farce
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1. farce - Noun
2. farce - Verb
Meaning
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
To render fat.
To swell out; to render pompous.
Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
History always repeats itself twice first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.
Life is a farce.