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As designed by David Rockwell, it’s sumptuously drenched in Art Deco, a pristinely elegant background in amusing contrast to the farcically inelegant events that take place in it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

On top of that, SafeSport is farcically underfunded: It has just 30 employees to deal with 11 million American athletes.

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2022

"She apologized, by the way, a short while later because we produced the transcript which demonstrated her comments, her tweet, her letter were farcically stupid and wrong," he continued.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2021

They settled on a convenience store, but farcically it had closed while they argued about who should go in.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2017

Why is it that a play which begins seriously and for most of its course so develops, only to end farcically, or which begins lightly only to become tragic, leaves us dissatisfied?

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce