Sentences with phrase «into farce»

Yesterday's media committee report descended into farce when Labour and Conservative members attacked each other in front of the assembled ranks of the press.

What was a disorderly midfield setup was turned into farce when Carroll and Ayew replaced Noble and Fernandes leaving a massive gap between defence and the attack minded players.

His time at Spurs descended into farce when he screwed a shot horribly wide in a match against Burnley in 2015 and following two completely underwhelming seasons, he was sold to Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande and has impressed so much that Barcelona bought him for # 36m.

A disagreement on a psychiatric ward degenerates into farce as Mark and Jeremy begin making increasingly silly claims about each other's behaviour in a desperate bid to get them sectioned.

The plot moves further into farce as Aaron learns an unsavoury secret about his father and desperately tries to keep it from getting out.

A politician's soiree quickly descends into farce in Sally Potter's star - laden satire, a sharply observed study of love and politics

Calvinism is a nihilistic belief system which turns reality into the farce of a cruel Puppet Master.

Mayor de Blasio's already dubious bid to review «all symbols of hate» on city property descended into farce Tuesday as the commission he named to do the dirty work opted...

He thus succeeds in turning Niebuhr's irony into farce.

We all know you want to stay, be a man about it and just announce your intentions this is turning into a farce!!!

After all, F1s partial team radio ban quickly turned into a farce last year, so what would happen if it followed DTMs lead and banned it completely?

The problem is not simply the rhetoric, or the speed with which it collapsed into farce and rubble after the election a few months later.

In a twist that turned tragedy into farce, the second run - off ordered by the Constitutional Court, scheduled for October had to be postponed: the glue on thousands of absentee ballots had come unstuck, rendering them invalid.

After Hammond's Budget this spring descended into farce over a U-turn on increasing National Insurance payments, a Treasury official told the Telegraph:

Westminster sinks into farce again - unforgivable when discussing #WMD - speaker now deciding if calling colleagues «robot» is allowable: -LRB-

If it hadn't been for this ridiculous descent into farce, made worse by the appalling quality of feline - based puns on offer from everyone from the Tory party chairman downwards, we would have been left twiddling our thumbs.

The government's child abuse inquiry was in danger of turning into a farce today, after its chair had to step down less than a week after being announced.

The peer's demolition of the Tory Brexit boss came just hours after Ken Clarke said Mr Gove was turning the leadership contest into a farce.

Indeed, the Constitution Unit has said that because of the «inadequate nature of Commons scrutiny, any reform that curtails the role of the House of Lords in relation to delegated legislation risks turning an already deeply flawed process into a farce».

But there is even a greater potential for turning yoga into a farce by stopping our inquiry, thinking we have comprehended things that are subtle and deep, or by feeding our narcissistic obsession with self - promotion.»

Sad to report, it's an awkward affair, stringing out its tearful scenes of mourning, and going wildly astray with its lurches into farce.

Afraid to pitch into farce, yet only half - hearted in its spy mechanics, All the Queen's Men is finally just one long drag.

Affleck and screenwriter Chris Terrio could have easily turned this far - fetched tale into a farce.

The movie didn't have far to go before it was pushed over the edge into farce, but the filmmakers seem determined to go for thrills instead (there are none), and their inept direction and editing leave every scene hopelessly incoherent.

Sturges digs deep into farce, but on the way finds something deeply thoughtful and moving.

And even before the movie kicks into farce mode, little things like the way Tony (Matthew Shear) reacts with angry startlement when his girlfriend Nicolette (Jasmine Cephas Jones) touches him while driving still crack me up after several viewings.

Turning history into farce probably wasn't what Antonio J. Mendez, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, was after when he was tapped to help free six State Department employees stranded in Tehran.

The little subtleties of Brooke and Tracy's relationship reflect that and keep the film grounded as the story freefalls into farce.

But they owe it to their citizens — and the rest of the country — not to turn accountability into a farce, however colorful.

A shame that a lot of relatively smart people have bought into the farce.

The author and climate change campaigner, Naomi Klein, accused French authorities of «a gross abuse of power that risks turning the summit into a farce».

The court was trying to be efficient and prevent a total breakdown of the system, but cutting corners like this made a mockery of the officer's oath and turned court proceedings into a farce.»

As a result, the peer review system, at best a least of evils in most of science, has degenerated into a farce in climate science.

Mayor de Blasio's already dubious bid to review «all symbols of hate» on city property descended into farce Tuesday as the commission he named to do the dirty work opted to hold its first meeting in secret.

This led to an undignified bidding war among delegations — my country is more vulnerable than yours — that descended into farce when landlocked countries vigorously protested that they too would suffer from sea level rise.

Yesterday's annual AGM for Arsenal shareholders to address the Board descended into farce, as Stan Kroenke lived up to his nickname of Silent Stan by not saying one word to the supporters in the whole two hours of the meeting.

Because, if the mother is not helped, the alleged choice whether to breastfeed turns into a farce.

But thanks to Woodward and Van Gaal, the football side has descended into farce, and if this continues, the damage to the brand will be disastrous.

This not only makes politics unnecessarily poisonous but puts off ordinary people when they see politics descending into farce.

The debate on the European Arrest Warrant descended into farce this afternoon before it had even begun.

She said: «The delivery problems we are seeing at the Department for Work and Pensions now risk descending into farce.

There is no credible science that can, without descending into farce, establish equivalences between different job roles in different settings.

Although the plot waivers on descending into farce, Ira Sachs manages to keep it from doing so suggesting he knew exactly what he wanted to achieve and how to achieve it.

The film, centred on a gathering of friends to celebrate the promotion of Janet (Scott Thomas) to the role of shadow health secretary, quickly descends into farce, owing to the characters» deceitful behaviour towards each other.

«I think what it says is that the waiver strategy started off as a dubious spectacle and it has now descended into farce,» said Rick Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

The attempted English revolution descended into farce, but the authorities were alerted to the possibility of something similar occurring in Ireland.