How to Use farce in a Sentence

farce

noun
  • For most of the book, the farce felt too far from Earth for Zink to land it.
    Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • In the right hands, the gap between tragedy and farce can be razor-thin.
    The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The farce of it all is that Thomas really did not need Crow to pay for the tuition.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
  • And any notion that the pandemic’s end will mark the end of smushing is a farce.
    Zak Jason, Wired, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The genre and the farce approach, the satire, are probably the only ways to face someone like Pinochet.
    Vulture, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The play does move between farce and caretaking and rage.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2022
  • In farce timing is everything, from the right look of anguish to the rhythm of the slamming doors.
    Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The farce will arrive in the inevitable attempts to turn this all into, yes, a movie.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The brisk plot smoothly stays on point while Holmes adds bits of farce, quirky characters and a style and sense of place that evoke the 1950s.
    Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In this ongoing farce, even the straight men are funny.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
  • What is deeply unfunny about the whole thing is that Democrats could end this farce at any time and have not yet done so.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The scripts were clever, and written for adults, but then the writers could also pull off ebullient farce.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Cotta has a face fit for farce, with puzzled, wide eyes that Abrantes takes great pleasure in pulling the wool over.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The notion of quantum crypto-agility is, in essence, a farce.
    Kevin Bocek, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Young as the pageant contestant gets to gnaw most of the scenery, and in the context of this farce some gnawing is permitted.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In his videos, Mr. de Hek treats all of these and other twists in the Hyper plot with a light touch, one befitting a farce.
    David Segal, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • For Sheehan, though, the farce is the deception itself.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The entire affair was a farce, a joke for Flynt’s amusement.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • These cacophonous tones remind us that the real world, too, can be a ghastly farce.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The neo-screwball farce follows a group of friends who become involved in the murder of a senator in the 1930s.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
  • What’s the challenge of writing a farce like this and capturing that dynamic on the page?
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Lakewood Theatre kicks off the new year with a quick-witted farce by C.S. Whitcomb.
    oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The fourth episode turns on a dinnertime farce about six people, most of whom have slept together, some of whom are the same whom.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2022
  • The Bubble, switching things up however, is a full-on farce.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Hong gives a fine enough performance, but lacks the tricky gift for farce that would have made her performance more comedic.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The old Karl Marx line is that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For most of the last century, elections in Mexico were a farce.
    Kate Linthicumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Perhaps a bit of bedroom farce around men wearing a woman’s trousers?
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The farce works because, as Everett’s work has often shown, race itself is something of a farce.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The farce of big-time college football: Oregon has 21 players who came in through the transfer portal.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022

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