Example sentences for: farcical

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

  • It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.

  • The White House may have been in crisis all year, but the events were less the stuff of great drama than of a farcical musical comedy.

  • As a matter of fact, instead of focusing on polling's farcical contributions to an enlightened society, he conveys the notion that polling is/would be credible without the manipulations (subtle or otherwise).

  • Laughter created by farcical comportment, or by satire, creates an opposition to the prescribed value and to the seriousness of it.

  • The new screenplay also adds "farcical plot and sight gags to provide hilarity" to the story of the relationship between a commodity trader and the 13-year-old son he finds in the Amazon, according to the Los Angeles Times . Dissenters call the plot ridiculous and the gags tiresome.


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