Sentences with phrase «slightly farcical»

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.

To avoid a repeat of that slightly farcical episode, the Labour leader got in an accountant to oversee this year's return - only for the professionals to (apparently) leave his party leader's salary off the return.

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.

Not exact matches

It was clear from the pithy dialogue and the panorama of slightly exaggerated farcical supporting characters that Gordon had been weaned on the likes of Coward, Shaw, and Wilde, and the sophisticated Hollywood comedies of the Thirties and Forties.

I think Guadagnino was aiming for farce, but the rest of the movie — which runs a slightly overlong two hours — isn't farcical, so the tonal shift comes from nowhere.

After a slightly slow start during which Buckley introduces his characters, provides them with motive and generally lays the groundwork, Boomsday develops into a mischievously farcical tangled - web of generational warfare and political backstabbing, set against the background of the failing Social Security system and the general collapse of the American economy.