Quotes About Farcical

One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.

Algo similar ocurre con líderes populistas que pretenden encarnar a grandes personajes de la historia, como a Simón Bolívar o a Benito Juárez. No son más que una farsa que repite grandes acontecimientos en forma grotesca. Muchas veces la repetición ocurre como una bufonada desastrosa. Es lo que ocurrió en Venezuela con Hugo Chávez y lo que está pasando en México con López Obrador.

I would love, love, love to do a comedy like 'Gentleman's Guide,' something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do something that hasn't been written yet: the story of Sidney Poitier. A lot of people tell me that I look like him.

Instead of drugs, entire skeletons were being flushed down the john. A lion had escaped from the zoo and been eaten by a child. An old guy had blinded a traffic cop by spitting out a gallstone. A plane had crash-landed on a porn theatre, killing hundreds of lawyers. This very day Beerlight was host to a snipers' convention.

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.

I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.

The Fourth Crusade was an epic clusterfuck a comic-opera misadventure a tragic saga with farcical elements.

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.

Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the manias of lust.

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know, unless you happen to be an especially gifted student, in which case it prepares you for a career teaching the academic study of literature—it is, in other words, a rather farcical system that exists solely to replicate itself and yet manages to fail more than 95 percent of the time. Still, it's harmless, and can even have a certain marginal value.