"The most farcical lineup the majors ever had known," said writer Al Stump.
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Obama's animosity to the Second Amendment spurred some of his most farcical whoppers.
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The most farcical aspect of this system was it favored underwhelming white male candidates.
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Of all the descriptions of Mr. Trump we've heard this election season, this may be the most farcical.
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Laughter is inherently violent as well as potentially soothing, and the most farcical aspects of Jojo's world are also the most terrifying.
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He was involved in one of the most farcical scenes in the race's history after being knocked off his bike when he, Richie Porte and Bauke Mollema crashed into the back of a camera motorbike.
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Though the Tropic Thunder star, 41, who plays Franco's unreliable dealer, was shot multiple times, drove through a barn, and had his car explode, his persistent survival became one of the film's most farcical concepts—and was incidentally not planned.
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Editorial After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students' skirt lengths, France's perennial problem with Muslim women's attire has taken its most farcical turn yet with a new controversy over the "burkini," body-covering swimwear whose name is an amalgam of burqa and bikini.
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And the show doing that with the most farcical tang, at the moment, is "Atlanta," now in its first season on FX. The premise is otherwise sitcom standard: A Princeton dropout named Earn (Donald Glover) comes back home to Atlanta and tries to manage the rap career of his weed-dealer cousin, Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), and help raise a toddler with his baby mama, Van (Zazie Beetz).
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Broadway, featuring Stuart Robson and William H. Crane. The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is, along with The Tempest, one of only two Shakespearean plays to observe the Aristotelian principle of unity of time—that is, that the events of a play should occur over 24 hours.
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In April 2013 the Football Association announced that, as part of an FA WSL restructure and expansion, Manchester City would replace Doncaster Rovers Belles in the top tier in 2014. The Belles were placed in a new ten team FA WSL 2. Buckley described the situation as "the most farcical thing I've ever heard," while vice-chairman Alan Smart publicly ridiculed the FA for relegating the club after one league match, rendering the 2013 season meaningless. The club appealed the decision and had the support of rival clubs.
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Indeed, Union Army Lt. Charles B. Haydon supposedly fell asleep during the artillery fight. On both the left and right flanks, several of the batteries that did engage lasted no more than minutes before being rendered incapable of fire. Moreover, in a failure of command that, according to historian Thomas M. Settles, must ultimately be placed on Lee's shoulders, the movements of the two flanks were never coordinated with each other. D. H. Hill found the failure of the Confederate artillery discouraging and later dismissed the barrage as "most farcical".
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The State alleged that holding the Congress of the People and adopting the Freedom Charter constituted steps towards the establishment of a communist state and the prelude to revolution. They aimed to show that speeches and writings by the accused were communistic. Probably the most farcical event in the trial occurred when expert witness for the prosecution, Prof. A.H. Murray of the University of Cape Town, gave evidence on the nature of communism and the infallible clues that he claimed indicated certain statements and speeches were communistic or communist inspired.
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