It has been noted that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce.
It raises a much larger question than the merits of an insignificant version of a loose French farce.
Ricardo Alarcón, head of Cuba’s parliament, called the trial a “stupid and shameful farce” because of limits on the evidence presented to the jury.
The decree transformed a farce into yet another example of Mr Berlusconi's contempt for the rule of law, of a piece with a new draft law to allow ministers to delay criminal trials against them.
DEFENCE procurement in India has a big element of farce.
[font=Times New Roman][color=#000000]DEFENCE procurement in India has a big element of farce.
The North Korean National Defense Commission described the findings of the international team co-led by South Korea as a "fabrication" and a "farce."
This week’s farce involved the saffron-clad Baba Ramdev, whose wealth, popularity on television and delusions of political grandeur led him to call a fast to the death in Delhi at the weekend.
Under Vladimir Putin history has repeated itself as farce.
Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States.
A CIRCUS, a farce, a tragedy, or a thriller with an increasingly sinister plot: depending where you stand, Polish politics can look like any or all of these.
"It degenerated into such a farce it looked like a 'Saturday Night Live' skit," Kuhn said.
Keeping track of these time shifts takes concentration, since theauthor will sometimes deliberately blur the line between war as grand drama andwar as farce.
I wonder if it was intended to be a farce.
"The online petition to repudiate traditional Chinese medicine is a farce," said a spokesman for the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine.
The farc called the move a "farce". Even more farcically, Mr Granda protested against his own release.
Black humor is often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce.
You are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
It continues ever onwards into farce.
In April the first Iraqi Airways flight from Baghdad to London for 20 years ended in farce as lawyers acting for Kuwait tried to impound the aircraft on arrival.
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