Sentence Examples:
And various are their inventions, and stratagems, to excite surprise, attract visitors, and keep up the holiday farce of the scene.
As he crossed the Vizier bridge, he skeptically remarked that he would have been healed without undergoing the farce of the pilgrimage.
This was not the terrible personification of the fell punishment of crime, but a smooth farce, acted amid universal satisfaction.
The roads remain impassable canals of mud, education is a farce, the introduction of machinery is frowned upon and progress is obstructed.
"Well then, let us arrange matters," she answered with the condescending smile that the farce, whatever its nature, merited.
To carry on the farce of married relationship; to submit to him, feeling only revulsion, repugnance, was nothing short of prostitution.
It is not often that a policeman laughs, but these policemen laughed like countrymen at the theater seeing their first farce.
They seldom degenerate into farce, as the Italians; nor do they confine their tragedies to rhyme and whining, as the French.
There are enough characters presented, too, peasants generally and townsfolk of the lower class, to make the farces a "reading of life."
This consisted of Uncle Tom's Cabin (with "fierce bloodhounds complete"), followed by a full length pantomime and a "roaring farce."
His imitations were pronounced perfect, and he soon rose to great celebrity in broad farce, burlesque, and the comic parts of melodrama.
Farce, on the contrary, professes to entertain, but this, in order more effectually to serve the interests of virtue and good sense.
And if it is merely an external acceptance of conventions without any further acceptance, even in act, then it is a contemptible farce.
Hesitatingly and sparingly did the Diet grant subsidies, and so defective was the payment that the grant became a mere farce.
Containing a variety of Comic Recitations in Prose and Poetry, Amusing Dialogues, Burlesque Scenes, Eccentric Orations, Humorous Interludes and Laughable Farces.
"Love," she said to me, apparently apropos of nothing at all, "must be a farce in a country where there is no moonlight."
It was a translation of a French farce, in which the marital infidelities of two young couples were the occasion of many mishaps.
In the road outside stood a group of three which struck Pump as strangely incongruous, like a group in a three act farce.
This group of course often contains marked features of burlesque and farce, and hence shows a close kinship with the foregoing.
Life, having for a little while drifted perilously near to the shores of dullness, again bobbed merrily on the waters of farce.
In these theaters, however (one must be just and not exaggerate), there are more farces played than comedies, more comedies than dramas.
These floggings, however, were not very severe; they were rather a species of farce, enacted to preserve alive the forms of discipline.
Some of his stories were dramatized by Dunlap, Hackett, and Matthews, the best of which is the laughable farce of Monsieur Mallet.
It goes without saying that the democrats always carried any and every precinct that they decided, and elections were mere farces.
Shakespeare's share in the play (the scenes in which the shrew and her tamer appear) is farce with ironic philosophical intention.
Not only in cheap plays and farces do people continue in perplexities that one question and one answer would put an end to.
The public was accustomed in farces to two or three comic characters, to satire at the expense of two or three ridiculous types.
Baxter (embarrassed at the thought that this sort of thing really only happens in a bedroom farce and moving towards her).
These all might be classed under either "farce" or "burlesque," but they seem to come more exactly under the kindred head of "extravagance."
As these clubs were composed principally of men of no education whatever, some of their "polemics" are remembered as the most laughable of farces.
If you prefer "dress pieces" and dramas to farces or burlesque, let some competent person curtail the one you choose to a suitable length.
If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce.
Francis that his conversation was "a sort of Roman punch, made up of tragedy, comedy, and the broadest of all possible farce."
There is a stage attached to this establishment; and farces and the ballet relieve the monotony of the sports of the ring.
Julia beat her brow with one of those instinctive gestures too natural for the modern stage; for perfect naturalism borders upon farce.
We pronounce this the most nonsensical farce (with the exception perhaps of the one just alluded to) we were ever present at.
They were unmolested; having the power to prevent it they assuredly would not suffer themselves to undergo even the farce of prosecution.
As both sides are acquainted with the trick, the dismal farce of swearing is usually soon abandoned, in favor of an appeal to force.
Perhaps it was a solemn farce enacted by pranking existences that throng the shadows lying along the border of another world.
He could create all the farce and tragedy of his age over again, with creatures unborn to sin and creatures unborn to suffer.
If they were allowed to have their way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce.
A breezy and effective farce in which half a dozen bright girls can delight an audience with half an hour of innocent fun.
Still he remained obdurate, until a deputation of ladies waited upon him, to whom he gracefully yielded, and so brought the farce to an end.
It is not within the rail of the courtroom but within the pages of these sensational journals that justice is made a farce.
Finally, it may be noted that Napoleon, before entering upon hostilities, went through the time-honoured farce of making overtures of peace to Britain.
Melodramatic farce, with an abundance of action, is the only form of play which is not now a drug on the managerial market.
If there were no tragedy, there would be farce in the solemnity with which this pretense of free government is staged and managed.
It is resolved a preface shall be prefixed to the farce, in vindication of the nature and dignity of this new way of writing
"The Deeds of King David and Goliath," and a travesty, "Haman's Will and Death" also belong to the category of Purim farces.
If she had been young and pretty one might have endured the farce, but the woman was positively hideous, old, and wrinkled.
Comedies, tragedies, farces, and melodramas have been included; but the chief concern has been that each play should be good, dramatic art.
As it forsook the morality, it found itself wedded with farce or spectacle; or, perhaps more extensively, with history and romantic comedy.
It is curious, and not quite useless, to see how admirably such a poet can succeed in turning into farce the most lofty subject.
Arthur and Dig, once more completely reconciled, went through the farce of house tea that evening in the common room with considerable trepidation.
Then your government will become a farce, and your free institutions subject to the whims and caprices of unholy and unconscionable monopoly power.
For the sake of clearness it may be well to consider his comedy under four heads: farce, wit, satire, humor proper. Farce.
This farce was, in a few days, followed by the real tragedy; for the fatigue or exposure brought on fever, which terminated fatally.
"It is a cruel farce," she exclaimed, rising indignantly; "you pretend to help me, and you laboriously tell me things I already know."
He declared himself accordingly, without further preamble or preface, with high-sounding phrases culled from farces and comedies, magazines and college jests.
If, in cases of this description, election by the population is a farce, appointment by the local representative body is little less objectionable.
The parents, deluded by the play, offer everything only to make the business quickly secure; and the poor farce closes in mockery.
Surely the crowning farce of all: that had gone up easily to investigation with a blare of trumpets and a flare of news headlines.
My peril was superlative, and yet as I look back on the occasion, I can see that it overdid comedy and became pure farce.
The admixture of comedy, prone to become gross farce, the horrors and bloodshed, and the brutal and revolting themes were rightly abandoned.
From her right to the throne Charles had already ousted her by a really grotesque farce enacted in concert with his father.
If at least he had seen tragedy, not a poor, silly farce, the only noble thing in her life distorted to a wretched folly.
What a farce is the selection of the dainty, clever Maude Adams as the scapegoat for the anticipated failure that is certain to ensue!
Henry Carey, a musician by profession, played in the orchestra and also supplied the stage with ballad and burlesque farces and operas.
I say a farce, whether you regard the age of the acolyte or the indifferent proportion of water with which it would be performed.
It has much of the rapidity and vigor of a smartly written farce, with a pervading freshness a smartly written farce rarely possesses.
What if, after all?even though this universe be so poor a farce?the mad lovers and haters, the terrible prophets and artists, were right?
There are degrees of exaggeration, by which one passes through tragedy, comedy, farce, and burlesque; but in all there must be an exaggeration.
A good way is to send for one copy of several farces and pantomimes, then read and select what is best suited to your needs.
That is where the management of a matter that makes no appeal to the illiterate becomes a farce in the hands of such a body.
She might keep up the farce tolerably well before people; but when alone with herself and her misery, it was a senseless mockery.
The title of that farce is not altogether felicitous, because possibly suggestive of impropriety, but there is nothing mischievous in the fabric itself.
In sooth, is not the world divided into those who take the great cosmic drama seriously, and those who treat it as farce?
The streets were intolerably narrow, the paving a farce; pools of stagnant water stood in the depressions, piles of refuse banked the walls.
Before he had recovered the stun of this ominous farce, in obedience to the mandate, "Remove the prisoner," he was led from the dock.
The theme, you observe, is one that might excuse the wildest farce, since the effect of Iris upon her unfamiliar surroundings was naturally devastating.
For farce, after all, is farcical, and the mood for its appreciation is not one which is sympathetic to any great or moving thing.
Shakespeare's position on the stage was, however, maintained only with difficulty against the melodramas, musical farces, and spectacles that absorbed the theaters.
The first two quarters, and especially the first quarter, of the century contributed plentifully to the list of mysteries, moralities, and farces.
It is farce which drives the spectator breathlessly along the road of hilarity by means of a rapidly moving series of mechanically conceived situations.
Guizot saw all this farce with considerable vexation, mixed with disdain, but it could not take any other turn all circumstances considered.
Wherever they were tried they were violated, until even among the most unsophisticated of freight agents a rate agreement was looked upon as a farce.
One-act farces and genuine burlesques were then in vogue, and these, with tragedy or comedy, formed the day's rehearsal and the evening's bill.
A committee organized to protect the village common from encroachments developed into a roaring municipal farce which was repeated after every General Election.
Of all these farces, however, that entitled Inez Pereira, is distinguished by the most remarkable plot and the greatest stretch of dramatic talent.
Place the whites in hot water to heat them, then fill each one with the hot farce, rounding it to look like a whole yolk.
The idea of a yacht which endeavors the capture of a smuggler, and is herself made prize by him, is of course a motive for farce.
And to-day he had probably forgotten her, if he did not relate this audacious, comical and tender farce to his comrades over their cups.
"You would turn a farce into a tragedy," he says, mockingly, "Why should I bribe a servant to let me see an old room by midnight?"
He is sure to laugh and applaud in the wrong places, and so cause a disturbance which may be fatal to the success of your farce.
This solemnity appears rather a comedy or a farce than a church-ceremony, and is very unbecoming in a place so sacred as the holy Sepulcher.
All that he thought, at that hour, was even noble, though he could not clothe it otherwise than in the language of a brutal farce.
I was highly astonished at him that he could approve of an idea which is against all correct theory and is nothing but a farce.
Shall we then suppose them all impostors, and that they keep up the farce of a system, of which they do not believe a syllable?
They dramatize, even to painting the grave nod of the judge; and will work out a farce from a mere broken bargain about an ass!
She wanted to show little Fanny, for by that appellation we distinguished her eldest daughter, the Harlequin farce, before she returned to school.