Sentences with phrase «farcical way»

Comedic looks at westerns have been done before, from the all - out humour of Mel Brooks» Blazing Saddles to Quentin Tarantino's darkly satirical Django Unchained, efforts A Million Ways to Die in the West tries, in its own farcical way, to emulate.

you feel like screaming), and the farcical way in which a handful of other key characters are played really jars with the weighty subjects discussed and nuanced misery portrayed by a few of the other actors.

Now the current players are in the same position, they can see the farcical way Wenger is destroying the club, how long do you think it will be before Alexis is wanting away from this old fool.

Not exact matches

Your premises are false, and to think that the universe in some way cares about you because it is intelligent is farcical..

In some ways, these questions are absurd: When laws exist to regulate the butchering of tiny human beings and the sale of their remains, compliance issues seem farcical.

Both teams were docked points, and a glorious rivalry was born — one that would rumble through much of the 1990s and 2000s, taking in Martin Keown and Ruud van Nistelrooy, Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira, before reaching a farcical nadir (or zenith, if you're that way inclined) when Cesc Fabregas allegedly lobbed a slice of pizza at Alex Ferguson.

Wenger is way past infuriating, his farcical transfer windows and his inability to beat top coaches, have tarnished his reputation.

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

Whichever way you look at it, it is farcical, it is pure «madness».

The mixed - up, hodge podge way that our transfers have been handled this summer have ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous, both hilarious and farcical, but in all ways, still better than last summer.

Her campaign launch was rendered farcical by Leadsom's decision to drop out of the Tory leadership race at the exact moment she was due to take media questions, leaving her standing awkwardly as the vast majority of assembled journalists scrambled for the door, but it would have been a dud either way.

The independent peer claimed the idea criminals would stop using phones to coordinate plans if they knew evidence could be used against them was «farcical», adding there are ways to prevent the police disclosing all their intelligence sources.

In some ways, the story of Tonya Harding is like another sensational scandal, now being filmed: the tragi - farcical tale of British MP Jeremy Thorpe.

What's interesting is the way that Renoir preserves a strong erotic and romantic thread (the love between Bergman and Ferrer) all the way through the movie's farcical elements.

Along the way there is a contested inheritance, a missing painting, a brief imprisonment, a few separate chases, a secret society and the impending menace of an invading army, giving the film an air at times of a farcical caper.

What's also odd is the way that the film shuffles constantly between registers, between somber and flip, farcical and lugubrious, mundane and cosmic: such shifts of tone that the film feels... you hesitate to say Shakespearean, but at least crazily diverse.

It definitely helps in convincing the audience of the farcical setup, and it goes a long way in making this one romantic comedy (and for that matter, January release) that isn't a complete waste of time.

And the tone of the piece, because it goes from farcical comedy to high drama in a heartbeat and it was hard to adjust the tone to tell the story in a way that the audience could follow it and not be whiplashed back and forth emotionally.

originally backed the company (with a 27 % stake between them), and after some farcical / fraudulent events along the way, the board's now comprised of a senior IIU executive & two other Irish directors.

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.