This blending of true elegance with broad farce is a novelty in modern literature.
Immediately after the conclusion of this curious treaty, the emperor made a peaceful march to the Holy City with a few attendants, and performed the solemn farce of crowning himself in the church of the Resurrection.
Sheffield talked with the Goels of Brederoo's Farce of the Cow, and of some tragedy by Vondel.
Many of the older folk were content to stand or sit and watch a set of morris dancers, or filled the booth where a company of strolling players performed a blood-curdling tragedy and a side-splitting farce well within the hour.
And I that the farce will not last long; you saw I was very busy.
Not all that the wittiest men of his time could say, nor aught that comedy or farce could produce on the stage, was ever known to call up more than a smile on his iron-bound countenance.
It was the mad story of Pierrot, married to one woman and wishing to marry another; a farce intermingled with passion, which had been unearthed by a playwright, with the help of a poet, from a collection of old comic plays.
They have a Shah, tis true; but it is a farce to call him by that title.
What a farce was this considered as a fulfilment of the solemn assurances given in October, 1905!
In a brilliant and caustic criticism of conditions as they existed in the pre-Bolshevist period, Trotzky denounced what he called "the farce of dual authority.
But, with the appearance of the mime and the farce in the first century before our era, women began to take part in theatrical and musical performances.
At one time a British officer wrote a farce entitled, "The Blockade of Boston," to be played on a given evening.
The farce turned out to be tragedy, and the curtain fell upon the scene.
The theatre was filled to overflowing on the night the farce was announced.
A politician: from a character of that name in the farce of the Upholsterer.
An effeminate fop; a name borrowed from a celebrated character of that kind, in the farce of Miss in her Teens, written by Mr. Garrick.
Therefore thin nourishment of farce ye choose, Decoctions of a barley-water Muse: A meal of tragedy would make ye sick, Unless it were a very tender chick.
Those nauseous harlequins in farce may pass; But there goes more to a substantial ass: Something of man must be exposed to view, That, gallants, they may more resemble you.
Well, let him go; 'tis yet too early day, To get himself a place in farce or play.
I can choose my own King Popinjay, and play what farce or tragedy I may with him: but he who is to be my Ruler, whose will is to be higher than my will, was chosen for me in Heaven.
Thus having furbish'd up a parson, Dame Baucis next they play'd theirfarce on.
Second, if the farce of the Berlin Act is to be gone on with, it will be really necessary to moderate among our five Sovereigns--six if we are to count poor Malietoa, who represents to the life the character of the Hare and Many Friends.
This connubial farce ended by Miot begging pardon of his wife and her gallant; the former of whom, after much entreaty by Joseph, at last consented to share with him her bed.
They were unmolested; having the power to prevent it they assuredly would not suffer themselves to undergo even the farce of prosecution.
But it was a customary part of the farce of these investigating bodies to proceed with a childlike assumption of entire innocence.
It was here the children gathered, and the miserable farce of the examination began.
Well content, he went to a theatre where a farce was playing, sat through the performance and, going back again to his club after the performance, had a late supper in the grill.
And yet the absurd farce is kept up, in ninety and nine cases out of a hundred, because custom sanctions it--as though the sanction of custom were necessary when two people wish to be harmlessly happy in their own way.
A few moments later little knots of the play-goers passed him, still laughing with remembrance of the farce they had been witnessing.
I tell you what it is, I'll teach you two boys how to write a realfarce before I've done with you!
Paris has a sovereign gayety; but the gayety is lightning, and its farce holds a sceptre.
Grantaire hummed, dose to Grantaire, at an almost silent table, a quire of paper, an inkstand, and a pen between two small glasses announced that a farce was being sketched out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "farce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
