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farce

Farce is a style of humor that shows a very enlarged and unlikely-to-happen situation.

farce

a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations (= stuff) fill with a stuffing while cooking Have you stuffed the turkey yet? (= forcemeat) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

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Simple sentences

This is a farce.

Movie subtitles

They'll mistake this for a farce planned by the Britannians!
It's a silly, stupid farce, and it's not funny.
I've never seen such a farce in a respectable house.
Are you going to stop this silly farce?
Listen. Why don't you stop this farce and take us in!
I'm not trying to obstruct justice, but just as this young man says, this is a farce.
Your Honor, I object to this farce.
This is a farce to ask us to vote in the face of the kind of intimidation and pressure that has been ex erted in the past few weeks.
I was sick of this tiresome daily farce.
It was quite a farce.
This farce has lasted long enough.
One's debut is a miserable farce!
But it's still a damned farce!
You're not going to start last night's farce all over again, are you?
Just an asinine farce they dreamed up.
Today it is a farce.
No, I don't care to prolong this farce.
Corneille, this farce must stop at once!
Anyhow, it's less than a week now and she'll be free. It's a farce.
Now what? Are you going to stop this silly farce?
The you will prove to me, that this whole thing is an outrageous farce and that a person can not become a child again, just by putting a pupil's cap on their head.
No, a slightly ribald farce.
It's like a farce.
Why this farce?
After that two-men-in-a-bedroom farce. I sort of imagined that when we left, he left.
Corneille, put an end to this farce!
Are you trying to make a farce out of my wedding?
You believe in that farce?
It's circus, it's drama, it's opera. It's farce, operetta, revue. All in one show!
You make me laugh with that farce!
So mine is a farce?
But I love you, dear, as I have a legal right to do. - Do you want this marriage to be a farce. a travesty on conjugal bliss?
Elections are a farce.
The farce has been going on long enough.

News and current affairs

But that putsch, thankfully, ended as a farce.
Karl Marx wrote that history always repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
One might fear that Camp David proves to be the tragedy and Annapolis the farce.
The dream of improving the world disguised a farce that affected not only a single life, as in Cervantes' story, and affected not only the misleading army of buffoons believed to be missionaries.
For most journalists and political pundits in Romania, this self-proclaimed Damascene conversion looks like just another political farce from someone with unrivaled histrionic gifts.
Nowadays, legal proceedings against the world's most wicked leaders have become farce.
Nick Clegg, Britain's deputy prime minister and the leader of Cameron's coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats, should end this farce today.
The Cold War was a tragedy; a repeat can only be a farce because it is unnecessary.
Meanwhile, the state lurches from fiscal tragedy to fiscal farce.
With debt relief for poor countries shaping up as a focal issue at the July G-8 summit in Scotland, it is a shame that so few people appreciate what a farce such measures could turn out to be.
Karl Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself as farce.
If the first scandal was a tragedy, the second was more like a farce.
The EU's efforts to develop a coherent approach to the crisis have bordered on farce.
While the Arab League seemed to act decisively last November when it suspended Syria's membership, the military-observer mission that it sent to Syria was a farce.
History is said to repeat itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
The sad truth is that, in Russia, history does indeed repeat itself, but, in a twist on Karl Marx's dictum, as tragedy and farce at once.
But, while the rejection of humanitarian military intervention had an element of tragedy in that case, Germany's behavior today is pure farce.
Luckily, the other half of that saying also appears to be true, for Moscow's most recent bout of anti-Semitism is a case of history repeating itself, not as tragedy, but as farce.

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