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"This experiment was a farce," Patricia said irritably.
That fashionable gymnastic rubbish is a mere farce.
Then came the finale of this diplomatic farce.
Burlesque, farce and extravagance of situation and dialogue.
Tragedy had dwindled, the farce had begun.
Of what a farce have I been the dupe!
The one act is melodrama, the other farce.
Comedy demands characters, and leaves caricatures to farce.
A pretty farce truly, this pretence at unconsciousness.
One of the most famous of early French farces.
She liked the theater, especially farces or melodramas.
The theater pleased her, especially farces or melodramas.
There was something loathsome about the little farce.
His range extends from genteel comedy to farce.
An endless series of absurd pseudonyms intensified the farce.
What a solemn and heartrending farce is here enacted!
You talk of farce, I prefer the jester's farce.
Thurston has an aptitude for delicate and satirical farce.
This capricious maiden figures in comedy, tragedy, and farce.
They were malicious and scornful, representing it as a farce.
It is a farce, and I think a contemptible farce.
It will be a fitting end to a topsy-turvy farce.
The ludicrous creature made a farce of all he touched.
Is it all an exquisite farce or is it splendidly heroic?
Somehow it all seemed melodramatic to the verge of farce.
The election had been a farce of bribery and intimidation.
Only slight emotions are thwarted by an interlude of farce.
Would you like to adapt a French farce for me?
A capital program will be a pantomime and a farce.
They are caught in the unreality of this huge farce.
His good voice was serviceable in ballad opera and farce.
What a stupid and detestable farce this world is!
Poems, consisting of Songs, Ballads, Satires, Plays, and Farces.
The doctrine of vicarious atonement is a lie and a farce.
And what is farce, but melodrama in a happier shape?
Even if it came to a spanking it was only a farce.
Woman is undaunted force; Man controls it by mere farce!
Jonson's Silent Woman is one of the best English farces.
Some had received wonderful letters that bordered on uttermost farce.
The farce was too evanescent for me to reproduce it.
The sentries planted round our camp are a perfect farce.
We could not taunt back; we felt ourselves a farce.
This is the closing farce of the feast of carnival.
Ah, where was the use of keeping up this farce?
There is hardly any farce in the world more laughable.
"He is as serious as an English adaptation of a French farce."
The rules of evidence to the bystander seem an inhuman farce.
In the theater it might have ended in farce or melodrama.
Even farce misses its true effects if it contains no verisimilitude.
The use of bloodhounds in the Seminole war proved a farce.
Is fame a travesty, and the judgment of mankind a farce?
Life is such a beastly farce so far as I am concerned.
Your carnival farce with its shallow delusions is now over.
The intended tragedy was rapidly changed into a ludicrous farce.
Nine tenths of the plays are cheap melodramas or vulgar farces.
The petty jealousy of singers and players is a laughable farce.
Then what a distasteful, tedious farce does the fine dinner become!
In such circumstances the anathema was little more than a farce.
It showed up this whole grubby farce in its true colors.
Listen again to Rhymer: "'Othello' is a sanguinary farce without wit."
Randolph unintentionally turned the whole proceedings from tragedy to farce.
The farce comedy, the musical show are virtually minstrel shows.
One might call it a sort of Indian summer of his farce.
The governor and superintendent considered this proceeding a disgraceful farce.
I find it very irksome to keep up this farce of concealment.
The life of industry contains no elements of farce or of burlesque.
It is pitiable, a mock and farce upon the religion we profess.
Servility however chimes in, and plays Scrub in the farce.
In this scene, every circumstance concurs to turn tragedy to farce.
What a farce and a lark the dreaded examination had been!
The iniquitous farce grows of sufficient consequence to threaten the throne.
Justice Hawkins (I think) has denounced him as a pretentious farce.
His criticisms upon tragedy, comedy, and farce, are judicious and profound.
It was one of those estranged-husband-one-cocktail-too-many farces, full of innuendo and profanity.
In a word, farces commence in a postulate, which must be granted.
This farce was rehearsed every night, nearly word for word.
As far as I am concerned, the farce of kingship is played out.
Only its tedious solemnity prevents this play from being a farce.
"Don't you think this farce has been played long enough, mademoiselle?"
It has not yet ventured to attack this decrepit old farce.
And vulgar, ignoble farce was turned into a great historical drama.
Now follows a set of scenes hovering between farce and melodrama.
For his farces are physic, and his physic a farce is.
His effort at a farce having failed, he attempted to disclaim jurisdiction.
Once and again has this farce been acted before the Roman people.
If it is to be performed by regency, it proves to be a farce.
His discovery was depreciated and belittled, and made to appear a farce.
By the way, what do you make of last night's melodramatic farce?
Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance.
War would be a contemptible farce if it were not a tremendous tragedy.
Farce stands in the same relationship to comedy as melodrama does to tragedy.
What was the excuse for that terrible farce, the French Revolution?
It is a great, a ruinous folly which can only culminate in farce.
Now the public demand for melodrama and farce became very slack.
We might all dress up again and improvise a sort of Colonial farce.
In his dramatic efforts tragedy and farce were placed in amazing juxtaposition.
As far as he was concerned, it was a mere farce of a flirtation.
He was not greatly troubled about the rest of this grisly farce.
I have come to the conclusion that you have perpetrated a farce upon mankind.
What profit can he think to win through furtherance of this farce?