Am I such a farcical bungler, Watson, that I should erect an obvious dummy and expect that some of the sharpest men in Europe would be deceived by it?
This is a farcical waste of time, but still, if nothing else will satisfy you, it shall be done.
Bruce's Company appeared at Norwich Theatre, in the farcical comedy, "The Guv'nor.
The farcical comedy, "Pink Dominoes," was produced at Norwich Theatre by a company under the management of Mr. S.
But in a later adventure, so he told me, thefarcical part was left out.
Taking into consideration the really dangerous position of the little band, there was a tragic-farcical touch in their list of arms.
She made no effort to conceal the imp of humour that tugged at the corners of her mouth; this flickering of a smile and the dancing of her eyes made farcical the sober decorum of her speech.
In great cities man has driven the Presence far from him by his silly rackets of steam and electricity, by his farcical reproductions of cliffs and pinnacles.
As for the Lieutenant he is quite charming; and even the ultra-farcical episode of his falling in love with the king owing to a philtre is well carried off.
Here we have the abstractions of the old Morality; there the farcical gossip of the Gammer Gurton's Needle class; elsewhere the pale and dignified personages of Gorboduc: all three being often jumbled together all in one play.
Boys are like monkeys," remarked Adrian, at the close of his explosions, "the gravest actors of farcical nonsense that the world possesses.
But this loyalty to ideal perception denotes, as it seem to us, that even in farcical abandon his delineations were shaped and governed by his artistic sense.
In the extravagance of farcical abandon no one ever was funny as he.
What does it matter if to some it recalls a few farcical comedies all excellent material?
And the farcical allegory of an attempt to make Old Tom and Old Abe embrace to the glory of the illogical Anglo-Saxon language is but a symbol of something that is always being attempted, and always attempted in vain.
He does not especially think he has risen at all; he knows he has descended (though with delight, like one diving or sliding down the banisters) to something flat and farcical and full of the English taste for the bathos.
With the idea of being international, with the idea of being imperial, comes the frantic and farcical idea of being impartial.
To read some of the complaints, one would fancy that Dickens had deliberately invented a low and farcical America to be a contrast to his high and exalted England.
Le Dissipateur, Le Tambour Nocturne, L'Obstacle Imprevu have also much merit; and if La Fausse Agnes has something of the farcical in it, it is farce of the right kind.
Instances such as this abound in the mysteries, which are sometimes avowedly interrupted in order that the audience may be diverted by a farcical interlude.
Both in them and in the mysteries the curious mixture of pathos and solemnity on the one side, with farcical ribaldry on the other, which is characteristic of mediaeval times, early becomes apparent.
The thing would be farcical if it were not that tragedy hangs on the thread of it, and that a life, a useful human life, was destroyed by means of it.
Apparently he enjoyed himself, too, for he laughed as boisterously as any of them over the farcical tale, and would not go home until he had heard the end of it.
Some of these were satirical verses, somefarcical plays, others letters to newspapers.
During the whole period of my stay in England I was mixed up in a farcical comedy which I had to play out from start to finish.
There is a novel mixture of sentiment, caricature, and farcical incident in this piece.
She herself occasionally remodelled an old play, but did not improve it; while, when she trusted to herself, at least in a farcical sort of comedy, she was bustling and humorous.
Delightful work may be produced under burlesque and farcical conditions, and in work of this kind the artist in England is allowed very great freedom.
She was firmly convinced that Central High should support no such farcical production as "The Rose Garden.
When the girls themselves got a chance to talk it was shown that their desires were all for a parlor comedy with bright lines, some farcical turns to the plot, but a play of sufficient weight to gain the approval of sober-minded people.
