Sentences with phrase «for farcical»

For farcical climate science, Kramer, George, and Jerry can take the elevator up to visit with Gavin Schmidt.

This true crime story aims for farcical lunacy, but garners few laughs and falls short on creating persuasive action sequences.

Also along for the farcical ride are Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline (who won an Oscar for his role).

As such, «Django Unchained» is obviously a companion to «Inglourious Basterds,» in which Mr. Tarantino had the audacity to turn the Nazi war against the Jews into the backdrop for a farcical, ultraviolent caper.

Much as I loathe to give Freeman an additional forum for his farcical views, some are worth quoting if only to emphasis his overall bias and unscientific practices.

Kirsty Williams also criticised the Welsh Labour Government for their farcical mishandling of the issue since Monday.

Not exact matches

Catholic exposé is now a mainstream literary genre, from the farcical (Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You) to the tendentious (The Gospel of Mary Magdalene).

She has both her Masters in Theology and a Masters in Education, and yet she writes: «I am in a very difficult and life - threatening marital situation and it is imperative that my children and I get to safety as soon as possible (before I become a statistic of domestic violence)...» For her the ethical choice is clear whether to live on in a farcical and dangerous relationship so as to serve the demands made on her by society... or to protect herself and her children.

There is a lot of farcical chin - pulling in the book over various «possible candidates for nothingness» and «what «nothing» might actually comprise,» along with an earnest insistence that any «definition» of nothingness must ultimately be «based on empirical evidence» and that ««nothing» is every bit as physical as «something»» — as if «nothingness» were a highly unusual kind of stuff that is more difficult to observe or measure than other things are.

«When you get that situation and then the reason for them not being there is studiously avoided - the whole thing becomes in a sense a little farcical.»

Yet, Christians have to come up with a different explanation for each different phrase (most of which are farcical on their face) to try to show that these failed prophesies didn't actually mean what Jesus clearly meant by them.

It is farcical to hear anthems of victimhood being spouted by corporate swindlers who despoil shareholders of their pensions, or by indicted politicians who cloak themselves in the imagery of martyrs for the Christian faith.

«It is farcical for the government to talk about safe abortions in situations without sterile surgical facilities, safe blood transfusion or emergency back - up.

That will not only highlight how farcical the limit is, but that this supposedly cost - effective restriction on engines and frustrating penalty system is all for nothing.

Winning the lottery I guess, because for he is he earning and what he is delivering he sure is stealing a living... and to come up all teary eyed and talk loyalty about a player who held ye club to ransom for improved package is just farcical, a joke!!!!

The whole situation of one keeper for the league, and one for Europe is farcical though.

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.

After a slightly farcical Monza weekend in which 150 places worth of grid penalties were split among nine drivers, F1 chiefs said that the whole system of punishment for penalising component changes needed overhauling.

Bournemouth took a punt on him because its a win win situ for them cos he is proven in the Championship, i he flops in the EPL and they go down they have a player who can handle the pace of the Championship and who can shot them back up but to insinuate he is the player that could have made the difference for is just farcical.....

This culminated in the farcical deadline day capture of Marouane Fellaini for close to # 30 million.

I like the Gunners here to pass the home team to death as it was only the farcical defensive issues for Liverpool that stopped them winning on that day.

Sheikh Abdullah N Al Thani, who has funded Malaga for the past couple of years, posted several farcical tweets to the social networking site blaming racism and UEFA for targeting the Spanish club from the beginning of the season, clearly irked by the substandard officiating during the game and Malaga's impending ban from European competition.

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.

«With no support from the health community, and no evidence of effectiveness, it would be absurd for this government to continue with such a farcical initiative.

Yet Nigel observes that YouGov «do not even prompt for UKIP when asking voters how they intend to vote», as though this is an obvious mistake, and criticises Populus for their «farcical levels of reweighting and rejigging», as though their methodology had been deliberately designed to do his party down.

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

Phillip Hammond's farcical Spring Budget continues to make the headlines — for all the wrong reasons.

A commons debate over Trident hit a farcical note today as the deputy speaker ruled on whether it was acceptable for an MP to refer to fellow parliamentarians as «robots».

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.

«Increasing the National Minimum Wage is a good thing, but pretending it is a Living Wage is farcical propaganda which undermines the campaign for a real Living Wage.

In other words, it's not as if they are losing pay for this past month of farcical governing.

He begins his remarks by describing how he's put an end to what had become a farcical and damaging spring ritual in Albany: missing the annual April 1 deadline for the state budget.

«What happened was absolutely farcical for everyone concerned.»

Writer - director Ken Kwek means for the proceedings to be farcical, but seldom are they actually funny.

When you see the poster for this film, with a moustachioed Ryan Gosling sitting on his sofa, grinning from ear to ear and accompanied by a sex doll, you be forgiven for entering into this and expecting some form of farcical sex - comedy.

Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012) for its uninspired attempts to take on solemn issues and being farcical instead of seductive.

For all his delicate mannerisms — he addresses strangers as «chaps» and «darlings» — Gustave possesses an underlying strength and dignity that suggest a farcical variation on Don Cheadle's performance as Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda.

That's all you need to know, really, because «The Birdcage» is mostly a comedy of character married to traditional farce, and in true farcical fashion things just get crazier and crazier — starting the moment that Armand decides to play it «straight» for his son's potential in - laws and masquerade as a «couple» with the boy's natural mother (Christine Baranski).

Outside of the farcical comedic elements, Alfred Molina is at his bawdy best here, with Russell Brand providing somewhat consistent support, which seem to capture the best elements of Shakespeare's ability to play to the back of the room, The Tempest merely makes me want to go back and revisit Peter Greenaway's take on the Bard with Prospero's Books, or for that matter, just re-watch Tarsem's The Fall.

Firstly, the refusal of the late guitarist's estate to sanction any of his music for the film hampers it from the off while the constant use of lookalikes to represent the likes of Eric Clapton, members of The Beatles and Rolling Stones makes the recreation of the elite London rock»n' roll scene in 1966/67 look faintly farcical.

From a certain perspective, the movie looks like a farcical romp, the kind that the French are so well known for.

Amid the policy wrangling and a farcical round of «referring up» — this crowd's euphemism for passing the buck — heart - stopping scenes follow the mission's undercover operative (Barkhad Abdi of «Captain Phillips») on the streets of Nairobi.

Each time Gustave undercuts his upscale flowery language and penchant to quote romantic poetry with a vulgar epithet is good for a chuckle at worst, and the design of some of the more farcical sequences (one particularly involving a trek through a mountain monastery with Dafoe's character in hot pursuit) are a delight.

In between, she took a turn for the quirkier in the farcical, high - caliber action comedy «Free Fire» from filmmaker Ben Wheatley («High Rise»).

The farcical trailer below is for Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis» upcoming satirical comedy, THE CAMPAIGN.

The star and the heart of the hip «Youth in Revolt,» a farcical tale of nerd love, Cera exudes a geeky charm and tender vulnerability that's hard to resist — probably because he's far easier to relate to for most of us than we'd like to admit.

for the Sandler bunch, the fact that it was a throwback to the old Hawks / Sturges brand of farcical morality play (a subgenre that has been more or less dead for decades outside of the occasional stab at it by the Coens (Intolerable Cruelty) or I ♥ Huckabees «s director David O Russell).

Against this farcical story, is the backdrop of the lot, which offers many opportunities for Russell and Graham to play out scam after scam in order to make deals.

It's a farcical but low - key setup that, for a while, Shelton and her cast play for all it's worth, creating intimacy and discomfort in equal measure as the characters spend time together, the sisters dredging up old embarrassments as Duplass attempts to figure out where he stands with each.

Ideas are pinched from the Bourne trilogy (2002 - 07) and the Liam Neeson vehicles Taken (2008) and Unknown (2011), and the film's glib disregard for collateral murder runs to farcical extremes in a hospital shoot - out.