Sentences with phrase «making farcical»

Don't forget that despite the bumbling and incompetent Inspector Clouseau making a farcical attempt at an investigation he always ended up with a conviction --(by accident rather than by design, you kneau!)

Great company & good products, it is just that one could never stop making farcical comedies just using their PR as an inspiration...; --RRB-

The opening paragraphs of this letter make a farcical mockery of Caesar and his empty claims to bring peace and justice to all.

Not exact matches

That all those workers were already represented by another union makes the whole matter as farcical as it is undemocratic.

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.

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.

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.

The David de Gea saga was farcical but if no offers had been made by Real Madrid until deadline day then he should have been playing.»

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.....

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

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

She recounts one almost farcical encounter with Brown, in which he asked her to defend him publicly against charges of using women as window dressing, while refusing to give her, his elected deputy leader, the cabinet post that would make her title meaningful.

Though I'm partial to Constantine, who had the greatest challenge in making what could have been farcical real, Blunt and Press are both alluring and tortured.

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.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, «Zack and Miri Make a Porno» is a crude, farcical 5.

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.

Nothing is forced in a film that sees a mysterious hobo turn into a vengeful mercenary in a seamless journey from WALL.E to TAXI DRIVER with all the dark comedy and farcical elements that make The Coen Brothers» films so special.

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.

Though very often the violent moments in «I, Tonya» punctuate scenes that are otherwise farcical and funny, Gillespie, through careful technique, makes sure that the violence never becomes the punch line.

The plot is a rambling, farcical mess, its shortfalls made particularly clear in a rushed finale, but it's secondary to the frequently amusing interplay between the leads, all taking it in turns to be pretty, cruel and / or debauched.

There are moments when generic boundaries blur and the movie threatens to abandon its dramatic aspect and dissolve into romantic comedy territory and, charming as these moments are, at times it makes the audience forget the purpose of the story, and turns slightly farcical.

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.

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.

Reteaming with Frances Ha star / co-writer Greta Gerwig, Mistress America marks Baumbach's most playful film yet, and while its farcical third act goes a tad over-the-top, the winning lead performances by Gerwig and newcomer Lola Kirke, as well as a John Hughes-esque tone and score make it a delight to take in.

Outlining certain decisions made by Michael Gove while leading the Department for Education, a party spokesman outlined the need to dramatically improve the «farcical situation» created during the last government.

However, it's all too easy to fall into the trap of making their representation farcical, and I fear that Kindred Spirits might do just that.

In order to show how farcical the Hockey Team claims of «independence» were, I made guesses last spring about the -LSB-...]

If there had been no «story» — i.e. if Joe had been a tax - paying plumber from Toledo who had tried to buy a $ 250K / annum business but couldn't make the numbers work due to the impending Obama tax changes — a farcical claim on its face if you understand the tax plan — then the embarrassment due to the invasion of his privacy would have been minimal at most.

Take a page from Rich Stevens and make up farcical life events; use a Google Voice number for your phone number; don't use your real hometown or current city.