Example sentences for: farce

How can you use “farce” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Reviews of the latest farce from the British satirist both wince and smirk at its unrelenting scatological humor and unflattering sendups of authors Robert Hughes and Oliver Sacks.

  • In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.

  • Imagine Harpo Marx giving the hot foot to a pompous official, who takes out a machine gun and blows him away: That's how cheap Benigni's hash of farce and tragedy is.

  • This musical adaptation of an 18 th -century French farce about a princess who courts a philosopher is the season's surprise success.

  • 3. Being John Malkovich . Close to pure farce yet grounded in loneliness, impotence, self-loathing, envy.


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