The audience realized that the play was a farce after the second act. From LearnThat.org.
The French word farce is derived from farcir, going back to the Latin farcire which meant "to stuff.". From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
The AWB on Monday said it would refuse to take part in what it called the farce of the Tebbutt Commission. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Some call it farce, some like it the best of my comedies. From Wordnik.com. [Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography] Reference
This campaign has been nothing but a farce from the get-go. From Wordnik.com. [Three more superdelegates for Obama] Reference
This was a career-aborting farce from a no-talent screecher. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Lambert on his AMA vocals ('kind of a mess'), Elisabeth Hasselbeck ('we're very different'), and CBS' subtle message ('homosexuality is dangerous') | EW.com] Reference
This has been a legal farce from the beginning to the bitter end. From Wordnik.com. [What The Thunder Said | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
The global warming farce is hardly unanimous in the scientific community. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Patrick Michaels is not actually our state climatologist.] Reference
If Lee had spelled the word farce with a "c," there would have been a battle royal. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2] Reference
The attempts of the PC constituency to reduce our courts to a farce is superfluous. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-09] Reference
As the hero of romance, a man may be brawny; but except in farce, he may not yet be fat. From Wordnik.com. [Stylish Stouts] Reference
This farce is more about NOT INCLUDING CITIZENS of Florida and Michigan than the black/white thing. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'] Reference
AVLS - my answer in my farce is - dont switch on the car airwave set - it has to be on for them to track it. From Wordnik.com. [Ground Control To Major Tom. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
On another note - our farce is running not one, but TWO diversity/homophobia/gender issue courses next week. From Wordnik.com. [Metropolitan Police Ban Inspector Gadget? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
The tragedy of this farce is that this could be the last time a two-state solution is seen as a viable option. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven] Reference
Maybe people are starting to wake up and realize that this farce is economically not feasible and unsustainable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent] Reference
The two-faced behavior that our politicians have displayed during this entire farce is nothing short of DISGUSTING. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson reviewing new abortion language] Reference
Now the farce is just a self serving statistical (cooking the books) mess. on July 17, 2008 at 4: 05 pm | Reply bobby. From Wordnik.com. [When The Feeling’s Right, Now. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Observer noted how Spitzer once called the LMDC a "farce" -- until he put his own appointees in place. From Wordnik.com. [Gothamist] Reference
KASEY KID: Oh it was brilliant - a brilliant farce, that is!. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
My farce is still counting detections only they are calling it SDR’s. From Wordnik.com. [Satisfied? Confident? You Will Be…… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Like Pla'in 'in all her farce is a grain of sand on Boom-Boom's beach, "Enough". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
The Richmond theatre has managed to restore Charles Spencer's faith in French farce. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
My farce is re branding it’s NPT. on October 12, 2009 at 5: 03 pm Officer and a lady. From Wordnik.com. [Names Will Never Hurt You « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Now, all we need to complete the farce is a noble peace prize for Assad, or maybe Ahmadinejad. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Person of the Year.] Reference
Miss Anne, to hear the rehearsal of Mrs. Clive's new farce, which is very droll, with pretty music. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
Another part of the farce is the systems that are being devised to deal with carbon gas reductions. From Wordnik.com. [The Global Warming Farce] Reference
If I stand at the bar of this court, and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice!. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches from the Dock, Part I] Reference
Cobham; and puzzling James Croft, and other Englishmen, actually believing that the farce was a solemn reality. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Besides, my child, in this place, what our libertine friend here would call the farce of parental wisdom is dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Act III] Reference
House, Lowe said the process was a "farce", to which. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Falae denounced the elections as a "farce" but, asked by AFP in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
China's foreign ministry called the charges a "farce" born of "Cold War thinking.". From Wordnik.com. [All Quiet on the Fed Front] Reference
It was the sort of farce which is advertised in “school entertainment” catalogues as. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
This kind of farce so much pleased my master, that he made me repeat it as often as he found opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Even the Seattle Times was moved to editorialize that the Lowney deposition was a "farce" and "baldly political.". From Wordnik.com. [A Washington State Smear Campaign] Reference
In 2005, the Washington Post editorial board called Bush's budget proposal a "farce" for using accounting tricks. From Wordnik.com. [The Progress Report: The Bush Deficit] Reference
Instead of fulfilling President Clinton's vision, NAFTA could become just the opposite: a "farce" for social progress. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Fleischli: NAFTA's Dimming Light] Reference
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