JZ's appearance at the State Capture Inquiry played out in almost farcical circumstances.

The military defence of Ireland is almost farcical.

To others there might have seemed something humorous in the situation-inits almost farcical complications and misunderstandings.

A comedy situation, yes, and at this distance almost farcical-butfor certain elements in it approaching tragedy.

There was something highly diverting about this grim lawyer, with his dry contentiousness and almost farcical caution.

So profoundly unimportant to them is their social identity, that they bandy it about with almost farcical freedom.

Transcripts of the "oath-taking" ceremony are almost farcical.

War is bestial, they hold, war is devilish; in its presence it is absurd, almost farcical, to talk about morality.

Even now the State Secretary is doing things which would be almost farcical if the times were not so serious.

Far away from the sound of Commodore Preble's guns a strange, almost farcical, intervention in the Tripolitan War was preparing.

At half-past, his absorption in an evening paper, over the top of which he looked at every newcomer, was almost farcical.

By this time their supporting artillery would have been identified and attained, and the whole attack reduced to almost farcical conditions.

Both men realized that the situation was almost farcical, almost like an opera-animpassioned husband battles his in-lawsto reclaim his wife.

It's an almost farcical understatement that does not begin to account for the number of trips he says he organises in the same period.

Prolific marksmen Christian Benteke made only his second start since March but he drew a blank as Villa's inability to score became almost farcical.

Mr Guy Verhofstadt was exasperated on Saturday evening as the Laeken summit ended in an almost farcical squabble over the siting of new European agencies.