Sentences with phrase «with farcical»

A self - described artist of the «absurdist cultural critique,» Solien invites you in with brightly colored compositions filled with farcical figures and fanciful objects.

Beginning with a farcical, but potentially deadly, duel between John Temple and William Whately that took place in Hyde Park on the morning of December 11, 1873, the story of Franklin's last years takes shape.

A great 2 - act comedy with farcical elements for upper KS2 / lower KS3 pupils.

[Mainstream Chick's take: The Death of Stalin is one quirky, wickedly funny flick that seems frighteningly current with its farcical depiction of events — and «leaders» — from the 1950s.

Commencing with a farcical, slow - motion drunken spree to the grocery store in which the ladies tear open pre-packaged snacks and dig right in whilst chugging Champagne, guzzling Bailey's, and damaging store property, the three momketeers» revolution is underway.

The film holds this satire equally with its farcical violence, giving us villains that ultimately are laughing along with us.

Of course, as with any feature with farcical leanings, Doillon's effort won't appeal to all, particularly his indulgent — and overly lengthy — meanderings between the multiple couples in crisis.

(since she IS a cyborg, but she says that's ok) in other words, it's a pessismistic statement of non-action wrapping itself up with farcical rejoice just to cover some un-speakable pain.

, while director Mike Barker tries his best to imbue the film with a farcical sort of vibe (it kind of works).

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 Tanakh's book of Job tries to address that with a farcical story where Job is fine with a new batch of family and lots of money.

Not exact matches

Even the Household Survey looks farcical with March printing — 37k after +1.2 M in Jan - Feb..

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.

Yet, Christians have to come up with a different explanation for each different phrase (most of which are farcical on their face) to try to show that these failed prophesies didn't actually mean what Jesus clearly meant by them.

We got, again, a farcical decision but we knew that as well before, so we have to deal with that.

the whole thing is just farcical and time after time after time Wenger looks foolish and totally out of synch with his back room staff.....

Do not come with the excuse Leicester did not spend and WON it because then this is FARCICAL.

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.

Yet another farcical performance, and it wasn't a surprise either when you consider the problems with the starting line - up.

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.

However, a late collapse would be symbolically disastrous, because along with Manchester City, Spurs have a certain ingrained farcical quality.

I actually was just thinking about how I didn't have an issue with THAT much of what Paxson said, other than some of the stuff about the farcical nature about the end of the season and some of the self - inflicted «disjointed» stuff, but even that he admitted that he hated doing it.

Bayern suffered a somewhat farcical shootout defeat to their Bundesliga rivals, with both Phillip Lahm and Xavi Alonso sending their efforts over the bar after slipping on the wet turf.

With other European giants likely to join said «Super League», set to become the spoilt brat of a love - child of the money - centred farcical organisations which control world football, a devastating period of neglect shall be inflicted upon the clubs left behind.

We knew UEFA were looking at our 2012 - 13 accounts, and that our sponsorship agreement during this time with a company owned by Yours Truly was farcical and worth nothing, but we went full steam ahead with reckless spending.

OccupyGhana ® has noted that its last Press Release on the above - matter has been met with silence from government officials, and two farcical denials of there even being an agreement: one by Woyome and another by Mr. Selby, the Chief Director of the Ministry of Transport.

«With no support from the health community, and no evidence of effectiveness, it would be absurd for this government to continue with such a farcical initiatWith no support from the health community, and no evidence of effectiveness, it would be absurd for this government to continue with such a farcical initiatwith such a farcical initiative.

you feel like screaming), and the farcical way in which a handful of other key characters are played really jars with the weighty subjects discussed and nuanced misery portrayed by a few of the other actors.

The head - to - head debate between Cameron and Miliband still looks improbable as empty chairing Cameron should he not show up would leave the electorate with the potential of Ed Miliband having a farcical Clint Eastwood moment.

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.

Growing up in Country Clubville, Connecticut I was used to seeing men wear pants with crabs on them (farcical to anyone else or just me?)

There's a little bit of farcical spoof humor in place as well, with Django's strut now accompanied by contemporary soundtrack rhymes from Rick Ross, with the irreverent sass - talk of Samuel L. Jackson's postmodern Sambo as Candie's reliable assistant Stephen, clouding the audience's sympathies.

Even the most hoary of running gags — the breaking of the maestro's glasses — revels in its banality, just as the famous lines about Jew - Nazis uttered by Godard at his most contemptible are with deftness shown to be the ramblings of a farcical character.

Her protesting and silly announcement she would «tell all» was farcical since the «tough chick» could not handle the truth when presented with it.

There's a wonderfully sly, farcical verve to these early moments, but it dissipates when the script, with its strains of E.T. and The Fly, moves into high sci - fi gear.

Of course, Lincoln's egotism is, to put it lightly, ultimately justified, and that beautiful irony imbues the film with an ambiguous, almost farcical power.

There's a funny, farcical scene with an early version of the Klan (the joke is they can't see out of their hoods), but Django doesn't spike to full Tarantino fever until it gets inside the big house of Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), a wily plantation owner.

The series is now crescendoing to a farcical monstrosity of international intrigue, complete with globe - trotting cops and bad guys.

The dark humor, while farcical in nature, has turns of getting too dark (remember this is a regime that maintained power with an absolute iron fist).

Basically, it's just a modern - day story of Noah, done in farcical form, with the protagonist embarrassing himself and his family because he believes he really is commissioned by God to build an ark and save the planet (presumably, by destroying it).

When you see the poster for this film, with a moustachioed Ryan Gosling sitting on his sofa, grinning from ear to ear and accompanied by a sex doll, you be forgiven for entering into this and expecting some form of farcical sex - comedy.

Unlike Kaufman's Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)-- which is directly concerned with the possibility of art in the cinema and ultimately lapses into a farcical parody of the Hollywood style — Eternal Sunshine presents its viewer with a classical boy - meets - girl, boy - loses - girl, boy - gets - girl romance structure.

That's all you need to know, really, because «The Birdcage» is mostly a comedy of character married to traditional farce, and in true farcical fashion things just get crazier and crazier — starting the moment that Armand decides to play it «straight» for his son's potential in - laws and masquerade as a «couple» with the boy's natural mother (Christine Baranski).

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.

The French don't always get the balance right in their farcical romantic comedies, but they usually win us over with goofy charm.

But I soon began to realise it was one of the funniest films I had seen, with Jake and Elwood's increasingly farcical run - ins with the law and over the top car chases.

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.

Dead Poets Society screenwriter Tom Schulman's work is simply but effectively constructed, the farcical events forcing the pair of well - matched leads into comically and diametrically opposed character arcs, with Murray slowly regaining his dignity and Dreyfuss steadily going mad over the course of a fleeting hour and forty minutes.

The last episode of 2010 clocks in with a triple review, as Kurt and Andrew look at David O. Russell's earnest and farcical boxing drama, The Fighter, as well as John Cameron Mitchell's look at how a couple (in this case, Aaron Eckhart and Nicole Kidman) grieve the loss of their young son in Rabbit Hole.

Were it not written by Nanjiani himself (along with wife Emily V. Gordon) and promoted by the two as very faithful to their real story, it would be far too difficult to characterize it as anything but farcical fiction.