clocks in with a triple review, as Kurt and Andrew look at David O. Russell's earnest and farcical boxing drama, The Fighter, as well as John Cameron Mitchell's look at how a couple (in this case, Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman) grieve the loss of their young son in Rabbit Hole.

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].