|
Перевод: farcical
[прилагательное] фарсовый; шуточный; балаганный; смехотворный; нелепый
Тезаурус:
- The story of the operation, in all its farcical mystery, was best told by the officers and crew of the CIA proprietary airline called in to help on November 22nd.
- THE CASE of World Athletics versus All Credibitity has now reached such a pitch of mealy-mouthed, farcical dithering that some of us in the public gallery are considering leaping into the well of the court and making a noisy scene.
- To give the farcical complications a kick-start, Poiret asks us to believe that a man, finding himself in this predicament, would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage, and that the girl, required to account for her surprise visit, would blurt out that she was pregnant.
- A woman seeks the truth of her ancestry, and discovers truth can be what you want it to be; in a hospital a neglected old man weaves fables in a lost language; fantasy becomes reality when a young boy's sense of wonder is awakened by the first man in space; a man's obsession with "the dogs" has grim but farcical consequences; a couple's holiday in France is disturbed by the ghosts of war; a chance encounter brings an unexpected delight to a birdwatcher.
- Emo has been billed as the Protestant's Woody Allen, a comic adept at hyping neurosis into farcical absurdity, but he's actually more lunatic than that, the result of a cerebral head-on collision between Groucho Marx and Tex Avery.
- Everything about this torpidly told tale rings loud, false and farcical.
- "A farcical, objectless ceremony" is how Canon Atkinson described, in his Memorials of Old Whitby (1894), an event taking place on the eve of Ascension Day.
- Mr David Todd, secretary of the wheelchair racing association, said the limit was "farcical".
- Ridiculous tribal codes such as hierarchies and power struggles will seem farcical to you, because you will have passed beyond the point where you need them to exist successfully .
- In it he recounted the farcical activities of a couple who wished to divorce but were unable to do so unless one partner committed, or pretended to commit, an act of adultery.
- The action is farcical but the wit and the brilliant dialogue contain a highly intelligent, though good-natured (and far from earnest), satire of Victorian Society as embodied chiefly in the overbearing Lady Bracknell, Wilde's greatest comic creation.
- Quite farcical.
- Italy had a profound and sometimes farcical effect on the way he managed Rangers.
|
|
|