Sentences with phrase «in such farces»

roles in such farces as The Errand Boy (1961), The Nutty Professor (1963) and Who's Got the Action?.

«It is unfortunate that great cinema should drown in such farce and controversy totally irrelevant to the film itself,» Nielsen said.

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But it's a farce on a tour that's at such a high level, where spots in the fields are valuable and cherished, and it's supposed to be the best path to the bigs.

Then again, I was raised Jewish, and when you're never under the guise that Santa Claus is real, you do kind of grow up wondering how other kids could be such willing participants in this longstanding holiday farce.

In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 163In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 163in an American Family By John Sedgwick HarperCollins, 400 pages, $ 25.95 Dig deeply into any family history and you're bound to unearth a mosaic of tragedies and farces, but few families have given rise to as many prominent figures as the Sedgwick clan has, few have created such archival treasures, and few can trace their American lineage back to 1635.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

The following decade witnessed Williams guesting in series programs including CSI, Joan of Arcadia, and NYPD Blue, appearing in recurring roles on shows such as Malcolm in the Middle, and tackling a small supporting part in the farce Undercover Brother (2002).

It really bothered me that someone could take such an excellent script as Swingers, and, when given the opportunity, make it into a choppy, unintelligeble, ridiculous farce of the true pain that Mikey felt in the script.

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

After all, notwithstanding farces such as «No Sex Please, We're British,» the British people have survived and even thrived for many centuries without ever talking about sex, except in their diaries or, in a veiled way, in their poetry.

This is such a farce and if Ford doesn't commit to building a production version of this car for the long term and pulls out of endurance racing this will go down in history as the biggest joke in the history of endurance racing.

Such woefully outdated farce, however, is what Detroit gladly indulges in.

Its common sense that prevails in moments such as this, and common sense tells you that the claim of Global Climate Change is a farce.