Sentences with phrase «in farcical»

It all leaves us in a farcical situation in which it does not matter what one's own personal interests are, just as long as they incline one towards the proper sort of political bias.

My allies, friends and good friends in these farcical «climate wars» are a lot more numerous than the bad guys.

In death there is humour; in the farcical there is meaning.

Halfon is trying to clear up the mess left by the odious Gove, last seen in a farcical thumbs up situation with that enemy of education and civilisation Donald Chump.

The next surprise is Matthew McConaughey, who has made a career of playing Him - bo's in farcical rom - coms that seem only to exist so he can be filmed without a shirt.

Jacobs isn't working in a farcical or screwball mode, but his work has a wonderfully deadpan comic lightness all the same.

First things first, Moonlight was the best film of the year; a deserving Best Picture winner at the Oscars (albeit in farcical circumstances) and hopefully a landmark in the direction filmmaking is due to head.

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

However, every now and again they like to dabble in farcical screwball comedies that always meet a mixed response.

The French don't always get the balance right in their farcical romantic comedies, but they usually win us over with goofy charm.

Austrian filmmaker Daniel Hoesl came into recognition via his feature debut Soldate Jeanette (Soldier Jane, 2013) and continues his acerbic pillory of capitalism in the farcical sophomore feature WiNWiN.

Basically, it's just a modern - day story of Noah, done in farcical form, with the protagonist embarrassing himself and his family because he believes he really is commissioned by God to build an ark and save the planet (presumably, by destroying it).

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

The first leg was held at the Camp Nou and though Juventus took the lead in farcical fashion, Pierluigi Casiraghi took advantage of a miserable backpass, a brace from Hristo Stoichkov and a third from Andoni Goikoetxea — which was enough to give Barcelona the win and, crucially, a margin to take to Italy.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Even the Household Survey looks farcical with March printing — 37k after +1.2 M in Jan - Feb..

It is possible that the grotesque and farcical forms of Russian capitalism ultimately prevented this phenomenon from becoming an ideologically dominant conception in my society.

Furthermore, if humans do not have free will and are unable to respond to the call of God, then all the calls of God in Scripture are little more than farcical games in which God taunts humans to do something they can not actually do.

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.»

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.

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

Allison Pearson gives the stressed - out modern family a farcical spin in How Does She Do It?

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

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.

And anything that threatens it — such as the inclination of some team owners to adopt a farcical playoff system in 1981 — threatens 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.

Its not a coincidence that since Wenger has been in charge of EVERYTHING football related at the club we have seen a virtual standstill on transfers and the injury list is longer and more serious AND most inportant of all we have not won anything really significant How long is this farcical situation going to endure???? «oH No the BFG IS INJURED WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO???» «Oh I know... lets get in Kim Kalstrom... or... lets play Sanchez at the back, that'll do» stupid stupid stupid

Yesterday was a debarcle of massive proportions and was the second opening season game we have lost in two seasons, its farcical and the person you have to hold responsible is Arsene Wenger.

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.

Even the farcical red card was vaguely in keeping with the overall theme of latter - day Wengerian inadequacy: these are teams that, in moments of high pressure or extreme disappointment, makes not only bad decisions but desperately, hilariously silly ones.

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.

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.

The Golden Glove is a farcical award and depends on the defense in front of the keeper more than the keepers prowess in goal.

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.....

The problem Wenger has is that he failed to strengthen in the areas we were weak in and now we have a farcical situation of players playing out of position and or getting injured doing so..

Also concur that the England team is a farce because of the lack of grassroots investment, a dyed in the wool manager, and the farcical media circus who treats every young English player like the second coming.

This being the same player which lead the Frence revolt in the summer during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in what was farcical scenes — So excuse me if myself and many others suddenly decide to disregard his views as utter nonsense.

Mandy, the media are in meltdown because they are just as puzzled as most of us at what is a farcical situation.

Manchester United fans probably assume it couldn't get worse than it has in previous years under the farcical Louis Van Gaal and even more laughable Da...

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.

Come the summer, and the farcical playing out of the takeover saga, Warnock was quick to make moves in the transfer market.

It's a very British story; it's farcical, people in power running around and traipsing through tunnels [there's a scene where Brown has to secretly try to meet the other side].

Yesterday's action brings to mind the farcical protest of a few months ago, when two dozen councilmembers blocked traffic on lower Broadway to protest the Eric Garner decision, held a die - in on the steps of City Hall, then went inside to participate in the scheduled Stated Meeting.

The second story, in today's paper, is where things go from hardball to farcical.

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.

«A most farcical cover up has been attempted by this government in the BOST contaminated fuel corruption scandal.

One Conservative MP described the conference at Methodist Central Hall as «the best farcical comedy I have seen in years».