She gives her character's heroic fantasies about the scoundrel Earnest an honest dignity without becoming farcical. |
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His employees decide that while the cat is away the mice will play and their search for adventure quickly develops into farcical madness. |
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The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it. |
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Threats to sue the Football League and create a new competition with no offsides or draws were just farcical. |
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For a real slam-bang ending, express doubt as to which election is more obviously a farcical fiction designed to promote corporate interests. |
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It sounds absurd but the entire episode has been so completely farcical that one can hardly believe that it took place at all. |
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I believe, however, that there is a production possible which avoids any farcical elements and allows the play to retain its tragedic balance. |
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It is alarming that surgeries are bogged down by farcical officialism and red tape, instead of leaving medical staff to use their own discretion. |
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It's farcical situation, more so now that so many clubs are living hand to mouth. |
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Like so many loosely bound thrillers, the denouement doesn't add up and the final shoot-out is farcical. |
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She is their foil, the object of their farcical delusions and snobbish assumptions. |
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You'd think there would have been more farcical complications in our lives, but we haven't had any of those mistaken-identity sweetheart mix-ups. |
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We've just witnessed a ground breaking and probably farcical Maori by-election. |
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But his childish repetition of gritty details makes A Million Little Pieces not only tedious, but downright farcical in spots. |
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The play reveals in farcical fashion, the secret lives of electrical appliances, making full use of the radiophonic possibilities. |
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It's an extraordinary system in America, quite different from the farcical situation here. |
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William thinks it's farcical and plays it up but amongst friends incognitos are simply unfunny bores. |
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No, thankfully, or the situation could have ended up in an ever increasingly farcical court case. |
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The attempt then to portray Al Gore, who rejected the subterfuge, as the one who was funking national debates was farcical. |
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Don't take the spotlight off this farcical situation until the offenders are arrested. |
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No matter how outlandish and farcical some of the events become, everything remains firmly grounded in a sense of reality. |
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Over the past five years, each have contrived to reduce the events to farcical levels, at least once. |
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The whole idea of the proposed redevelopment of the centre is farcical, unnecessary and at odds with what many people really want. |
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What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all. |
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Lots of farcical situations arise, which it would be unsporting to divulge. |
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You are doing an admirable job of reporting this farcical event and I trust you will continue. |
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What is surprising is that this farcical situation was ever allowed to develop in the first place. |
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This turn of events was later described by a judge as a farcical about-face on the part of the Council. |
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This dramatised story of his life matched its subject by being the most farcical depiction of an artist I think I've ever seen. |
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This is farcical administration of the immigration law and it demeans the very concept of national interest. |
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This is the source of the play's farcical energy, the spark that ignites its passion and its black comedy. |
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When the first play comes to its hilarious, farcical close the audience is left gasping for air. |
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They're so enormous, so stratospheric, so downright farcical that all I can offer in response is a kind of hollow laugh. |
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In some areas closures are already beginning to affect the quality of treatment, producing some farcical situations. |
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We've got a farcical situation where we've got MPs pleading for immunity from cuts for their electorates. |
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The subsequent debacle of all three is farcical as well as despicable. |
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Without order, our democracy becomes a farcical game, filled with political skullduggery. |
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The former, with its coarse, farcical counterplot, was considered one of the cleverest comedies of its time. |
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She talked glowingly about the parliamentary secretary doing his cross-Canada farcical, whimsical tour. |
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The contradicting accounts of what happened to the plane would be farcical if not for the 239 people who are missing. |
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It is farcical that the country that harbours ill will towards Somalia and its people seeks to use Somalis to fight its war against Eritrea. |
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When will the Liberal government end this farcical, face saving exercise and cancel the billion dollar bureaucratic blunderbuss? |
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Leading figures in the democracy movement were arrested and, after farcical trials, 75 of them were sentenced to long prison terms. |
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At the moment they are going through a consultation on the proposed closures, which is frankly farcical. |
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About eighty democracy activists have been arrested and sentenced, following farcical trials, to very long prison sentences. |
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I have also invited you here in order to respond to the farcical performance of the President of the United States yesterday in the White House. |
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One is that the Kyoto agreement should do nothing that will undermine our economic growth, which starts things off with a farcical suggestion. |
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The vengeance-seeking, obstinate businessman and peace preacher are soon forced into a farcical confrontation. |
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An even bigger mistake is the dialogue, which slipperily shuttles between the farcical and the portentous, inducing gales of laughter in the most inappropriate places. |
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As is, they now look ominously instead like that monopoly's prelude and farcical first act. |
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The oversized, exuberant, and farcical plot of The Teleportation Device is more entertaining than any summary can convey. |
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But you have to have been a witness to that history to appreciate the farcical beat at the heart of it all. |
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It is simply a matter of preposterous and farcical behavior by a hegemon. |
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At this point the story takes a bit of a farcical turn of events. |
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In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text. |
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Having established this ultimate, farcical commoditization of heroism, Robbins turns his attention to Carlos. |
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The cumbersome though finely painted charabanc of the late James style is pulled swaying along by a frisky pony of a plot farcical and romantic. |
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Its attempts at censorship were, despite Cervantes, farcical. All that, and more, may reasonably be pleaded in extenuation and Mr Kamen does so convincingly. |
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The gods, of course, were a quite farcical invention, though necessary for the as it were marmoreal exaltation of the civic virtues. |
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It was an exhibition of precisely the sort of farcical sanctimoniousness that Moore later decried as a sign that the left was becoming insular to the point of self-parody. |
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The stewards did look into the farcical start, but their findings were unilluminating in the extreme. |
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They are among the 38 political prisoners found guilty on 11 June of this year in a farcical trial in which they were not able to present their defences. |
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It is absolutely farcical for the Commission to say that setting a tax base will not eventually set a tax rate, because that is already what the larger Member States are saying. |
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I cannot help feeling some disgust, however, at the vultures circling around this carcass and at this farcical judicial system which is still designed for the victors and never questions their actions. |
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If we kept that in mind when legislating, we would come up with rules that are a great deal simpler, and the Members of this Parliament would be spared from the farcical exercise of voting on hundreds of amendments. |
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But could we please stop this farcical pretence that it has got anything to do with the criteria of dealing with the justice system or them fulfilling the acquis communautaire. |
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There was quite a farcical situation where the workers were to be reinstated in a vacant building, and therefore eventually could not be reinstated. |
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We can debate the matter tomorrow, but not with your farcical behaviour. |
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Therefore, the argument now, reaching the point of being farcical from the government's side, is it will not support this because it also wants opposition members to disclose with whom they meet. |
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As the first nation in the world to recognize Ukraine after it split from the former Soviet Union, Canada made the right decision today to refuse to lend legitimacy to the farcical election outcome. |
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The whole thing sloshes along, alternately farcical and magniloquent, with threads left dangling everywhere, sometimes for hundreds of pages, ultimately forever. |
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I think this is farcical and quite unacceptable. |
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I urge you to state here today that it is utterly false and farcical. |
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Providing helpful, strategic or tactical criticism is one thing, but all too often the farcical cries of question period are now proffered as legitimate advice on war and conflict. |
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Byelections can be low-down, dirty, chaotic and farcical. |
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This play has outlived almost all other English-language comedies from the early 18th to the late 19th century by virtue of its broadly farcical horseplay and vivid, humorous characterizations. |
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Benalisme, as Tunisians sometimes dubbed his style of rule, brought with it increasingly farcical elections, an absurdly adulatory press and dread of the pervasive, petty and vindictive security services. |
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The auratic Christ and the wonderstruck disciples turned farcical. |
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In the 18th century, the stories began to develop a slightly more farcical vein. |
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Factionalising and splits led to the farcical sight of two or in some cases three far-right candidates contesting the same seat, fatally splitting the vote. |
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The In Bruges team of director Martin McDonagh and star Colin Farrell team up again in this farcical crime caper about a conmen who dognap a crazy gangster's mutt. |
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Let's put all the cock-ups behind us such as the Trojan Horse, the illegal bus lanes fiasco and last, but not least, the farcical and non-sensical green waste imposition. |
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