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There is a brazen, often hilarious farcicality about it all.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within six days of the crisis' resolution, its farcicality became obvious when Iraq contemptuously refused to turn over promised documents to the U.N. inspectors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chekhov's humor contains a deep-flowing Slavic melancholy together with a riotous farcicality.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best example of such farcicality occurs in the eighth circle, fifth bolgia, where officials, traffickers in public offices, or unjust stewards are immersed in boiling pitch.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)

They appeared to put the farcicality altogether aside, and to have been much impressed by the character of the music.

From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William