Sentences with phrase «more farcical»

is most certainly one of their more farcical efforts, but that isn't to say that it lacks the charming darkness of their most celebrated work.

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.

These are simple things that a more farcical comedy might play as visual gags, like how each arriving luxury vehicle has to park around Beatriz's dumpy»90s Volkswagen.

Can this party get any more farcical?

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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.

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

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

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...

Commons leader Jack Straw is having another throw of the dice more than a decade after Tony Blair promised to do it, eight years since a «halfway house» was created and four years after voters were presented with the farcical sight of MPs throwing out seven options and leaving the government with no policy at all.

The farcical elements are much too loaded to provide any real fun, and the Stones come off more as sanctimonious, politically correct left - wing prigs than enchanting.

The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare's farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York...

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).

However, the closer the film gets to its end, the more it runs out of ideas and evolves into a farcical load of nonsense.

One of the more difficult lines to straddle when creating a farcical work is balancing treating the characters and their predicament with enough seriousness while still letting the audience in on the fact that you get the underlying silliness of it all.

Recently, both «Jarhead» and «Lord of War» succeeded as black comedies on the subject, focusing on the farcical involvement of the U.S. government much more than the varying degrees of seriousness these issues might present.

Enemies, for example, will be more than happy to attack you from both sides, and they spam their projectile attacks to almost farcical levels at times.

Beneath it all, he has also been tracing the outline of another, more ambitious project as he tries to answer — for himself, his peers, and the world in general — what is the strange, slippery, sometimes contradictory and farcical thing we call «Contemporary Art.»

There, among the broken plates, the angst, and the forced juxtapositions of modernism's last and near farcical art movement was an older painter, a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, quietly composing visual music that, like Claude Debussy's more - than - a-century-old piano portfolio, remains as rich and as readably complex today — perhaps even more so — than when first shared with the public.

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