The English can be broadly farcically physical and nonsensical and also very understated and dry.
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Now, farcically, newspapers evoke the image of Britain "negotiating" Gibraltar's rights through the sights of a gunship.
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The building design is so farcically unchanged from his own Muscovite complex that his key fits into the lock.
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Then there are the…Read more ReadThe Bangladesh bank hack until now seemed like a farcically amusing comedy of errors.
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His being black makes his enthusiastic indifference all the more insulting to Alfred and therefore all the more farcically sad.
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Andrew Barker, Variety: It should come as no surprise that "Happytime" comes up farcically short as a metaphor for racism.
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Look at what happened during Super Bowl 20123, when SunnyD seriously-or-farcically posted a cry for help on Twitter.
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Whatever the culprit, the results pages — reloaded obsessively by campaigns and their supporters through the night — remained farcically bare as Monday slid into Tuesday.
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But this whole thing was farcically illegal—so remarkably over-the-top that it was almost impossible not to laugh at the sheer audacity.
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Most farcically Slick Rick, a British-born rapper, was once arrested for illegally deporting himself and illegally re-entering America after performing on a Caribbean Cruise.
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But the farcically chaotic first-act finale is allowed to be its usual bubbly self, and the sublime trio "Soave sia il vento" to be simply, sincerely beautiful.
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Let's not judge Magic Leap on this interesting public prototype — let us instead judge them on the farcically ostentatious promises and eye-popping funding of the last few years.
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Kamworor's race began farcically as he slipped over on the start line and was almost buried under a stampede of athletes before climbing back to his feet and carrying on.
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She curtly reminds her farcically conservative mother—whose campaign for the local parish council proudly announces that she supports "most Italians and gays"—that even the most unconventional families deserve acceptance.
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Farcically, when she finally came to trial in 2011, she was sentenced to a mere 18 weeks of house arrest and fined €1.5 million – considerably less than what she managed to pocket.
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Just ask Cecilia Giménez, the 21519-year-old amateur painter whose farcically botched attempt to restore an almost century-old fresco of Christ in her local church in Borja, Spain, propelled her to international infamy.
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Certainly, the opening minutes of the first act, set in an expensive Manhattan hotel room, directly evoke "Plaza Suite," Mr. Simon's Broadway hit from 1968 in which assorted couples farcically embody variations on marital disaffection.
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The new constitution, approved in a farcically circumscribed referendum, creates a National Assembly consisting of an appointed Senate with 250 members, to be picked by the generals, and an elected House of Representatives with 500 members.
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After all, in banning people like Jones, or even more farcically, Candace Owens, aren't these new media publishers trying to tell us that they can, do, and will take firm action against this sort of thing?
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So the two hole up in a Mexican café across from the station, run by a farcically dumb, chipper couple (played by America Ferrera and Raúl Castillo), and start faking increasingly histrionic news reports from a country they've never seen.
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A year ago, they all farcically marched for the abolition of the one flickering light of hope: The UN's International Commission Against Impunity, which has taken down criminal kingpins as high as the President in 85033 and has reportedly prevented 4,500 anticipated murders.
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An eighth grader, the eldest of three freckled, blond, almost farcically preppy brothers — Irish Catholic but still WASPier than the sons of Italians, Poles and Ukrainians who formed the backbone of the student body at our parochial school — he watched me dismount.
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The slender novel charts the mental breakdown of Ma Daode, a farcically corrupt provincial official who, when he is not busy arranging trysts with mistresses, is devising a "China Dream Device" that would help Mr. Xi's increasingly authoritarian government erase civilians' memories of the country's postrevolutionary past.
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As always, there are multiple reasons: Ms Nixon and Mr Williams never really expanded beyond their progressive bases; Mr Cuomo is a skilled, bare-knuckled campaign tactician (in the race's waning days a mailer, which Mr Cuomo barely managed to condemn, accused Ms Nixon of being an anti-Semite—a farcically scurrilous accusation against a candidate raising two Jewish children).
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I am a fan of the New England Patriots and like pretty much all Pats fans have an unshakeable belief that Goodell was farcically unfair to Tom Brady with his heavy-handed treatment of the quarterback's possibly being ''generally aware'' that a minuscule amount of air pressure might have been removed from the footballs he used in last year's A.F.C. championship game — the so-called Deflategate scandal.
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As "Veep," which with eerie prescience has anticipated real-life political embarrassments in the United States and around the world, begins its fifth season on April 24, it finds President Meyer in ever more farcically frustrating territory: Stuck in an Electoral College tie with a rival candidate, she must continue to govern while she and her Oval Office colleagues try to steer a byzantine recount process in her favor.
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It contained some songs which denounced the corruptions in the king's palace and council farcically.
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Finding herself mistaken for Hollywood star Dorothy Kay (Constance Cummings), impoverished model Betty Smith (also Cummings) poses as the actress in a cracked scheme by newspaper heir (Frank Lawton) that goes farcically awry.
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His 2001 short story "The Robot and the Baby" farcically explored the question of whether robots should have (or simulate having) emotions, and anticipated aspects of Internet culture and social networking that have become increasingly prominent during ensuing decades.
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Unfortunately his relative freedom was quickly revoked because of his writing, in this case for the paper The Tasmanian.Quintus Servinton. Ed. Cecil Hadgraft (1830; Jacaranda, 1962), p. 18. Then, farcically, the suspension was suspended when it turned out to be a pretext for tarring the reputation of Governor Arthur.
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She frequents Cincinnatus' prison cell, and farcically promises to help him escape. This character is often credited as being the inspiration for Nabokov's Lolita, in his novel Lolita. ; Marthe : The wife of Cincinnatus. Unfaithful to her husband, she takes up sexual relations with Rodion and Rodrig, as well as several other lovers.
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Sportin' Life waltzes around selling "happy dust", but soon incurs the wrath of Maria, who threatens him. ("I hates yo' struttin' style"). A fraudulent lawyer, Frazier, arrives and farcically divorces Bess from Crown. When he discovers Bess and Crown were not married, he raises his price from a dollar to a dollar and a half.
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Wells found the trial so farcically biased that he penned a satirical play based on the proceedings entitled The Colonel and His Friends, a work published as a pamphlet.Willis, Unemployed Citizens of Seattle, pg. 92. In 1913 Wells was chosen as the state chairman of the Socialist Party of Washington, the state affiliate of the Socialist Party of America.
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Due to BBC Local Radio cuts the Christos show will end after 2012. 2009 and 2010 saw him perform at BBC Proms concerts which were broadcast live on BBC Television via the Red Button During 2011 Christos appeared fleetingly with Jenny Williams on Britain's Got Talent, their performance being farcically interrupted when a dog strayed on to the stage.
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Artemisia is in love with her tutor Trespolo but he is too dull-witted to realise this and is in love with the serving-maid Despina instead. Two brothers, Ciro and Nino, are in love with Artemisia; one of them goes mad and the other, who has been insane, is cured. The plot becomes more and more farcically complicated until, in the end, Trespolo marries Despina and Artemisia marries Ciro.
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In the mythical European country of Ardenberg, General Dittling (Leon M. Lion) stages a military coup. His supporters believe that he will set up a republic but it is actually his desire to restore the monarchy. Therefore, he persuades British businessman Richard Dexter (Tom Walls) to escort the Queen (Yvonne Arnaud) to the safety of England. Once there his relations with the Queen are farcically misconstrued, when his fiancée Lydia (Anne Gray) arrives unannounced.
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In the DVD commentary, writer/director Joss Whedon revealed that the main impetus for this episode was learning that Amy Acker danced ballet for fifteen years, although he also was excited to see the group dressed up. Whedon filmed a scene in which Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof dance in the ballet. The scene, which was ultimately cut, was a fantasy of Wesley's during the performance. In the scene, Amy Acker - who danced fifteen years - dances properly, while Alexis Denisof dances farcically.
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The story depicts Grosvenor as often frustrated by opponents who are too obtuse to fall for his ruse. Grosvenor's lifeless body is eventually found bludgeoned to death, his fingers broken, shortly after a bridge tournament in which he used his gambit against the wrong opponents. A subsequent article by Kit Woolsey in The Bridge World, titled The Grosvenor Gamble,July 1978, Volume 49, Number 10 extends the original idea, farcically expounded in the 1973 story, to possible at-the-table applications.
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Tansley's interest in science was sparked by one of his father's fellow volunteer- teachers, who was described as "an excellent and enthusiastic field botanist". After attending preparatory school from the ages of 12 to 15, he enrolled in Highgate School. Unhappy with the science teaching, which he considered "farcically inadequate", he switched to University College London in 1889 and studied at the faculty of Biological science, where he was heavily influenced by Ray Lankester and F. W. Oliver. In 1890 Tansley attended Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Furious that Jesús has foiled the group's element of surprise, Skip devises a new plan. Jesús, aching for reinstatement with the anti-Castro terrorist group he was expelled from, abandons Las Noches and sends a mail bomb to Al. Farcically, the bomb is instead opened by an over-eager Ricky, illegally sifting Garcia's mail for clues about the terrorists. Because of Bernal's poor construction, the bomb only injures Ricky. Al never learns that the bomb was addressed to him, and the bombing is attributed to Las Noches.
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Miss Lawrence and the screenplay make her a farcically exaggerated shrew with the zeal of a burlesque comedian to see her diffident daughter wed . . . Furthermore, it must be mentioned that the Southern accent which Miss Lawrence affects is not only disturbingly erratic but it has an occasional Cockney strain. The character is sufficiently murky without this additional mystery. As much as we hate to say so, Miss Lawrence's performance does not compare with the tender and radiant creation of the late Laurette Taylor on the stage.
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The mermahuataur is a mythological creature created by graphic designer Jim Unwin and writer Dylan Carline. It first appeared in their Euler diagram of mythical creatures that achieved significant popularity as an internet meme and in 2009 appeared in print in London's Metro newspaper. The mermahuataur, based on the combinations given in the mythical creature diagram, is farcically described as being 'half human, half bull, half narwhal'. Since the publishing of the Euler diagram, the Mermahuataur has been imagined and drawn by various artists and designers.
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Upside Down presents the relationship between developed (or “first world”) and developing (or “third world”) nations, illuminating the influences of the colonizer over the colonized. Seeing life as "upside down" becomes the central metaphor for looking at experiences throughout the book. Galeano’s epigraph clues the reader into this by farcically posturing Al Capone, as an authority on honor, law, and virtue. It is frightening that Capone delivers a truthful message about the realistic and corrupt state of affairs, given the business he works in.
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Granville cut the clownish Gobbos in line with neoclassical decorum; he added a jail scene between Shylock and Antonio, and a more extended scene of toasting at a banquet scene. Thomas Doggett was Shylock, playing the role comically, perhaps even farcically. Rowe expressed doubts about this interpretation as early as 1709; Doggett's success in the role meant that later productions would feature the troupe clown as Shylock. In 1741, Charles Macklin returned to the original text in a very successful production at Drury Lane, paving the way for Edmund Kean seventy years later (see below).
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 71% approval rating based on 73 reviews, with an average score of 6.36/10 and the consensus: "A clever, funny slice of alternate history, Dick farcically re-imagines the Watergate era and largely succeeds, thanks to quirky, winning performances from Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst and Will Ferrell". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 65 out of 100 based on reviews from 21 critics. Leonard Maltin gave the film three stars, calling it a "clever cross of Clueless and All the President’s Men".Maltin, Leonard, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.
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There were rumors, never substantiated, that Benjamin was impotent and that Natalie was unfaithful. Benjamin's troubled married life has led to speculation that he was gay. Daniel Brook, in a 2012 article about Benjamin, suggests that early biographies read as though "historians are presenting him as an almost farcically stereotypical gay man and yet wear such impervious heteronormative blinders that they themselves know not what they write". These conjectures were not given scholarly weight until 2001, when in an introduction to a reprinting of Meade's biography of Benjamin, Civil War historian William C. Davis acknowledged "cloaked suggestions that he [Benjamin] was a homosexual".
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Lawrence's best-known American film role was that of Amanda Wingfield, the overbearing mother in The Glass Menagerie (1950), which both Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead had sought. The role required her to wear padding and affect a Southern American accent, and friends and critics questioned her decision to accept it. Tennessee Williams, who had written the play, thought casting Lawrence was "a dismal error" and, after the film's release, called it the worst adaptation of his work he had seen thus far. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called her Amanda "a farcically exaggerated shrew with the zeal of a burlesque comedienne" and "a perfect imitation of a nervous Mama in domestic comedy".
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Robert Hall used "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" as an example of a Wodehouse short story where the romantic element is only a minor part of the story and treated farcically, as in Gandle's interrupted proposal of marriage to Bobbie Wickham, in contrast to stories in which romance plays a larger role or is not involved at all. The other example Hall gave of a short story similar to "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure" in this respect was "Uncle Fred Flits By".Hall (1974), pp. 12–13. In "Mr Potter Takes a Rest Cure", the pompous politician Clifford Gandle exaggerates the neutral vowel which has replaced r at the end of words such as "desire", "here", and "there" in south-east British English.
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With the ears of a wider audience in the 1980s, Baldwin developed an incisive critique of the American automobile industry, which he viewed as over-focused on superficial marketing concerns and farcically under-concerned with real innovation and improvement. He was also a constructive critic of the emerging industries manufacturing "soft technology" equipment like wind turbines. In the late 1990s, he worked with the Rocky Mountain Institute of Snowmass, Colorado in the research, design, and development of the ultralight, ultra-efficient "Hypercar" — a prototype by way of which independent designers hope to show the way for the world's auto manufacturers. With conceptual development having begun in 1991, the current version of the Hypercar uses a small generator to power an electric motor in each wheel.
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The Merry Frolics of Satan is strongly influenced by the legend of Faust, but maintains the modernized comic tone of the féeries. It involves numerous recurring themes in Méliès's work, such as a pact with the Devil, a celestial voyage, and a final triumphant scene in Hell; indeed, the end of the film strongly resembles Méliès's earlier The Damnation of Faust, complete with its detailed scenery and bat-winged demons. The farcically choreographed kitchen scene, the hectic pacing of which recalls Méliès's The Cook in Trouble (1904), faithfully reproduces the set and stage machinery that had been traditionally used for the equivalent scene in Les Pilules du diable ever since 1839. The film was made primarily in Méliès's studio, with the outdoor scenes in the Italian village filmed just outside it, in the garden of the Méliès family property in Montreuil-sous-Bois.
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More recently LGBT critics have prized the tale for its portrayal of lesbianism, centuries before the Class S genre, although Gregory Pflugfelder does not see the tale as being "lesbian", as he finds it problematic to apply modern labels to older texts. Torikaebaya has been described as a "sensationalist", "sprightly" and entertaining tale, but to Willig and Gatten, it is questionable as to whether the tale is intended as a farce, as during the period such issues were considered very grave and the results of bad karma in a former life. Gatten believes the tale to begin farcically, but says the characters grow out of their initial stereotypes to gain enough "psychological depth" to solve their difficulties, and the tale becomes a "realistic treatment of Heian sexual roles". Rohlich says that Torikaebaya is "clearly not meant to be comic", despite the plot deriving largely from "ironic misunderstandings" about the switch, "all else" in the tale, such as the relationships and the pursuits are "familiar stock-in-trade" from the monogatari genre.
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