"The court is farcical and the case is farcical," said one, who asked not to be named.
|
|
The scene was "farcical," said Emma, looking back on it.
|
|
Gogol himself could hardly have devised a more farcical plot.
|
|
The fight itself would prove to be even more farcical.
|
|
Suddenly, Wright's proclamations of Colon's hitting prowess again seemed farcical.
|
|
The farcical scene may have been a catalyst for change.
|
|
This move would be fascistic if it weren't so farcical.
|
|
The continual sense of control failing is farcical, and endearing.
|
|
A minor mishap gave the day a final farcical twist.
|
|
The idea of having meat to eat here seemed farcical now.
|
|
The debacle was all the more astounding for its farcical conclusion.
|
|
Below is a paragraph from Trump's farcical Tuesday night press conference.
|
|
Nixon was a flawed figure, while Trump is a farcical one.
|
|
Beijing has called the ruling farcical and refuses to recognize it.
|
|
Taboos that would be farcical if the consequences weren't so dire.
|
|
A farcical show trial plodded on for the next five years.
|
|
For Berdych, that made Thursday's 10-minute break seem rather farcical.
|
|
The 1964 film replays this racial panic in a farcical key.
|
|
What's more, the kind of farcical screwball comedy that makes Mrs.
|
|
The work has terminal whimsy, like some farcical, bored, old burlesque act.
|
|
"Parasite" is more noir than science fiction, farcical until it turns melodramatic.
|
|
But Hewitt's claim that Trump will walk to reelection is equally farcical.
|
|
The truly farcical situation in Oregon appears to have changed all that.
|
|
It's just embodying a character and taking it to a farcical level.
|
|
That's something to hold onto as the farcical election of 2016 unfolds.
|
|
Bong's films are always hilarious and farcical, almost slapstick and then violent.
|
|
It's not the fight they want to have because it's so farcical.
|
|
The charges against the arrested writers and journalists are farcical at times.
|
|
Labour's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer said the government was in a "farcical situation".
|
|
" Human Rights Watch Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson called Wednesday's certifications "farcical.
|
|
Days later they arrested an investigative reporter, Ahmet Sik, on farcical terrorism charges.
|
|
But the notion that it will be passed in March is borderline farcical.
|
|
It's more farcical than Cheers, with more a more erudite sense of humor.
|
|
By refusing to register Mr Navalny, it risks making the election look farcical.
|
|
The latest elections came and went, for me, unacknowledged, too farcical to consider.
|
|
I don't want to create this farcical version of myself as a distraction.
|
|
Breakingviews A farcical energy deal has given rise to a new takeover tactic.
|
|
Then every left-of-center interest group piled on with more farcical opposition.
|
|
"The most farcical lineup the majors ever had known," said writer Al Stump.
|
|
Later, he made a farcical attempt to join a resistance unit in Brittany.
|
|
Rewind "A Very Curious Girl" is a very farcical account of sexual revenge.
|
|
Obama's animosity to the Second Amendment spurred some of his most farcical whoppers.
|
|
"It's a farcical and completely ridiculous situation," said Ernesto Hernandez Busto, 42, an editor.
|
|
Weiner plays like a raucous political farce (and it just keeps getting more farcical).
|
|
This is farcical and arguably trivialises the very real struggles that transgender individuals face.
|
|
England have gone, and done so in the most perfect, farcical circumstances of all.
|
|
Mr Ma's hand-grenade (or stink-bomb) of a book is bitter and farcical.
|
|
Yet even by its standards it has made a farcical start to the year.
|
|
It's farcical and asinine; a long-winded pantomime of curtseying and passing silk slips.
|
|
Over the course of my rehearsals, Brad became farcical, misandric in portrayal and therapeutic.
|
|
Balenciaga's FW18 collection took layering to a farcical level: hoodies, windbreakers, anoraks, parkas, etc.
|
|
That scenario is as believable as the official turnout figures for the farcical "election".
|
|
Even if the bureaucrats give grudging approval, privacy campaigners find the Privacy Shield farcical.
|
|
All are essentially fables — alternately heartbreaking and farcical — set mainly among the downtrodden peasantry.
|
|
Fanta's defense lawyers have walked out on the court's farcical proceedings, calling them illegal.
|
|
The most farcical aspect of this system was it favored underwhelming white male candidates.
|
|
Doing their gentle dance routines or farcical double-door bits, they are perfect together.
|
|
"There's nothing farcical about rape," she said, speaking shortly before rehearsals began in May.
|
|
The deception of the Kittredges and their society pals always had its farcical elements.
|
|
This week, on September 30th, their rocky relationship came to a farcical turning point.
|
|
But the idea that the smart home equals thoughtful domestic bliss for families seems farcical.
|
|
The attempt to disrupt the impeachment inquiry—reportedly endorsed by Trump himself—seems almost farcical.
|
|
Yet it would seem farcical to do so if Britain were on its way out.
|
|
The disparity between the two countries, especially given GEN's report, make Myanmar's statistics look farcical.
|
|
But still — this reads like a line from science fiction book about a farcical dystopia.
|
|
The current production of "Toast," which toured Britain this year, definitely has its farcical side.
|
|
That year, Sony released the farcical movie "The Interview," which poked fun at North Korea.
|
|
It's time to repeal this farcical giveaway and redirect the revenues to more worthy projects.
|
|
Deo's skill lies in not stretching the humour or the farcical aspects of the film.
|
|
Anthology Film Archives' latest series explores fictional, factual, and farcical portrayals of monkeys in movies.
|
|
The game eventually resumed in farcical fashion with Philippines fielding three players against Australia's five.
|
|
Miami was referenced in both the Cabello-Mendes hit and the farcical Russian TV clip.
|
|
To imagine that this court can be a threat to America, the superpower, is farcical.
|
|
The whole thing is a farcical misunderstanding of five characters who see five different things.
|
|
These farcical corruption investigations are designed to scapegoat lower ranking members and have grown exponentially.
|
|
In the farcical second play, "Fugue in a Nursery," he observes and experiments with coupledom.
|
|
During its glory years, New Girl was equal parts sincere and farcical in the best way.
|
|
He slings lurid accusations of affairs, cartoonishly illustrated on stage in farcical scenes of pornographic sex.
|
|
The funniest scene is a farcical holdup by robbers wearing plastic grocery bags over their heads.
|
|
The most polite words being used in Westminster to describe the reshuffle are "farcical" and "shambolic".
|
|
Telling kids that "if you take drugs you're going to die" is just a farcical message.
|
|
A farcical controversy that is in fact part of a large farce that everything is fine.
|
|
Until then, the fictional, factual, and farcical portrayals on display at Anthology will more than suffice.
|
|
It depicts a farcical and dramatic end to a relationship that features a whole lotta blood.
|
|
But art — even flippant, sweet-natured, intentionally farcical art — can stand to be better than this.
|
|
That they could come up with something more serious than the farcical recent Green Real Deal?
|
|
But "Jojo Rabbit" is just as farcical—and just as funny—as Mr Waititi's other films.
|
|
His hubris would be tragic if his overestimation of his own abilities were not so farcical.
|
|
But it is almost farcical to pretend that PSAPs are being used only by bird-watchers.
|
|
It has been dispiriting, and also farcical — the butterfingers dismantling of a great New York institution.
|
|
Her farcical wedding of outrage to gluttony was a political act whose helpless desperation mirrored mine.
|
|
"It's getting a bit farcical, the number of initiatives they're pushing down people's throats," he said.
|
|
It is true that her current incarnation is farcical, and will most likely be short-lived.
|
|
Bringing back Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as presenters nicely added closure to that farcical finale.
|
|
The color images are quintessential Parr: where hues, gestures and expressions collide to highlight the farcical.
|
|
His first challenge was farcical—wear ties—and the others had been a little preening and collegiate.
|
|
Dick dies under a farcical set of circumstances, so there's a lot of opportunity to have fun.
|
|
An election last year proved farcical: the ruling party won all 125 seats in the National Assembly.
|
|
There is a farcical logic to everything, and seeing how everything connects is what keeps you playing.
|
|
They reported on the content of the bout rather than the farcical nature of its very existence.
|
|
Citizen's arrests that make the news these days tend to be farcical, heroic, or just plain weird.
|
|
The plot is farcical and far-fetched—or at least, it seemed that way he wrote it.
|
|
To any objective observer, GOP hysterics about the "process" of Trump's impending impeachment come off as farcical.
|
|
With every of-the-moment beauty technique that pops up, funny variations and farcical recreations inevitably follow.
|
|
First, the idea that the media is to blame for Trump's current morass over Russia is farcical.
|
|
With each section of the novel, Binet ups the improbability factor, and his narrative grows increasingly farcical.
|
|
The fight to disappear it turned farcical when, in 2008, Cleveland's ballpark got a new corporate name.
|
|
The opposition leader Kamal Hossain denounced the "farcical election" on Sunday night as the results streamed in.
|
|
His show hung on to a loyal base through 14 seasons, including the increasingly farcical celebrity version.
|
|
This Lindsey Graham stopped a bloodthirsty, farcical attack from the Left on our nation's most honored institutions.
|
|
This time the terror Ungerer evokes is not fantastical or farcical — it's all in the real world.
|
|
Just when you think a scene will be horrifying, it veers into farcical comedy — and the reverse.
|
|
It's a story that's so serious for so long, and it culminates in this objectively farcical episode.
|
|
Seeing Obama attacked for such farcical reasons pushed many on the left to start challenging the flag pin.
|
|
Are the most patently farcical and protectionist restrictions nigh unchallengeable, or are there, in fact, judicially enforceable limits?
|
|
She said in a recent interview with the Guardian that "the whole of democracy looks fragile and farcical".
|
|
It is both "low"—farcical, vulgar, reliant on physical gags—and "high", dealing in sophistication and witty repartee.
|
|
The notion that competition, consumer welfare, and growth are likely to increase in such an environment is farcical.
|
|
To SE Cupp, it brought to mind Festivus, the farcical "airing of grievances" holiday made famous in Seinfeld.
|
|
The judge told me my life sentence was "farcical" and "cruel and unusual," but his hands were tied.
|
|
Despite the seriousness of the situation, Stone's communications with Credico began to take on an almost farcical tone.
|
|
In the past, "talking" dogs haven't been given their due in entertainment, often being used for farcical forays.
|
|
Of all the descriptions of Mr. Trump we've heard this election season, this may be the most farcical.
|
|
But "Marriage Story" is also funny, lightening the darkness with glittering one-liners and several farcical set-pieces.
|
|
But the squabbling and endless recriminations in Westminster are just a particularly farcical version of a global phenomenon.
|
|
At the center of "Perfect Skill" is a male duet, performed naked, which is more farcical than fanciful.
|
|
In The Square, the crises that afflict Christian are more obviously farcical, and intersect with his professional life.
|
|
It didn't take long for Comedy Central's Review to go from farcical comedy to full-on existential crisis.
|
|
It felt like a farcical joke that the sun was shining brighter yesterday than it had in weeks.
|
|
Consequently, neorealist photographs were produced as operatic retellings of the immediate past — dramatic, heroic, hubristic, and sometimes even farcical.
|
|
They're still just as capable as they had been; From this vantage point, Gilead's restrictions seem so, so farcical.
|
|
A coin toss sounds farcical and absurd, but at least it's a tiebreaker triggered by genuinely close vote totals.
|
|
Anyone who has ever run a live game knows this is a farcical situation that puts games at risk.
|
|
Elliot Crown, 47, came to Mr. Trump's speech wearing army fatigues, a clown nose and a farcical oversized mustache.
|
|
After a farcical dalliance with national service and a subsequent stint in prison, they embarked on a new path.
|
|
This section of "Museo" is a bouncy, farcical road trip, but it also deepens the film's slyly patriotic subtext.
|
|
In "The Death of Stalin," a farcical look at Soviet history, he plays Stalin's punching bag of a son.
|
|
How can a satire possibly be more farcical or bizarre or outrageous than the president's own words and actions?
|
|
But under the current administration, certain topics that have long been integral to American public diplomacy feel particularly farcical.
|
|
The accidental recording reached farcical proportions when Kesh announced that he was opening Geraghty's LinkedIn page on his computer.
|
|
His exploits included fighting in wars, rescuing hostages, searching for a lost city and staging a farcical aborted coup.
|
|
Her facile tendency to view historical figures through the lens of her subject matter is, at times, almost farcical.
|
|
But it was reminiscent of the kind of parody regularly featured by the farcical online news outlet, The Onion.
|
|
The episodes that preceded the finale embodied the same spirit—a farcical and surrealist satire bounded by Southern, downtempo cool.
|
|
It was a farcical satire of the Soviet Union, and wasn't published until 1966—even then, it was heavily censored.
|
|
The comedy, which suggests a Middle Eastern answer to "Curb Your Enthusiasm," is a lacerating farcical satire of religious extremism.
|
|
After a series of farcical events, Chicago artist Jeremih will no longer be the opener on PARTYNEXTDOOR's Summer's Over Tour.
|
|
"Every single day Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif's reference to team B becomes more farcical and his credibility diminishing," Gargash said.
|
|
The farcical attempt to keep sports clean is a failure at every level, so it's time to abandon the charade.
|
|
Sex is as intimate as it is farcical, as is the experience of finding an outfit that suits you perfectly.
|
|
In the funniest farcical moment (not very), the three are stuck in a revolving door at the hospital's entrance. Yawn.
|
|
The investigation was built on such a farcical premise that it needs to be placed in quotation marks when explained.
|
|
But the fast tempo emphasized the farcical aspect of a scene that Mozart also injects with a touch of melancholy.
|
|
When the UFC announced its own ranking system most in the MMA sphere thought it to be a farcical exercise.
|
|
This gives the surreal scenario a tragic majesty that works in affecting counterpoint to its farcical, Mittel-European sitcom side.
|
|
"Every single day Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif's reference to team B becomes more farcical and his credibility diminishing," Gargash tweeted.
|
|
The challenge, called "The Bitchelorette," was a parody of the farcical dynamics that play out on "The Bachelor" each season.
|
|
Hieronymus Bosch crowded his paintings with farcical-looking creatures, and William Hogarth amused the viewer with his crude cautionary tales.
|
|
If President Trump's fate were being decided by a secret ballot, would we have the farcical event going on today?
|
|
Many observers believe he's colluding with the government and is willingly being used to make a farcical election seem real.
|
|
It is hard not to wish that the heavy farcical high jinks that surround him were on his high level.
|
|
The farcical "Fifty Shades of Grey" depended on the ritualized stupidity of soft-core porn, crossed with romance-fiction fantasy.
|
|
As Lysakowski says, "The farcical nature of the manipulated structures creates a surreal world of absurdity in an otherwise mundane landscape."
|
|
The question is raised by a farcical U-turn by the British government over a budget measure announced a week previously.
|
|
But even then, the earnest believability of Wilson and Farmiga as the Warrens shifts The Conjuring 2 from farcical to poignant.
|
|
Kill List is a really fun blend of thriller, horror, and mystery that swings unpredictably between tense and — occasionally — borderline-farcical.
|
|
For municipal broadband, he said it was farcical to have a Democratic-led FCC overturn state laws enacted by Democratic legislatures.
|
|
He managed to complete a third feature, "Martyrs of Love," which consisted of three love stories with farcical overtones, in 1967.
|
|
The farcical disasters he sets in motion — like getting Jean-René sloppy-drunk at a party honoring Karl Lagerfeld — feel tired.
|
|
Almost uniquely, the administration's e-cigarette tariffs raise the farcical specter of virtue taxes, penalizing people for making healthier life choices.
|
|
With little plot or dialogue, this farcical novel about inertia sustains momentum by the wit of its quirky Rube Goldberg prose.
|
|
It looks bleak now, and also a bit farcical, because that is how things always seem to look for the Mets.
|
|
After a list of celebrities — John Legend, Cher, Snoop Dogg, Cardi B and DJ Khaled — gave it their farcical bests, Mrs.
|
|
A Kid 'n Play-inspired chase ensues through the school's hallways, complete with farcical falls and the sounds of sneakers squeaking.
|
|
He showed anew the crispness of his enunciation — in this case stretched to farcical parody — and his talent for broad comedy.
|
|
Western politicians have called for Savchenko's release while her lawyers have branded the legal process in Russia a farcical show trial.
|
|
On September 8th an Egyptian court upheld 75 death sentences in a farcical mass trial of more than 700 mostly Islamist defendants.
|
|
Even when the focus shifts away from the primary father-daughter relationship, Ade's astute gift of observation and farcical humour is unrelenting.
|
|
It has prompted a wave of counter-propaganda, half-truths and rumor in Ukraine that range from the jingoistic to the farcical.
|
|
Mr Tribe acknowledges near the end of his article that "this almost farcical scenario would [not] be likely to unfold in reality".
|
|
So the government persuaded the courts to ban the party before conducting a farcical election in which the CPP won every seat.
|
|
It is farcical for a society which claims to be free to take away such basic freedom in the name of assimilation.
|
|
This torturous, often farcical, process can take several years and can cost more than $4,000, well beyond the reach of most people.
|
|
What appears at first glance to be a laudable exercise in democratic governance is a farcical, unfair and irrelevant ballot-box performance.
|
|
Occasionally when history repeats itself it is farcical, but usually when a society repeats the same historic mistake it is still tragic.
|
|
The vice-presidential debate was farcical, because the Democrat was determined to perform as he had been instructed rather than answer questions.
|
|
" Peter Zeidenberg, who spent 17 years as a DOJ prosecutor, said the idea that Comey had violated the Privacy Act was "farcical.
|
|
But like all effective satire, there's a glint of truth and accumulation of mundane details that make the farcical scenario feel plausible.
|
|
The move against the U.S.-born British citizen was labeled farcical, and prompted immediate calls for the U.S. to overturn the decision.
|
|
"Fairview," very loosely, is about a family dinner that gets dysfunctional after one act, farcical after two and like Armageddon after three.
|
|
Laughter is inherently violent as well as potentially soothing, and the most farcical aspects of Jojo's world are also the most terrifying.
|
|
Op-Ed Contributor SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — A year after the farcical impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil has again plunged into a crisis.
|
|
The story "ascends to an impressively high level of farcical anarchy," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
|
|
We breathe in the bad air in an era in which we are daily subjected to nonexistent, farcical, or inane environmental policy.
|
|
The story "ascends to an impressively high level of farcical anarchy," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
|
|
It was a farcical move that involved ordering pizza and some Republicans bringing their cellphones into a room where such devices are banned.
|
|
A chapter devoted to the successful escape attempts which have occurred over the years reads like a breathless thriller with farcical, Coenesque overtones.
|
|
China has angrily rejected the verdict by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and the initial case as illegal and farcical.
|
|
Many Brexiteers blame the alternately frightening and farcical stories on dastardly "Remoaner" officials, working to undermine the case for leaving without a deal.
|
|
China angrily rejected the verdict last week by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, describing the case as illegal and farcical.
|
|
Some readers might feel that too much levity surrounds some disturbing matters — a farcical deathbed scene, the humiliations of colostomy bags and incontinence.
|
|
He has raised tensions with China and engaged in the farcical and dangerous delusions of defanging Kim Jong Un of his nuclear weapons.
|
|
Mr. White put together "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," the Python troupe's farcical rendition of Arthurian legend, on a very low budget.
|
|
Ms. Delpy's salty riffs on indulgent parenting and midlife insecurities are draped over wearisome farcical situations that fall short of her past work.
|
|
The very idea of unified national political action toward a single goal seems farcical, and unified action on a global scale mere whimsy.
|
|
Both writers wield a subtle touch when needed, which makes the more farcical moments of the whole enterprise land with greater comedic punch.
|
|
Trump has inserted herself into many of the White House's technology efforts, including the recent farcical visit to an Apple facility in Texas.
|
|
" The hearing had a farcical character, especially at the beginning, because Lewandowski refused to answer many questions — at the White House's behest. "Mr.
|
|
Indeed, while the consistency of their Champions League exits might seem farcical, the tragedy of the situation is how utterly inevitable they feel.
|
|
He is magnetic, switching effortlessly from straight-faced to farcical and adding a well-timed "yeah" or sideways look to provoke yet more laughter.
|
|
Farcical without being funny, "How I Won the War" is emphatically irreverent in mocking Winston Churchill along with the pretensions of the British Empire.
|
|
Here the mood is more farcical, the score a skillful homage to Gilbert and Sullivan, and the well-heeled family is called the D'Ysquiths.
|
|
In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.
|
|
The idea that they could come up with a list of hundreds of thousands of people without making a single mistake is just farcical.
|
|
The mainstream opposition Democratic Unity coalition said Falcon and others participating in the May 20 vote were simply helping Maduro legitimize a farcical process.
|
|
I'll just be living in a marginally less abusive and farcical society, one in which I have the opportunity to meet my basic needs.
|
|
Fake news is making big news lately following a shooting at a DC restaurant that fell victim to a widely-circulated farcical news story.
|
|
The farcical effort to push through a Zombie Repeal without even knowing its impact is driven by the urge to break the piggy bank.
|
|
That murky dreaminess amplifies the bleak center of the show's farcical plot, in which two men each disguise themselves to seduce the other's girlfriend.
|
|
And while the Daniels story is somewhat farcical, there's evidence that serious issues are in play in the nexus of Trump's secrets and corruption.
|
|
While campaigning, Mr. Trudeau made assurances about fixing the farcical environmental review process for prospective energy projects that was cultivated by Mr. Harper's Conservatives.
|
|
"They (judges) have completely negated all the farcical stands raised by the army to deny women equal opportunities," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
|
|
But there's something farcical about him as well, not least when he loses his ability to fly and tries desperately to recapture the magic.
|
|
The court's decision to proceed with this farcical, politically motivated case has deeply troubling and far-reaching implications for independent journalism in the country.
|
|
But what ensues instead is a scathingly farcical scene: Sinclair comforts Claudio, and then, while quoting biblical references, reveals himself to be even more corrupt.
|
|
" Newsom also noted: "It's no coincidence that the Administration's threat comes 24 hours after California led 16 states in challenging the President's farcical 'national emergency.
|
|
The humor here swerves between royal pomp and farcical absurdity, with the exhibition's emphasis geared slightly more to the latter — at least in my eyes.
|
|
In Le Roi Est Mort we see both power's sinister intoxication, its appeal, but also its farcical mendacity (which it tries to conceal behind pomp).
|
|
The farcical move is apparently a response to U.S. sanctions placed on dozens of Iranian entities earlier this year following Iran's unlawful ballistic missile tests.
|
|
If the monologues feel epic and overdetermined, it is because they are meant to highlight the farcical, barbaric aspects of the entire Wall Street apparatus.
|
|
And that makes the FBI's involvement in the tape-record-then-dump-Trump conversations overtly political — even if Rosenstein believed the whole idea was farcical.
|
|
For ten hours Thursday, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok gave riveting, compelling and, at times, farcical testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.
|
|
As the ghostwriter contends with underworld escapades, farcical publishing-industry posturing, and his gnomic subject, he becomes obsessed with the boundary between fiction and reality.
|
|
Such farcical moments are all too familiar for South Asians because soap opera "dramas," as they are known, are a big part of our culture.
|
|
Though Congress has steadily drifted away from making bills into law through the traditional procedures, the deterioration of legislating standards reached farcical heights this summer.
|
|
Last week, 14 international and Egyptian rights organizations urged Mr. Sisi's American and European allies to publicly denounce the "farcical elections," but that seems unlikely.
|
|
"I decided to forgo a potentially farcical and expensive jury trial in federal court over five jokes that don't even make sense anymore," O'Brien wrote.
|
|
These days, what passes for policymaking in America manages to be simultaneously farcical and sinister, and the evil-clown aspects extend into the oddest places.
|
|
Long before The Onion began printing farcical news articles, long before the Yes Men enacted their first culture-jamming political pranks, there was Alan Abel.
|
|
Even the farcical dénouement of the Ellsberg case upholds the Pozenian principle that the good leak is the leak that perpetuates the practice of leaking.
|
|
UNESCO's farcical resolution negates history and aims to undo not only the many centuries of Jewish presence in Jerusalem, but those of Christianity as well.
|
|
In Hosoe's photographs, however, Hijikata is more of an impish intruder in a northern Japanese farming village, whose presence is at once disruptive and farcical.
|
|
Trump must remember: Marx was wrong on many things, but he was spot on when it came to the cyclical tragi-farcical unities of history.
|
|
It's times like these we might resolve to act with the knowledge that this spate of relative calm is farcical, hallow, and inevitably short-lived.
|
|
To the Editor: That state and national politicians denounce education in the humanities and liberal arts as somehow being less worthy of taxpayer dollars is farcical.
|
|
The elements that rubbed me the wrong way—farcical cultural stereotypes, the moveable type structure, really every single line of dialogue—are what made it work.
|
|
He was a leading backer of the "Wonga Coup", a farcical plot by British and other mercenaries to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
|
|
In case this was not farcical enough, enter Rachid Nekkaz, a French-born businessman of Algerian descent who unsuccessfully vied for the French presidency in 2007.
|
|
Though a farcical student council election may be a far cry from a presidential one, power and corruption can go hand-in-hand at any level.
|
|
These are undoubtedly places that exist in London, but to visit them in the order that Swift describes is frankly farcical, not to mention time-consuming.
|
|
The company said that it relied on its hourly employees, which the plaintiffs called a "farcical" claim with no evidence of training or policy in place.
|
|
A farcical House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday featuring Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager, emphasized how Democrats are struggling to hold Trump to account.
|
|
For the cast and crew, scattered across six countries, getting to the United States has been the real-life drama — in part maddening, in part farcical.
|
|
The phony pragmatism of incremental strategies to address climate change now surfacing on Capitol Hill may be less insidious than denialism but is nearly as farcical.
|
|
"I remember up to that point, the Trump campaign was a bit farcical and nobody was taking it seriously in the media or really anywhere," Golden said.
|
|
"This is a farcical ritual to rubber stamp Hun Sen's grip on power," APHR chairman Charles Santiago, a member of the Malaysian parliament, said in a statement.
|
|
No, but really, for as inevitable and tragic as Nina's death felt earlier in the season, Gaad's death in "Munchkins" feels very much avoidable and almost farcical.
|
|
WEINERSundance Selects "The punchline is true," the subject tells the camera in Weiner, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's new documentary on Anthony Weiner's farcical 220 mayoral campaign.
|
|
The scene is meant to be farcical — to show that Lex is so out of touch with reality, he believes men really don't care for their kids.
|
|
International observers have seen the farcical trial for what it was: an attempt to punish our journalists and dissuade other reporters from covering events in Rakhine State.
|
|
Love 'em or hate 'em, his colliding queens fit right into today's climate of farcical tragedy, where it's often hard to tell a scream from a laugh.
|
|
Despite his exoneration—and the robust support of both the biggest shareholder and the chairman, Urs Rohner—the slightly farcical affair is a blow to Mr Thiam.
|
|
That poetry is exemplified by authors such as Daniil Kharms and Aleksander Vvedensky, known for their farcical depictions of early Soviet life in all its casual brutality.
|
|
Below, their selfies and ancient doppelgängers — from more unknown women and men to the Syrian aristocrat Ahata — speak to the farcical failures of this facial recognition experiment.
|
|
The farcical six-car U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2005 and the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, tarnished by Ferrari 'team orders', remain talking points years later.
|
|
I'm curious if you'd have anything to say about what President Trump, this ghastly and farcical figure with the world at his fingertips, represents about the American psyche.
|
|
Just that what on its face is a farcical creation is a remarkably considered, diabolical play on the part of a company known for being considered and diabolical.
|
|
Is the administration chaotic and unworthy of its place in a mighty tradition, but more farcical than corrupting—a madcap approximation of government by a reality-television star?
|
|
The notion of the EU as a "global player" looks farcical at a time when Beijing, for example, barely pays attention to Brussels (and vice versa, grumble some).
|
|
FROM PEN: Cassandra Freeman Talks About the Runaway Success of Netflix's 'Luke Cage' The show's a comedy, half-farcical in its physicality, but there's a real generosity, too.
|
|
The idea that they, or any other Congress operating similarly in the future, might tackle entitlements in general, much less the cost control problems facing Medicare, is farcical.
|
|
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, founded by Kem Sokha and Sam Rainsy, was banned in 2017 ahead of elections last year that western countries dismissed as farcical.
|
|
What follows are a series of mildly farcical misadventures that revolve around Bridget's unexpected pregnancy after dalliances with two dreamboats who appear as if summoned by a genie.
|
|
It's a common internet experience: throw a foreign phrase into Google Translate or any other online translation tool and out comes a farcical approximation of the real thing.
|
|
What Greenberg failed to mention—and what makes Goodell's immediate response downright farcical—is that players want weed instead of the painkillers that are administered by team physicians.
|
|
And that, obviously, is what was done with it: The shot was circulated, chuckled over, goofed on and treated — as so much is online — as self-evidently farcical.
|
|
"It's farcical," said Maryth Yachnin, a lawyer at the Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario, a legal clinic in Toronto that is representing Mr. Campbell in the case.
|
|
In a bit of farcical head-scratchery, he presented a map in the Oval Office, on which the track of the hurricane had been altered to include Alabama.
|
|
"It's no coincidence that the administration's threat comes 24 hours after California led 16 states in challenging the president's farcical 'national emergency,'" Mr. Newsom said in a statement.
|
|
War Machine positions itself as a farcical tale starring a fictional character, but it's clearly based in reality (Netflix describes the film as "part reality, part savage parody").
|
|
Sometimes those mistakes are farcical: Gawker created a Twitter bot under the name "Il Duce" that tweeted Benito Mussolini quotes at Donald Trump; sure enough, Trump retweeted it.
|
|
"In his latest farcical report, Mr. Lynk stoops to a new low and (accuses) the Jewish State of stealing," Israel's mission in Geneva said in a statement to Reuters.
|
|
With its jumbled plotting and thin characterisation, "BlacKkKlansman" resembles a farcical, feel-good episode of a 1970s cop show in which some amiable police officers outwit some stupid rednecks.
|
|
And thus, in the blink of an eye, another farcical cycle of online was complete—but not before the text of Scarry's original tweet got turned into a meme.
|
|
Learning that the more information he provides the greater his remuneration, he invents a network of agents and increasingly farcical intelligence, to the delight of his minders in London.
|
|
Both describe a drug situation in prisons that would seem farcical, if it wasn't for the serious damage the situation is causing to inmates, prison officers, and prisoners' families.
|
|
But luckily for us, during that time, the previously unknown, absolutely bonkers hot head, managed to preside over a press briefing — in which he really delivered the farcical goods.
|
|
Whether the macabre crimes and farcical situations in "Happy End" are "realistic" is open to debate, but its scenario is probably less outlandish than we would like to think.
|
|
The idea that his voters would stand idly by—that he would stand idly by—as the convention nominates Rubio or Romney in his place is more than farcical.
|
|
It's an ending that focuses the mind not on the event's farcical elements but on the vision it was meant to promote, a vision Trump expressed all too clearly.
|
|
Then comes the farcical moment when Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger bump into each other on his front porch as they beg him to work on "Spartacus" and "Exodus".
|
|
Some of the responses to the final bongs have been faintly farcical -- such as the members of Parliament who wanted to stand with heads bowed, as if in prayer.
|
|
If Trump is a student of history, he has surely surmised that "presidential" is a kind of fraud, one he can put to farcical ends on the campaign trail.
|
|
Instead of a "Hispanic engagement tour," which is almost sure to be a farcical gesture, Republicans could stop demonizing immigrants and start thinking about actually fixing the immigration system.
|
|
The tendons of his jaw swell with the strain of stifled feelings; his brows, usually tasked with double takes and farcical arching, knit with a terrible weight of guilt.
|
|
As with the farcical oversight process—during which officials like Director of National Intelligence James Clapper can lie under oath, without consequence—these events pantomime democratic access and accountability.
|
|
TOKYO — Forty-one years ago, Antonio Inoki, one of Japan's most popular professional wrestlers, faced off against Muhammad Ali in a bout that critics called a farcical publicity stunt.
|
|
The race start was delayed for safety reasons amid farcical scenes, with rain before the event leaving all riders except Australian pole sitter Jack Miller on wet weather tires.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described the decision to award Eden Hazard a penalty in his side's 2-2 Premier League draw with Chelsea on Wednesday as "farcical".
|
|
"It's no coincidence that the administration's threat comes 24 hours after California led 16 states in challenging the president's farcical 'national emergency,'" Newsom said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
|
|
It's an art-house concept executed with blockbuster flair, an experiment in genre that shifts from farcical comedy to political thriller to dystopian science fiction and back for 171 minutes.
|
|
In the aftermath of $100+ per barrel oil prices and with Saudi Arabia having successfully implemented its first phase of market-share recapture, OPEC meetings have become virtually farcical encounters.
|
|
Which gave writer and director Madeleine Olnek the ripe opportunity to make a hilarious and moving film about Emily, Susan, Mabel, Austin, and the whole semi-farcical, semi-tragic situation.
|
|
His call for more direct talks between the parties to establish a Palestinian state, after acknowledging that the current Israeli government opposes Palestinian sovereignty, seemed farcical and detached from reality.
|
|
The line between parody and reality is a difficult one to define in these darkly farcical modern times, which so often feel like a trip through the wrong looking glass.
|
|
Many voters appeared to have only limited knowledge of the new constitution's implications, having been intentionally kept in the dark by the farcical way in which the referendum was conducted.
|
|
It was a disgraceful and farcical mass trial: more than 2628 people were hauled before Cairo Criminal Court for perceived crimes committed during a protest in the city in 28500.
|
|
Facebook featured a farcical news story in its popular "Trending Topics" section on Monday that reported popular prime-time Fox News host Megyn Kelly had been fired from the organization.
|
|
The farcical subplots involving Malvolio and Sir Andrew benefit from a new, modern translation by Olivier Cadiot, who has found witty puns to match Shakespeare's, without giving in to vulgarity.
|
|
Coined in 1953 by critic Amir Houshang Kavousi, the term would refer to the farcical and amateurish quality of micro-budget productions such as Elephant and Teacup (Rahim Roshanian, 1966).
|
|
One local man had brought large speakers that he used to crank out pop tunes, including Abba's "Dancing Queen," a soundtrack that helped transform the proceedings from ominous to farcical.
|
|
In many respects, Mr. Saunders's America is simply a nightmare vision of the future, an America only a few farcical steps removed from the country glimpsed every night on television.
|
|
By going 233-280 during his suspension, the Patriots created the farcical perception that they no longer needed him — that quarterbacks in New England's ruthless machinery are interchangeable, even Brady.
|
|
"Victoria & Abdul" is about an aging British queen, her eccentric obsession with an engaging Muslim servant from India and the half-farcical opposition of the British establishment to their relationship.
|
|
That's fine when you look at Indiegogo as primarily a sales platform — which, at this point, it very much is — but the pairing still makes the idea of crowdfunding seem farcical.
|
|
Mr Kart pointed to copious examples of his cartoons criticising and ridiculing Mr Gulen and his movement, suggesting that his terroristic ties to the organisation were as farcical as his drawings.
|
|
This song and video on the surface is slapstick and farcical but peel back a few layers and you've got a comment about the rejected, the freakish or marginalized and heroism.
|
|
In the event, May lost her majority and was forced into an agreement with a small party from Northern Ireland which tied her hands in her farcical efforts to deliver Brexit.
|
|
But as Rebeck shifts into even higher gear for a farcical, "Fawlty Towers"-esque episode and a predictable dramatic confrontation, the characters still feel as undernourished as the play is overcooked.
|
|
This culminates in the frenzied rhythm of the danse macabre of the coda, which sounds both farcical and ominous, after which he emerges from his seat, unkempt and drenched in sweat.
|
|
One of over a hundred journalists locked up in Turkey, Mr Alpay had been arrested on farcical terror charges in the summer of 2016, two weeks after a violent, abortive coup.
|
|
If the company insists on finding a new route, then the whole project should undergo a rigorous environmental impact review (not the farcical, fast-tracked "environmental assessment" that it got instead).
|
|
He failed in farcical fashion looking for a quick single that always looked like a gamble, left stranded when Brathwaite scuttled back to his crease as Peter Nevill broke the stumps.
|
|
Through a language of hilarity, Ubu Roi tells the farcical story of Père Ubu, an officer of the King of Poland and a grotesque figure who epitomizes the idiocy of officialdom.
|
|
Then yesterday, Barr put on a farcical press conference before he released the redacted Mueller Report, attempting to foam the runway for the news about to crash on Donald Trump's presidency.
|
|
Any additional elements incur grid penalties, which have been changed to avoid the farcical situations of the past where drivers incurred drops far in excess of the number of places available.
|
|
If we were to make explicit the implicit analogy that runs all the way through "Mortal Republic," we would most likely cast Donald Trump as a farcical reincarnation of Tiberius Gracchus.
|
|
There were so many sordid twists that it was more farcical than shocking, making it seem that the original incident needed to be pumped up in order to be truly horrifying.
|
|
Indeed, this gives a new meaning to the Socratic technique in insulting the jury, leaving senators to drink their milk as they are made farcical exhibits by the two legal teams.
|
|
Sometimes the humor goes from farcical to purely physical and visual, as in a joke involving the physiognomy of the Canadian character actor Julian Richings (known for playing Death in "Supernatural").
|
|
But "Cats" can&apost quite figure out what it wants to do — it oscillates between moments of pure, farcical camp and overblown earnestness too many times to be called self aware.
|
|
The conventional power dynamics of heterosexual love appear in grotesque extremity ("I want to live forever chained at your feet"), but Sylvie's wit and charm make them more farcical than troubling.
|
|
His efforts to save a stranger's failing marriage become increasingly contrived and farcical, ultimately propelling Pete into a hallucinatory, nighttime odyssey amid the coyotes, the cactuses and a sinister dancing teenager.
|
|
But the ceremony honoring Israel's founding in 1948 has already been marred by weeks of unseemly politicking and almost farcical twists and turns, all raucously played out in the Israeli news media.
|
|
The innovation of having a "face" may seem farcical in some ways but if humans and robots are to work together nonverbal communication is critical and that's one way to do it.
|
|
Yet the government would like the BNP to take part this time to prevent the election from looking as farcical as that of 2014, when less than half the seats were contested.
|
|
One of over 100 journalists locked up in Turkey, Mr Alpay had been arrested on farcical terrorism charges in the summer of 2016, a couple of weeks after a violent, unsuccessful coup.
|
|
But while the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have gone on so long that they're ripe for farcical skewering in the way the Cold War has been, War Machine isn't that film.
|
|
Profile Books; 192 pages; £12.99 WHENEVER AN INTER-STATE border is inserted into a hitherto seamless terrain, the consequences will range from the farcical to the tragic, and many will be unexpected.
|
|
The response has ranged from disbelief to delight, with some saying that giving the prize to Dylan is a farcical screw-up, and others arguing that no artist could be more deserving.
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 2982 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (22787:22).
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 2246 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (244:2212).
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 226200 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (2195:2718).
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 2811 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (24111:22).
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 2239 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (2:21).
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 1923 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (2212:2239).
|
|
A farcical, tuneful 22 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (200:2195).
|
|
He failed in farcical fashion looking for a quick single that always looked like a gamble, left stranded when Kraigg Brathwaite scuttled back to his crease as Peter Nevill broke the stumps.
|
|
But in Gil-Sheridan's fantastical, farcical script, Nadal, as played by Juan Arturo, is an exaggerated embodiment of the 16-time Grand Slam champion who finished this year atop the men's rankings.
|
|
But between such semi-farcical scenes a quieter drama emerges, as Toklas probes the small space Stein does not quite fill to see if there might be room to bloom in it.
|
|
Given the mood of Congress towards Russia, it is rather more likely that Congress would actually approve such legislation unlike the long, futile and even farcical, albeit dangerous, struggle over health care.
|
|
Mr. Butterfield left Yahoo in 2008 — but not before his email resignation, which included an elaborate, farcical story about tinsmithing that served as a metaphor for the internet company's mismanagement, went viral.
|
|
The idea that legislation like this must be passed by next Saturday, even in the absence of CBO analysis or time to discuss and amend, would be farcical if it weren't so dangerous.
|
|
" However, the World Heritage Committee opted not to include it during its annual meeting in Poland, a move praised by the Australian government as a "big win," but condemned by campaigners as "farcical.
|
|
"So now we have this farcical situation with an FCC Chairman who reinstated a technically obsolete rule while admitting it was an outdated relic, all to help big broadcasters get bigger," notes Wood.
|
|
Brisk, who did not respond to request for comment from MUNCHIES regarding whether she actually does this, is no stranger to going viral for food-adjacent tweets that are earnest and aggressively farcical.
|
|
Trump's "farcical" tweet failed to communicate a "rational deterrence policy" and risks fueling arms race dynamics with Russia and China, said Miles Pomper, Senior Fellow at the Washington-based Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
|
|
If the U.S. president and his Latin American counterparts don't want the Lima summit to be another missed opportunity — a farcical spectacle with no substance — it is time to start thinking big again.
|
|
This is par for the course for Mr. Bradshaw, whose soap-opera plots usually hinge on taboo sexuality depicted with such matter-of-fact graphic detachment that it can almost — almost — feel farcical.
|
|
The "Run, Selina, Run" signs are out for Selina Meyer, the onetime president played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO's farcical political comedy series, which returns Sunday for a seventh and final season.
|
|
SETH COLTER WALLS I haven't encountered much Poulenc in recent years, except for the farcical opera "Les Mamelles de Tiresias," heard twice: at Tanglewood in 1997 and at the Juilliard School in 2015.
|
|
If he's at all like Mr. Jonze, it's because he approaches outrageous or farcical topics with a straight face but he has much stronger views on emotional torture in art: He's for it.
|
|
Suspecting that Macron had been playing both sides, de Tricornot followed him back inside the building to confront him, and ended up chasing him around in a farcical game of hide-and-seek.
|
|
The show's 13 tightly plotted, highly serialized episodes play out like a farcical mini-series, as Eleanor's ultimate fate is debated, and surprisingly heady concepts, like Kantian ethics, are aired along the way.
|
|
This whole debacle not only demonstrated Trump's farcical and fake reputation as a deal-maker, it also exposed his cluelessness and naiveté when it came to knowledge of the actual policies being debated.
|
|
Then there's the Shadow Brokers, that mysterious person or group that surfaced in August with its farcical "auction" to profit from a stolen batch of extremely secret NSA hacking tools, in essence, cyberweapons.
|
|
That juggling act continues in Season 5, as Jimmy and Gretchen's fraught, sometimes agonizing progress toward adult responsibility is balanced by the more farcical subplots involving their small and motley collection of friends.
|
|
So we're either looking at espionage charges, which seems farcical with the evidence we have now, or we're looking at campaign finance violations, but I still don't see how there's anything of value there.
|
|
Bloomberg Businessweek, in a well-reported piece describing what it was like inside the White House as this trade war descended into the farcical, obtained a quote so good it made this reporter jealous.
|
|
" Four years later, when "The Smell of Night" appeared in English, she advised, "For sunny views, explosive characters and a snappy plot constructed with great farcical ingenuity, the writer you want is Andrea Camilleri.
|
|
But fittingly for someone who followed up "Tenor" with a similarly farcical "Crazy for You" libretto (and received Tony Award nominations for both), he can't resist sneaking a few laughs into Hercule Poirot's sleuthing.
|
|
A farcical, tuneful romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, "The Golden Bride" ("Di Goldene Kale") is an immigrant fantasy that looks as fondly on Mother Russia as on Uncle Sam.
|
|
"In some ways it is strange, because this election campaign is so farcical, so exaggerated," said David Litt, who was the lead writer on Obama's White House Correspondent's Association speech between 2012 and last year.
|
|
Sachs starred opposite Fawlty Towers creators John Cleese and Connie Booth in the beloved BBC sitcom, which aired in 1975 and 1979 and chronicled the farcical goings-on at a hotel on the English Riviera.
|
|
Markets had been in turmoil for two days, unsettled by a farcical back-and-forth between the populists and the country's president, who had rejected the parties' choice of a Eurosceptic economist as finance minister.
|
|
On October 25th this supposed exercise in democracy became more farcical still when only two of seven Supreme Court judges arrived at work to hear a last-ditch plea to postpone the election yet again.
|
|
"In his latest farcical report, Mr. Lynk stoops to a new low and (accuses) the Jewish State of stealing," Israel's mission in Geneva said in a statement to Reuters, calling Lynk a "known Palestinian advocate".
|
|
He was involved in one of the most farcical scenes in the race's history after being knocked off his bike when he, Richie Porte and Bauke Mollema crashed into the back of a camera motorbike.
|
|
Above: swathes of empty seats at Bolton's Macron Stadium To add to the farcical nature of opening night, a pair of managers named themselves as subs, despite having long called time on their playing careers.
|
|
Behind Cummings and Van Avermaet and the other members of the break, the 162.5-kilometer (101-mile) race from L'Isle Jourdain to Lac de Payolle high in the Pyrenees ended on an almost farcical note.
|
|
Fisher and Reynolds were loud voices in the push to recognize women as whole people and not just props in the entertainment industry, and These Old Broads, in its farcical way, was part of that.
|
|
He gets his chance when he lands a starring role in a revival tour of the farcical play "The Idiot President," in which he portrays the leader's son and becomes increasingly consumed by the role.
|
|
It's purposefully whimsical, everything about it is built to support its farcical premise of AI fighters stumbling toward each other on various battlefields, swinging weaponry around with the physical comedy that accompanies physics-based animations.
|
|
In this case, however, the attorney general is involving himself, personally, to an unusual degree — and he's doing so to advance a farcical idea meant to sully American intelligence agencies, all on behalf of Trump.
|
|
The show has two sources of humor, then — the parlor comedy of mother putting down son, and the physical, farcical comedy of Mr. Ranganathan blundering across Sri Lanka, gamely enduring the trials she has arranged.
|
|
And in "Human Raw Material," the show presents a slick series of farcical cases of mistaken identity (an Orphan Black specialty), as well as one of the most viscerally disturbing scenarios it's produced to date.
|
|
Kazan, years later, jokingly admitted that the film was basically about Ronald Regan when he was still tucking in a chimpanzee, and the film scarily mirrors aspects of our current farcical presidential nightmare under Donald Trump.
|
|
The gusts were not as strong at the Phoenix Snow Park but caused farcical conditions for the women's slopestyle final with snowboarders who had spent four years perfecting their routines blown off the hill by crosswinds.
|
|
China's "two conferences", held every year in Beijing, can seem farcical: empty rituals in which unelected Communist Party delegates happily endorse whatever is proposed, including the recent plan to remove term limits for President Xi Jinping.
|
|
"President Trump's attempts to defend this ban are as farcical as ever and only serve to defame thousands of transgender troops," Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in a statement.
|
|
But the opera amplifies the farcical aspects of Wilde's comedy of errors while leaving its rich autobiographical subtext — with allusions to the homosexual double life that eventually doomed its author to prison and exile — largely unmined.
|
|
And shortly after the arrest of al-Sisi's former running mate at the start of the year, several international and Egyptian rights groups called on the country's Western allies to publicly condemn its "farcical " presidential elections.
|
|
Usually these things are more like a highly anticipated boxing match between two big-time fighters that slowly devolves into a farcical exhibition of flailing arms and a bunch of hold me back, hold me back!
|
|
The loyalty of the military ensured that President Maduro was able to bypass the opposition-controlled National Assembly, beat back protesters and stage a farcical presidential election in May, giving him six more years in office.
|
|
In London, the thing came to a merciful end with McGregor regaining some semblance of form and, thanks to Mayweather's flights of homophobia and misogyny, coming out looking like the hero of this farcical pugilistic fairytale.
|
|
Mr. Peretz and the screenwriters (Evgenia Peretz, the director's sister, is credited along with Tamara Jenkins and Jim Taylor) find an amiable farcical groove, and the actors embrace the ridiculousness of the circumstances without overdoing it.
|
|
Despite plenty of in-depth and arguably invasive coverage, the Bobbitts survive in modern memory as the stars of a crude, farcical, phallic-centric scandal — the specifics of their respective ordeals regularly omitted or relegated to shorthand.
|
|
Newsom, in a statement, linked the Trump administration action to California leading 15 other states in challenging what he called "the Presidents farcical 'national emergency,"' to obtain funds for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
|
|
That explains the courting of Mr Anwar, who was arrested shortly after Dr Mahathir sacked him, beaten by the chief of police and jailed for corruption and sodomy after a farcical trial, as Dr Mahathir stood by.
|
|
A five-man "verification commission" appointed by Mr Privert is to report by the end of May on the conduct of the first round, which was denounced as farcical by the candidate who came second, Jude Célestin.
|
|
" A few days later, the by-now-almost-farcical situation was resolved: He invited Celia once more to his flat, and although "he seemed rather irritated ... at last he was able to lead me to the bed.
|
|
And the idea that epic poetry remains possible in American political discourse has fared even worse, made almost farcical by entrenched congressional deadlock and two presidential candidates seen as dishonest and untrustworthy by large majorities of voters.
|
|
Over all, the general sense was that whether she was a Kremlin stooge or not, the entrance of a glamorous young woman into mainstream Russian politics would make what many consider a farcical race even more fantastic.
|
|
This selection of new comics may help fight the winter doldrums and give some extra reasons to look forward to spring, with coming-of-age adventures, ruminations on the past and a farcical look at the future.
|
|
Egypt's Western allies were urged to publicly condemn the country's upcoming "farcical" presidential elections on Tuesday after authorities detained an anti-corruption official and a former running mate of a challenger to President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.
|
|
"Today's decision renders the judiciary complicit in a farcical miscarriage of justice," Matthew Bugher, Head of Asia Programme for Article 19, a U.K.-based human rights organization that focuses on freedom of expression, said in an emailed statement.
|
|
It is tempting to think that the camera will pan out to a revelatory tableau, or at least something that will help to explain the colourful, chaotic, farcical mess that was the past 113 minutes of the film.
|
|
There was one particularly farcical moment in the hospital when the baby was crying and my parents, my husband, and I each took turns trying to swaddle her, consulting three different, contradicting sets of instructions we found online.
|
|
Her directorial debut is a dark tale set in the run up to a kid's birthday celebration, an absurdist, Black Mirror-style short featuring an attempt to hide an unwanted corpse with a dastardly, farcical, side-splitting denouement.
|
|
For a decade, Russia has been sponsoring right-wing extremists as "election observers" — most recently, in the farcical referendums in the Crimea and in the Donbas region of Ukraine — in order to discredit both elections and their observation.
|
|
This unsightly stampede toward a post-gendered consensus disarmed thoughtful commentary in much the fashion that disbelieving Black Americans saw the farcical post-racial discourse overtake any other left-leaning position on race more than a decade ago.
|
|
"Tread," with music by Christian Wolff and décor by Bruce Nauman (the subject of a sprawling retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art in October), is considered one of Cunningham's lighter works, with farcical movement and entanglements.
|
|
The episode hits a farcical high back at ATN, where Tom is asked to question the controversial anchor Mark Ravenhead, who reportedly attended a white nationalist conference in college and later got married at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" stronghold.
|
|
On a day of shifting explanations and damaging revelations Tuesday, pressure built inexorably on chief of staff John Kelly, who presides over a West Wing flailing amid farcical crisis management and an inability to take a moral stand.
|
|
Moreover, his once farcical story has recently taken a dark and creepy turn with those texts to an underage girl; if all he can offer, instead of comic relief, is more misery and loathing, we don't want him.
|
|
A farcical episode on Monday when at one point it seemed the military had announced it was pulling back troops from Iraq -- then said it made a mistake -- painted an unflattering picture of the administration's decision-making process.
|
|
This might seem like merely a farcical move by Hindu fanatics, if it were not so in line with much else that is happening in Mr. Modi's India, and if the implications for India's democracy weren't so chilling.
|
|
During Brexit, the Lords have taken on outsized importance, demanding fundamental and worthwhile changes to the government's fitful efforts to negotiate Britain's departure from the EU. Farcical by-elections can only undermine an undemocratic yet still effective second chamber.
|
|
Unlike, say, Yukio Mishima, who would ultimately take mental flight into a militant, hyper-romantic Japanese past (he staged an elaborate ritual suicide that ended in almost farcical fashion), Mizumura has embraced the complex embroidery of Japan's modern history.
|
|
The world right now is more farcical than the most ridiculous big- or small-screen comedy; more extravagantly and bombastically preposterous than any superhero franchise movie; and a whole lot scarier than any zombie apocalypse or paranormal shriek-fest.
|
|
The importance of the Grand Slam events can lead to farcical events like the one this week at the WTA tournament in Hobart, Australia, in a second-round match between 127th-ranked Elise Mertens and 135th-ranked Sachia Vickery.
|
|
" In response to the Department of Transportation's cancellation of the grant, Newsom told CNN in a statement, "It's no coincidence that the Administration's threat comes 24 hours after California led 16 states in challenging the President's farcical 'national emergency.
|
|
"We showed great mental resources (to draw) and got a farcical decision again on the penalty, but we knew that (could happen) as well before (the game) so we have to deal with that," Wenger told a news conference.
|
|
Though the Tropic Thunder star, 41, who plays Franco's unreliable dealer, was shot multiple times, drove through a barn, and had his car explode, his persistent survival became one of the film's most farcical concepts—and was incidentally not planned.
|
|
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Association of National Olympic Committees postponed their presidential election amid farcical scenes on Wednesday in the wake of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah's decision to temporarily step down from the post because of an ongoing legal case.
|
|
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Belgium's David Goffin retained his Kooyong Classic title in almost farcical circumstances on Friday when he beat Ivo Karlovic 7-2 in a tiebreaker after the final of the Australian warm-up was reduced to a one-set shootout.
|
|
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Full-page advertisements are popping up in major U.S. newspapers offering to pick up Americans' dinner leftovers and deliver them to the needy, a farcical campaign designed to raise awareness of hunger, its organizers say.
|
|
The case, in which Hogan sued Gawker for publishing a sex tape involving him and the wife of his then-best friend, could often seem farcical — part of Hogan/Bolea's testimony involved the difference between Bolea's and Hogan's penis size.
|
|
OAKMONT, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - The final round of the U.S. Open was thrown into an almost farcical state of confusion on Sunday over a penalty controversy but Dustin Johnson made it a moot question by rolling to victory by three strokes.
|
|
It is time that LGBT people stop being used as political pawns, it is time that we end the farcical bathroom wars and, most importantly, it is time to focus on the real threats to the lives of LGBT people worldwide.
|
|
LAC DE PAYOLLE, France (Reuters) - The seventh stage of the Tour de France ended in farcical fashion on Friday when an inflatable arch, marking 1km to go, deflated and slowed down the bunch, sending Briton Adam Yates to the ground.
|
|
And when he consults with Michele Ferrari, the Italian doctor, cycling coach and champion of EPO (played with a farcical edge by Guillaume Canet), what the movie dubs the most sophisticated doping scandal in sports history shifts into high gear.
|
|
"The case against Brunson, like tens of thousands of other political prosecutions in Turkey, was farcical from the beginning, comprised of guilt-by-association, fabricated evidence, and secret witness testimony," Howard Eissenstat, a Turkey expert at St. Lawrence University, told me.
|
|
As might be expected, these plans, some of which were shared exclusively with the San Diego Union Tribune, ranged from the overly optimistic (a wall made of solar panels) to the farcical (a wall of artists standing around redrawing border lines).
|
|
Muhammad Ali's 1976 match with Japanese pro wrestler Antonio Inoki was every bit as farcical, money-grabbing, and pointless as this weekend's bout is going to be, with the added bonus that Floyd is no Ali and McGregor is no Inoki.
|
|
His lawyers cooked up a farcical literal reading of state law to justify the decision, but Democrats — led by former Attorney General Eric Holder — intervened, the state courts laughed off Walker's case as absurd, and so the elections were called.
|
|
If the devastating first month of the Trump presidency has taught us anything, it is that the contention by some on the left that there would be no difference between a Clinton presidency and a Trump presidency was utterly farcical.
|
|
What we haven't seen, at least not extruded through the farcical paradigm of reality television, is an autonomous black woman asserting herself as the ultimate catch, something men of all races should be lucky for the opportunity to compete for.
|
|
Miike has worked in a wide variety of genres, from the gruesome body horror (and social commentary) of Audition to the farcical musical comedy of The Happiness of the Katakuris to the traditional children's fantasy of The Great Yokai War.
|
|
The characters on stage are portrayed in ridiculous ways: their obedient bow to the rich old woman is idiotic; their greed is farcical; their willingness to put aside loyalty is weak; their poor excuses for taking the money are laughable.
|
|
The show emerges from the shadow of The Colbert Report and operates as a parody of conservative cable news programs; Klepper's contrarian persona "Jordan Klepper" is a farcical but less combustible version of Alex Jones, the blustering conservative Infowars host and conspiracy theorist.
|
|
Much like the bogus and farcical Nigerian princes that once begged for a few hundred dollars in your email inbox, they appeal to basic human instincts — like greed or sympathy — to con people out of small sums of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether.
|
|
In fact, Sanchez has only fought seven times since his 2010 win over Paulo Thiago, with a record of 3-4 in that run and some controversial decision wins to boot—namely the farcical split decision victory over bruising Brit Ross Pearson.
|
|
Note Books By my informal tabulation, another fan favorite, Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," ranks as the book most frequently introduced into conversations I've had at parties and at school pickups since the farcical, (mostly) epistolary novel was published in 2012.
|
|
" Although O'Brien admits that he does "stand by every word" he wrote in the essay, the settlement came about because he "decided to forgo a potentially farcical and expensive jury trial in federal court over five jokes that don't even make sense anymore.
|
|
If you can put aside the more troubling aspects of Trump's buffoonish praise of Putin -- smearing his own intelligence community, letting Russia off the hook for election interference, throwing our NATO allies under the bus -- I guess the whole thing is fairly farcical.
|
|
Given that nearly every superdelegate backs Clinton — and Sanders almost certainly won't have the pledged delegate majority or popular vote majority necessary to argue they're obligated to switch to backing him — that's a notion so farcical as to be not worth seriously considering.
|
|
Nochlin pans a "farcical" exhibition on prostitution at Paris's Musée d'Orsay in just a few sentences, without much detail, and her assessment of four Irish hunger memorials is also slim — she concedes that she could not travel to see most of them.
|
|
Mike Hoare, an Irish soldier of fortune who led white mercenary forces in civil wars in Congo in the 1960s and a ragtag band of commandos in a farcical aborted coup in the Seychelles in 1981, died on Sunday in Durban, South Africa.
|
|
He has since apologized, and it's easy enough to cast his rant as a farcical overreaction — the insecurity of a broadcaster working in the shadow of an elder brother who embraced the family dynasty and followed their father, Mario, to the governorship.
|
|
Ryan could condemn House Oversight Committee Chair Trey Gowdy and House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte for holding farcical hearings on FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok meant to cast the whole effort to investigate Trump's Russia conduct as a witch hunt.
|
|
The experiment with VAR at FIFA's Club World Cup in December will be remembered for a farcical incident when Cristiano Ronaldo's strike for Real Madrid, his 500th career goal, against Club America was initially given, potentially ruled offside, then allowed to stand after video analysis.
|
|
And the financial situation at Rayo Oklahoma City became so farcical that one of its minority owners seized the pitch—as in, he literally absconded with part of the playing surface, because he feared it would otherwise be auctioned off to cover operating costs.
|
|
Through leaked documents, reporters Tom Warren and Alex Campbell revealed the farcical scramble inside one of the world's dirtiest banks to conceal incriminating information – while some of the planet's most prestigious accountants and lawyers used their powers to keep the bank, FBME, in business.
|
|
There are clear nods to the farcical free-for-all feel of the old Howard Stern Show, though given Awesome Show's penchant for showcasing Hollywood fringe personalities like David Liebe Hart and James Quall, it operates without a full-fledged "Wack Pack" to speak of.
|
|
While the rest of the world was coming to terms with the devastating news that Nice, France was hit by what seems to be terrorist attack, leaving more than 80 people dead, Trump's reality show search for a running mate took a farcical turn.
|
|
Comey has yet to speak publicly about Trump's claims but his allies, without their names attached, have described the idea that he would have told the President that he wasn't under investigation as "literally farcical," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
|
|
Shadowy, horse-mounted figures, ominously lit houses, and hovering crows populate the works along with a stark title and date at the bottom, providing each work with a sense of formality and truthfulness that is ultimately farcical; these are fictional scenes, as interpreted by Libeskind.
|
|
"This Lindsey Graham stopped a bloodthirsty, farcical attack from the Left on our nation's most honored institutions," Benny Johnson, the chief creative officer at Turning Point USA, a right-wing student organization, wrote on Twitter last month, posting a video of Mr. Graham's Kavanaugh tirade.
|
|
"It's not even that Maduro lacks Chávez's incredibly charming ability to disarm and bring you into his fold — it's that he tries to emulate it and it comes out as farcical," Alejandro Velasco, a historian of Latin America at New York University, told me.
|
|
First, his daughter let herself in and danced behind him while Kelly tried to continue talking — and then a baby in a walker rolled through the door, followed by a flustered woman who dragged them out of the room in a near-farcical rush.
|
|
This arrangement, as you might expect, leads to some sexy complications and farcical misunderstandings (also what feels like the 15 zillionth iteration of the "somebody accidentally consumes edibles" plot on television), as the sisters are surrounded by a large group of diverse, attractive young people.
|
|
The spreadsheet outlining their bonuses and pay raises—released by FIFA today—reads as a farcical account of money changing hands between a scant five signatories: Blatter, Valcke, Kattner, former FIFA vice president Julio Grodona, and even Blatter's replacement as acting FIFA president after allegations, Issa Hayatou.
|
|
Then there were the hundreds of attempts by the CIA to assassinate him, ranging from the farcical—an exploding cigar—to near-misses: a dose of botulism that burst before it could be added to a milkshake by a barman at the Habana Libre (ex-Hilton) hotel.
|
|
When: Opens Thursday, June 2 ($30) Where: The Muse (350 Moffat Street, Bushwick) Le Comte Ory is a exuberantly farcical 53th-century opera involving advice-giving hermits, bad disguises, and wine stolen from a castle cellar, so what better setting than the Muse circus school in Bushwick?
|
|
During a handy explanation of the pertinent rules of football, he includes a display reading "Alternate Programming: What Football Fans Crave," a purposely stereotypical and farcical presentation that includes demolition derbies, people looking angry for no apparent reason, and a man running through the woods on fire.
|
|
They brought their album as evidence against Park's alleged North Korean alliances in an attempt to prove that the Bamseom Pirates' and their associates were essentially jokesters saying whatever they could to show what they perceived as the farcical nature of South Korea and North Korea.
|
|
Incidents such as the killing of a group of Mexican tourists mistaken for terrorists by the air force, or the government's farcical handling of what appears to have been the bombing of a Russian civilian airliner on Egyptian territory in October, show the state to be inept.
|
|
Space weather sounds almost farcical as a term taken on its own, but the potential impact on Earth is no joke – a 1989 blackout that spanned the entire Canadian province of Quebec, for instance, can be attributed directly to the results of a significant solar storm.
|
|
"It's not just, not right, on the face of things it's farcical," Alex Howard, open government advocate and former deputy director at the Sunlight Foundation told me in a phone call And it's a perfect case for diversifying revenue away from platforms like Google and Facebook.
|
|
In the succeeding decades, this work has been performed sporadically, always in a radically edited and condensed version, most notably in New York and London in the mid-1980s, in a farcical riff by Michael Frayn called "Wild Honey," starring a ravishingly seedy Ian McKellen as Platonov.
|
|
The film is a treacly rom com about a plucky but unpopular teenage girl named Lara Jean Song Covey (Lana Condor) who, through a series of farcical happenings straight out of Molière, ends up in a fake relationship with the king of the cafeteria: Peter Kavinsky.
|
|
Their melancholy, ethereal music crossed borders that would seem farcical to an outsider, but are held in deep reverence by those who are sworn to their love of black metal, doom, neofolk, progressive rock, acoustic guitar, ambient music—or, thanks to Agalloch, all of the above.
|
|
Of course, pretty much everyone in Richard Bean and Clive Coleman's frantically farcical "Young Marx," directed by Nicholas Hytner (the former head of the National Theater and the founder, with Nick Starr, of the Bridge), toils in the shadow of the supersized ego of its title character.
|
|
Talk about meet cute: A perfectly paced farcical sequence puts the sea captain Aulay Mackenzie (he of the kilt) on a literal collision course with a hapless bunch of bootleggers led by Lottie Livingstone, who steps up to lead her clan after her father is gravely wounded.
|
|
More recently, Mr. Palin played the politician Vyacheslav Molotov in "The Death of Stalin," a coming film directed by Armando Iannucci, in which an ensemble cast (also featuring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor and Simon Russell Beale) offers a farcical look at a chaotic moment in Soviet history.
|
|
When Orlando becomes a woman, Jenny König, who plays the role, dons a green dress with oversize side hoops that force her to navigate the sets sideways — a situation both farcical and visually revealing, showing Orlando's frustration with the new restrictions she faces as a woman.
|
|
After spending $7 billion, suffering one farcical accident after another at sea and coming up mostly dry in the one hole it drilled, Shell Oil announced in September 2015 that it was shelving any further plans to drill on its remaining lease in the Chukchi Sea.
|
|
The Favourite is both farcical — there's a ridiculous, deadpan take on a country dance sequence that's one of the greatest things I've seen all year — and the least overtly weird movie that its director, Yorgos Lanthimos (of The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer), has ever made.
|
|
What's going on: In oil and gas, the last decade has been an almost farcical series of bad calls — starting in 1.33 with an oil price spike to $21.3 a barrel and a consensus that the era of low prices was over because of a fossil fuel shortage.
|
|
Turkey was to release the pastor, Andrew Brunson, who had languished in prison since his arrest on farcical terrorism charges in late 2016, while America would allow Hakan Atilla, a Turkish banker convicted of violating the embargo against Iran, to serve the rest of his sentence at home.
|
|
Tenor turned movie star Nelson Eddy plays a new character who forms a bromance with another rival for soubriquet Suzanna Foster's affections in order to rescue her from her obsessive stalker, Claude Rains — a rather farcical plot that plays out against a constant backdrop of glitzy opera staging.
|
|
In his latest film, "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)," the pursuit of happiness—a mission as farcical as it is ingrained—begins with Danny Meyerowitz ( Adam Sandler ), who is driving in Manhattan with his teen-age daughter, Eliza (Grace Van Patten), and looking for somewhere to park.
|
|
In the new musical comedy "The Prom," a farcical quartet of self-centered theater stars who descend on a small town in Indiana are played by a farce-loving quartet of real theater stars who have been encouraged to portray their roles as heightened versions of their own personalities.
|
|
NBC's farcical sitcom Will & Grace debuted in 20173, at a time when gay characters were barely represented on TV. Its central couple wasn't a will-they won't-they romance, but a fiercely close friendship between gay lawyer Will (Eric McCormack) and his straight best friend Grace (Debra Messing).
|
|
" The NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists, called on the U.S., European Union (EU) and individual European countries to "denounce these farcical elections, rather than continue with largely unquestioning support for a government presiding over the country's worst human rights crisis in decades.
|
|
Hong Man Choi's fighting career—coupled with his questionable exploits outside of combat sports, which has also seen him arrested for assaulting a woman over an unpaid bar tab—has been farcical since its inception and ROAD FC's latest event shows no sign of that changing any time soon.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There is something simultaneously comic and tragic about the history of being black in the United States, and that in-between, simultaneously farcical and deplorable (and sometimes transcendent) state is often starkly rendered in our politics, our language, our laws, and our rituals.
|
|
Louis Napoleon's rise was farcical; this may ring a bell, but with no achievements in life beyond inherited wealth, he was going to be a populist tribune of the people while simultaneously leading the party of order that would defend traditional morality and private property from the depredations of socialism.
|
|
John Clune, the same attorney who represented Erica Kinsman against former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston in another farcical Title IX hearing, is also representing this woman and announced that she will not attend the hearing as long as Jake Schickel, a Florida Law alum and Jacksonville attorney remains involved.
|
|
Editorial After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students' skirt lengths, France's perennial problem with Muslim women's attire has taken its most farcical turn yet with a new controversy over the "burkini," body-covering swimwear whose name is an amalgam of burqa and bikini.
|
|
His latest salvo in this quixotic mission comes in the form of a roughly 4,200-word essay in the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine—a work of almost admirable audacity that somehow manages more clearly than any attempt yet to expose the farcical nature of Anton's three-year project.
|
|
India's foreign ministry said that the proceedings that led to the sentence against Mr. Jadhav "were farcical in the absence of any credible evidence against him" and added that the Indian High Commission, its diplomatic mission in Pakistan, was not even informed that Mr. Jadhav was being brought to trial.
|
|
Yet the smooth, cute, and joyous mood of Schlemmer's robotic sensibility conveys something that at least temporarily alleviates the feeling that we are living in an epoch of click-bait robotics fueled by predatory virtual capital, where memes and farcical fragments of vanity culture keep repeating before our eyes, ad infinitum.
|
|
On the accompanying label, Abdul Hadi explains that she is taking control of art history "in a time where it is often influenced by political agendas" — a riposte to BP's farcical support of an exhibition about a civilization that was situated in a modern-day country it has helped to destroy.
|
|
She took my fixation as an object for her own amusement—teasing me about my preferences, taking every demand for a snack as an opportunity to make a new farcical concoction aimed at my distress: sandwiches stuffed with funny leftovers, apples ladled with something unwelcome like mayonnaise, or with sweet strawberry jam.
|
|
Hornick writes, "The howler monkey sees Mary Magdalene's altruism and emboldens her to give to herself and express loudly while listening, instructed by his jungle cry; serious playing ensues…" A farcical scene unfolds in which basketballs bounce and ham sandwiches are served to Queen Isabella of Portugal and Madame Bonnier de la Mosson.
|
|
And the mise-en-scène — its flamboyant and farcical qualities, its digitally simulated grace — places us unmistakably in the realm of Pen & Pixel, the Houston-based graphic-design firm that prospered from 1992 to 2003 by bringing just this combination of menacing nonchalance and near-utopian affluence to the nation's album covers.
|
|
Americans glimpsed a rather different idea of public service in the wee hours of Friday when Senator John McCain turned his right thumb down and blocked his party's attempt at policy making by partisan riot, its farcical scramble to attack the health care system with no vision for how to remake it.
|
|
They rely on some common domestic-comedy situations and characters — the grumpy old-timers, the underachieving kids, the farcical family mix-ups, et cetera — and they do rely on the idea that no matter our color, creed, sexuality, physical abilities, or social class, we all share a lot of the same joys and heartbreaks.
|
|
But perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of the Games was a political backdrop that the major news networks appeared loath to address: the farcical impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, an event that closed an era of leftist dominance in the country's politics that began with the tenure of Rouseff's mentor Lula da Silva.
|
|
"I wouldn't do that gesture again, but I don't think I offended anyone and at the time it seemed like the appropriate response to those who had insulted all my family" MANCHESTER CITY 6, SHAKHTAR DONETSK 13 Raheem Sterling went from the farcical to the sublime in helping Manchester City past visiting Shakhtar Donetsk.
|
|
James would have reaped rewards whether he attended college or not, but "Student Athlete" makes clear that his generation of players essentially dodged the farcical aspects of what's come to be known as the "one and done" rule, which was devised to prevent basketball players from entering the pros straight out of high school.
|
|
The possible conflicts of interest posed by his many businesses, which operate in countries from Turkey to Argentina, can play out in farcical ways, such as when he complained to Nigel Farage, the acting leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, about the wind farms that mar the view from his golf course in Scotland.
|
|
Some of the hottest, weirdest, relentlessly provocative, and most accomplished paintings — like the vivid, shimmering, and seemingly gelatinous "Untitled" (216) and the brute "Untitled" (circa 2003), where a farcical woman-bird dominatrix seems to be up to something ominous — appear to have developed out of the machine-like repetitions seen in the 1989 drawing "Untitled" (1989).
|
|
The government's response is that there will be no "substantive change" to the protection of LGBT rights once the charter is rescinded following Britain's exit from the EU. "The implication that any (rights) will change as a result of our decision to leave the institutions of the European Union is farcical," a spokeswoman for the British government said.
|
|
The cannabis laws in the State of Minnesota aren't exactly lax, and a bunch of public servants, whose duties involve fining and arresting people who want to spark up a joint, setting up farcical cages consisting of cardboard boxes and Nacho Cheese Doritos seems a bit sinister—if not, in the very least, entirely tone-deaf.
|
|
The special counsel and other interminable farcical investigations, including into obstruction, Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE, Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, are all in service of the greater plan.
|
|
But because the compressed daylong date, capped by an elaborate Korean-themed dinner, carries very much real-life nuclear and gulag consequences, the rendezvous that proved long on bonhomie and woefully short on dismantlement discussions on weapons-and-camps of mass destruction merely reaffirms a cliché: Karl Marx's dictum that history repeats itself in tragi-farcical cycles.
|
|
The offerings can be divided into portrayals that are fictional (a live orangutan going on a road trip with Clint Eastwood in 1978's Every Which Way But Loose), factual (documentarian Frederick Wiseman's account of scientific testing on live apes in 33's Primate), and farcical (a man in a suit in the 1977 Hong Kong King Kong ripoff Mighty Peking Man).
|
|
The penis is her ostensible subject, yet there are other stories here: a coming-of-age one, and another about what it means to be the not-so-proud owner of both a sack of sex potatoes built, at least in part, to give pleasure to men, and a brain that finds a lot of the business of sex farcical.
|
|
The penis is her ostensible subject, yet there are other stories here: a coming-of-age one, and another about what it means to be the not-so-proud owner of both a sack of sex potatoes built, at least in part, to give pleasure to men, and a brain that finds a lot of the business of sex farcical.
|
|
Like this one, a completely farcical tale of Brown throwing a hot McDonald's McCafé beverage at someone wearing a gay pride T-shirt: There are also crasser, more to-the-point variations, which mainly consist of an obviously bad photoshop of Brown saying that she wants to run over gay men with her car and a recent variation that ascribes false stories of hateful racism to Brown.
|
|
Germany 210, Italy 230 | Germany wins on penalty kicks, 6-5 | European Championships Quarterfinals BORDEAUX, France — After 120 minutes of cautious, grindingly intense play followed by eight rounds of often farcical penalty kicks, a relatively unheralded defender for Germany, Jonas Hector, struck a fairly mediocre shot from 12 yards out that somehow slithered under Gianluigi Buffon, the star Italian goalkeeper, who essentially dived over the ball.
|
|
These new supporters—call them the Jacobinites—knew from bitter experience that the neoliberal case for a trickle-down recovery was something close to farcical: Coming of age amid the savage 2008 recession made them highly suspicious of the promise of capitalist opportunity as they faced down a long-term descent into crippling debt, punctuated by a series of too many crappy jobs in the gig economy.
|
|
There, among the broken plates, the angst, and the forced juxtapositions of modernism's last and near farcical art movement was an older painter, a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, quietly composing visual music that, like Claude Debussy's more-than-a-century-old piano portfolio, remains as rich and as readably complex today — perhaps even more so — than when first shared with the public.
|
|
A Valentine's Day episode around season three's midpoint — which traps all of the characters in the Alvarez apartment for some farcical fun — is a sparkling mix of rom-com, "everything falls apart" calamity, and heated making out, while several other episodes capitalize on Tobolowsky's unique ability to make just about any ridiculous outfit somehow even more ridiculous by the mere act of wearing it.
|
|
N. envoy * Accuses Israel of "apparent act of pillage" at stone quarries * Israeli delegation boycotts session at Human Rights Council * Israel mission rejects "latest farcical report" By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, March 18 (Reuters) - Israel is depriving millions of Palestinians of access to a regular supply of clean water while stripping their land of minerals "in an apparent act of pillage", a United Nations human rights investigator said on Monday.
|
|
And the show doing that with the most farcical tang, at the moment, is "Atlanta," now in its first season on FX. The premise is otherwise sitcom standard: A Princeton dropout named Earn (Donald Glover) comes back home to Atlanta and tries to manage the rap career of his weed-dealer cousin, Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), and help raise a toddler with his baby mama, Van (Zazie Beetz).
|
|
It may cost him some of his readership on the right, but Ellis, clearly, has reached the limit of his tolerance for the mythical, indeed farcical, notion that the anti-Federalists won the argument in the late 18th century, or that the founders, to a man, stood for small and weak government, unrestrained market capitalism, unfettered gun ownership and the unlimited infusion of money into the political sphere.
|
|
Opinion Columnist President Trump has been all over the place on Iran, which is what happens when you take a serious subject, treat it with farcical superficiality, believe braggadocio will sway a proud and ancient civilization, approach foreign policy like a real estate deal, defer to advisers with Iran Derangement Syndrome, refuse to read any briefing papers and confuse the American national interest with the Saudi or Israeli.
|
|
On Thursday, the two Russian men charged by British authorities with carrying out the Salisbury attack mentioned they had visited Switzerland during their extensive travels through Europe, when they appeared in a farcical interview with Russian state network RT. "If memory serves me well, we had just a couple of trips to Switzerland," said the man identified as Alexander Petrov, who claims to be in the sports nutrition business, but who Britain says is an agent for Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU.
|
|
In the end, the idea that Pelosi and Schumer could meaningfully engage with Trump on an infrastructure bill while he refuses to let Congress conduct oversight of his administration was farcical to begin with, as this tweet from the Daily Beast's Sam Stein indicates: He may be defying our subpoenas, mocking our attempts at oversight, refusing to follow the law on releasing his tax returns, and barely briefing us on the intel on Iran, but we're still eager to hear his proposed payfors on infrastructure pic.twitter.
|
|
"This is an outrageous step, and the justifications provided in the BOEM contingency plan — that the employees are needed 'to comply with the Administration's America First energy strategy,' and that 'failure to hold these [offshore] sales would have a great negative impact on the Treasury and negatively impact investment in the U.S. Offshore Gulf of Mexico' — are farcical and make it clear that the administration cares only about the impacts on its favorite industry and not about workers, their families, and ordinary Americans," the Democrats wrote Wednesday to acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
|
|
"This is an outrageous step, and the justifications provided in the BOEM contingency plan -- that the employees are needed 'to comply with the Administration's America First energy strategy,' and that 'failure to hold these [offshore] sales would have a great negative impact on the Treasury and negatively impact investment in the U.S. Offshore Gulf of Mexico' -- are farcical and make it clear that the administration cares only about the impacts on its favorite industry and not about workers, their families, and ordinary Americans," the Democrats wrote Wednesday to acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
|
|