Sentences with phrase «such farces»

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

Organized religion is such a farce and exists only to free people from thought and responsibility, instead of being a typical ignorant American, take a look at what Jesus really said and you might find that it was pretty good, respect your fellow man and such, that message seems lost on Christians these days (and all days).

The no of wrong offside decisions, cards, prima dona's at the pitch is such a farce.

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

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.

Which is why the EPA's efforts to regulate the air you breath out is such a farce and must be stopped.

Not exact matches

What a dishonest farce that crap is — he NEVER SAID ANY SUCH THING!

It's actually a farce since Arsenal board are not going to be moved nor impressed by such a Stadium anti Wenger banner displaying.

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 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).

This period had its high points — such as the well - regarded big - screen TV spin - off Porridge (1979), starring Ronnie Barker as a prison inmate — and its lows, such as the abysmal 1985 farce Water, a pay - television staple during the late -»80s starring Michael Caine and Valerie Perrine that satirizes Britain's invasions of Grenada and the Falklands.

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.

Whereas a hit like Wedding Crashers struck such a balance somewhat awkwardly — structured so that the first half was for boys - boy rowdiness, and the second half for girly - girl romance — Apatow's latest tackles both exigencies nearly simultaneously, a considerable feat aided by the writer - director's adept ability to wring laughs not from outrageous farce and slapstick but, instead, from real - world situations and dilemmas.

It's goofy, phony, and downright irritating, and I'm actually at a loss as to how such an overdone farce like this has managed to find such a hardcore audience who love it.

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.

And the movie isn't much better than such low bar - setting farces.

Considering the almost compulsively static aesthetic of Allen's recent output, it's hard to believe that the director could ever have made such a frenetic slapstick farce as Take the Money and Run.

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.

For such a ribald farce, when there are laughs, they are mild, and hardly the knee - slappers you'd expect from a game cast of comedic actors.

Thank goodness a sharp observer like Potter exists to pull off such a tricky farce with such finely finessed brevity.

Some critics disagreed, celebrating it for being a delicious farce, a religious and / or ecological allegory, or merely for the fact that Aronofsky convinced a studio to finance such a bizarre button - pusher.

If you're just now joining this on - going story (a tale from the farce genre), you may be wondering why such the big deal over Apple making Amazon remove from its Kindle App (iOS version) a link to the web - based Amazon.com Kindle store.

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

Whether you see this as a blessing, curse, or sideshow farce, fame has become such a meta - subject and an American obsession that just the act of someone famous making a painting is thought to add kicky secret layers to the artist's image.

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.