How To Use Ludicrous In A Sentence
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Revenge is a by-the-book sequel, crowbarring in all of the memorable features of the first movie, spicing them up with even more ludicrous ultra violence and adding a few new twists to the tale.
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The receipts from his shows have long since moved from the realms of the fantastic into those of the ludicrous.
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It's ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible.
The Sun
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I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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To only study one period in history and say that should be studied is ludicrous.
Virginia governor declares April as Confederate History Month
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However, at one ludicrous point she starts babbling about how her face has changed!
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A suitable ‘expectation’ of Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician
The Symposium
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Wages are pinned to the floor, housing costs are ludicrous and student debts linger for decades.
Times, Sunday Times
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Less talked about is the way fame can make virtually all aspects of your life faintly ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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He scoffed: 'It seems a ludicrous waste of money.
The Sun
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This is plainly ludicrous, and if the transgressors don't learn their lesson soon, the rest of us will certainly appreciate the irony when they're surviving on their children's benefits.
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This charming paragraph illustrates the vitality of scandal, and at the same time shows how ludicrously rumor and tradition mistell stories in the face of evidence.
A Book About Lawyers
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For most of the non-golfing population the game is a ludicrous one played by middle-aged, middle-class men in questionable knitwear.
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That should be enough to stem our sometimes inexplicably ludicrous and potentially harmful libidinous urges.
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An eighth would be faintly ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was the rationale behind the ludicrous decision to cutback on these schemes?
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To perceive this work as a subterfuge to secure funding for political purposes is ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence, the previous superpower demonologies now appear incongruous, if not ludicrous, when occasionally applied to their nuclear foes.
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If the claim to ‘reform’ is grossly inflated, the opposing claim to defend ‘free speech’ is even more ludicrous.
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However, as the temporal fenestra expands to ludicrous proportions in the cynodonts, the skull table is reduced to a saggital crest formed by the parietal.
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Something ludicrous like 500?
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems ludicrous that they have been hung out to dry with such vituperation when in fact they are both dutifully fulfilling the only remaining important royal function there is.
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Last week he denounced the reports that he was educated in a madrasah as a 'ludicrous' smear.
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While this may seem like a harsh conclusion or a ludicrous one at that, it most definitely is not.
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What Jackson does so brilliantly is to capture the surrealism of family life with its impossible combination of adults forced to explain and impose standards of behaviour that collapse into ludicrousness under the stern eye and wild logic of your average four-year-old.
Seeing The Funny Side « Tales from the Reading Room
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Perhaps Selwyn might have been called a "wag" -- a name given to men who were more enterprising than successful in their humour, and which referred originally to mere ludicrous motion.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)
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It is ludicrous to suggest that I was driving under the influence of alcohol.
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The worst can look little short of ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think it's completely ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
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The earliest laughter did not arise from what we call the ludicrous, but from something apparently physical -- such as touch -- though it does not follow that it would never otherwise have existed at all, for, as the mind more fully developed itself, facial expressions would flow from superior and more numerous causes.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
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She's just awful in her role as the psychiatrist who ludicrously gets stuck in the precinct.
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She has turned it into an increasingly ludicrous set of insinuations, non sequiturs and delusions.
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When that wasn't enough, he then smothered the man in makeup, a cumbersome costume, and ludicrous prosthetics.
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This has, I have noted, involved some rather ludicrous distortions of evidence as well as grand extrapolations from limited bases of data.
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The majority of folks know bigotry when they see it, and this quarrel is pretty ludicrous from the get-go.
Sanford accused of smear campaign against Bauer
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'crowner's quest-law,' he is only parodying, and that closely, a scarcely less ludicrous judgment which had actually been pronounced, not long before, in the Court of Queen's Bench.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852
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Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and the ludicrous power of Fielding himself, one who was a perfect stranger to the subject must necessarily produce an unfavourable contrast.
The Talisman
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The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm.
A Traitor to Memory
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Ten years ago, the idea would have been faintly ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is not this not only agraphon but also alogon, not only unscriptural, but also unreasonable, yea, absurd and ludicrous?
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The ludicrous aspect of the organisation makes it particularly vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This has been the ludicrous thinking for far too long.
The Sun
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In the end, we started giggling, as each suggestion became increasingly ludicrous.
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They certainly would not mount that ludicrous defence for a Tory.
The Sun
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He told ludicrous stories about seeing empty bottles and litter piled ‘one meter deep’ along roadsides in America, illustrating our environmental slovenliness.
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Attempting to turn gays straight is no less ludicrous than attempting to turn straights gay.
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I could scarcely keep from laughing in his face, the whole thing was so ludicrous; but I managed to look my haughtiest, and sternest, and fiercest, while I superintended the deck-cleansing.
CHAPTER XLV
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After what The Economist called a "ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinksmanship," the markets continued to churn, and the angry young facing unemployment as high as 45.7 percent left the beach for the barricades in London and other cities in the UK.
Roger Fransecky: Help Wanted!
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Sadly, one suspects, neither they nor al-Fayed will be put off: instead we shall probably be treated to another ten or twenty years of yet more ludicrous theories about the crash and how the Inquest was nobbled etc. etc., each theory yet more wacko than the last.
You're Paying For This, So Enjoy It!
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What a shame about the ludicrous fake tans which gave them the appearance of well-ripened oranges.
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Mesenchyme -- "Connective tissue arising from multiple germ layers consisting of unspecialized cells" - does your name have a message for us as you seem to have achieved the above objective by connecting with SIn and the ludicrous messages of hatred he brings here on a regular basis, perhaps seen as lobbying by you? phil
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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He scoffed: 'It seems a ludicrous waste of money.
The Sun
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As soon as you read the official explanations, you just know something ludicrous has taken place.
Times, Sunday Times
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We need to put an end to this ludicrous situation.
The Sun
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Each week teams would have to carry out vaguely ludicrous tasks under the tuition of Glenn Reynolds.
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The former was dressed in "a parti-colored dress, including a cowl, which ended in a cock's-head, and was winged with a couple of long ears; he, moreover, carried in his hand a stick called his bauble, terminating either in an inflated bladder or some other ludicrous object, to be employed in slapping inadvertent neighbors.
Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
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He wore a pair of long pantaloons that, unfortunately for his symmetry, adhered to his legs and thighs as closely as the skin; and as the aforesaid legs and thighs were skeletonic, nothing could be more ludicrous than his appearance in them.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
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The euro is "ludicrously" high for many of the struggling European countries such as Greece, but it is even too high for Germany, which is a competitive country.
British Blogs
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The problem is that the violence does seem gratuitous, ludicrous lurches at the ends of acts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scene is a ludicrously expensive suite at Salford's Lowry Hotel, the kind of place record companies only book bands into after they've sold squillions of records, like New Order.
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It is also ludicrous to suggest - as has often been argued during this dispute - that doctors are undervalued.
Times, Sunday Times
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The keyboardist loomed like some kind of elder wizard, clad in ludicrously bright long coats.
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Some of the arguments put forward by the venal and greedy MPs as having acted within the law have been ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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And in a few years, they'll be utterly mundane, and it will seem ludicrous that anyone ever wrote articles about them, held conferences to discuss them.
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To describe this historical stance as somehow racially tinged is ludicrous or to suggest that people who feel that slavery is the only issue leading to civil war are correct ignores the very complexity that Webb is talking about.
Potential VP candidate addresses Confederacy views
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(Bellini is one of my favorites in this regard — how he can hang a theatrically effective musical flow on even his most ludicrous libretti.)
Pretty Woman
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He has been allowed such a long leash and with a ludicrously large pay packet, he must feel invincible.
The Sun
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Today spinster suggests a rejected, dried-up "old maid," so much so that some single women are driven to adopt the ludicrous term bachelor girl to describe their status.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
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To have a situation where the law can be subverted so easily is ludicrous.
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At the same time, the slow and sonorous solemnity with which, while he bent himself down, he addressed a little thick short-legged boy, contrasted with the boy's aukwardness and awe, could not but excite some ludicrous emotions [948].
Life Of Johnson
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Indeed Fifa, an organisation that brings new definition to the term complacency, has already turned a blind eye to the incident, dismissing Ahern's impassioned intervention as if it were material for a comedy sketch, a ludicrous idea.
The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
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No parking all day is totally out of order, ludicrous, and nonsensical.
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The union convinces its members that they are victims and that they don't earn a living wage, and that they need to be protected "from abuse of power by administrators". that statement makes me believe you were an Oregon teacher even less. and of course a teacher's union isn't perfect -- but using it as a straw man catch-all for academic ills is ludicrous.
High school dropout rate takes a leap (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Yet if nothing else, her predictably ludicrous but unexpectedly endearing determination to play schoolmarm during her celebrity striptease is enough to settle any remaining doubts about the validity of this woman's U.S. passport.
Calamity Jane
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Much of what she describes as feminine seemed ludicrously romanticized or frivolous to me: sunbathing, not being able to drive in reverse.
Freud’s Blind Spot
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I find it ludicrous that nothing has been done to protect passengers from fire.
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The ludicrous aspect of the organisation makes it particularly vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was ludicrous to suggest that the visit could be kept secret.
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One recipient said yesterday that the situation was ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea that the banking and financial system was "unregulated" is just ludicrous.
Gordon Brown's economic "genius" exposed
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Meanwhile the Olympic Torch, in another ludicrous piece of faux pageantry, is to be paraded across London next month, held aloft by a series of 'celebrities'.
Archive 2008-03-23
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On its own face their actions are ludicrous and the well-paid media honchos should be equally ashamed.
Michael Russnow: Should Anthony Weiner Resign for Lying?: If So, Lots More Congressmen Should Go for Their Lies and Deeds
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So to say that a single sentence in the 14th amendment operates as some sort of compressed zip file that clearly and lucidly by its terms overrides whatever in the Constitution appears to run afoul of more modern ideas of the political compact is ludicrous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings?
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The performers were not intolerable, and the piece, which was what they call a proverb (a fable constructed so as to give a ludicrous verification or contradiction to an old saying), was amusing.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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He brought him down the rails with a superb ride and at ludicrous odds.
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements.
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Moreover, in "Szomorú Napok" will be found some of Jókai's most original characters, notably, the ludicrous, if infinitely mischievous, political crotcheteer, "Numa Pompilius;" the drunken cantor, Michael Kordé, whose grotesque adventure in the dog-kennel is a true _Fantasiestück à la
The Day of Wrath
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The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions.
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I haven't even begun to talk about where he gets his funding or how ludicrously quick every puzzle is solved.
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As something of a London scholar I can assure you that the notion is as ludicrous as suggesting that the author of "White Fang" was a cross-dressing hermaphrodite who buried his sexual shame in manly exploits.
Essays
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He noticed that her arms were bare and the tank straps were so thin, for a second he had the ludicrous impression that she was topless.
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At the time the idea was totally ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Likewise, if you think it is ludicrous to call SSM a ‘right’…then you will tend to think of pro-SSM advocates as bigoted.
How is bigotry defined?
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As he ludicrously attempts to claim is widespread among New York hipsters, she is "deck."
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The charge that some letters of some signatures are printed rather than written is particularly ludicrous.
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Marcus Powell's ludicrously cross-gartered Malvolio seems not only to have abandoned his senses, but taken up golf.
Twelfth Night
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Aristophanes is raised by the ludicrous circumstance of his having the hiccough, which is appropriately cured by his substitute, the physician
Symposium
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There were suggestions, denounced as ludicrous by a raft of academic luminaries, that her research did not make the grade.
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Grier describes making the low-budget films, in which she often portrayed a tough but beautiful woman involved in a ludicrous plot, and also such noncommercial events as her 1974 night out with John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, and Peter Lawford, during which she was ejected from the Troubadour, an “in” spot at the time, though at least in the company of pop-culture royalty.
HW Pick: Foxy: My Life in Three Acts «
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His energy is used only for composing and for music - as well as the ludicrously generous amount of time he gives to his students.
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I had devoted no more than a footnote to Paul Buhle, who had ludicrously described Karl Kautsky, Louis Althusser, and Harry Pollitt as "cretinoid intellectuals of Europe.
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange
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Expecting Frenchmen to alter their pronunciation of a French name would be ludicrous.
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The southern states are loud in vehement threats of secession, if the republican candidate is elected; but their bluster is really lamentably ludicrous, for they are without money, without credit, without power, without character – in short, sans everything, but so many millions of slaves, sans good numbers of whom they would also be the very moment they cut themselves adrift from the protection of the North.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there.
Is Shakespeare Dead?
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It is little short of ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The colorization argument is ludicrous - colorization is the wholesale changing of a movie without the consent of its director.
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So to say that a single sentence in the 14th amendment operates as some sort of compressed zip file that clearly and lucidly by its terms overrides whatever in the Constitution appears to run afoul of more modern ideas of the political compact is ludicrous.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings?
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The premise is ludicrous enough that it may not occur in real life, but the blistering cold and general bossiness the baby had to face are relatable to the reader.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to use backstory effectively
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The plot sounds ludicrous, but the overwhelming power of Giselle is its capacity to evoke emotion and its ability to breach divides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, the ludicrous old trout is still around.
The Sun
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One recipient said yesterday that the situation was ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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I imagine Winthrop and myself in these respective roles and almost choke on my drink at the ludicrousness but strange verity of the thought.
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It is ludicrous to think our board would accept such a proposal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The groom was in the utmost alarm, both on his own account and on mine, but, in spite of this, so irresistibly had the sense of the ludicrous in this unhappy contretemps taken possession of his fancy, that he sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter, that might have wakened the Seven Sleepers.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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It brings to mind the ludicrous feud between Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams, who need their silly heads knocking together.
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In grammar, syntax, and metrical system Japanese shares nothing with English, and if one tries to obey the prosodic principles of Japanese, as some earlier translators did, the result is likely to be both verbose and ludicrous.
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To these ludicrous features was added an intense and seemingly inapposite pride in his native country.
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It is ludicrous to claim there isn't time.
Times, Sunday Times
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`I'm actually being ludicrously overgenerous ,' she sighed, `that's so typical of me.
BEHINDLINGS
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When Duncan starts moving forward and backward in time while psychic witches and warlocks control him, the show becomes ludicrous.
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It is ludicrous to argue that women should be regarded as victims in patriarchal, phallocentric America and must be wards of government.
A New Project for the Gender Police
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He'd removed that ludicrous hat and his sunglasses to catch some sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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This I regard as quite ludicrous, and factually so removed from reality as be laughable.
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The mode of opening one of her chapters, "I always bone my meat" (_bone_ being the slang word of the day for steal), occasioned much merriment among her friends, and such a look of ludicrous surprise and reprobation from Liston, when he read it, as I still remember.
Records of a Girlhood
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Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous; but when we put them in the mouth of Bacon they do not sound strange, they seem in their natural and rightful place, they seem at home there.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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The heroine takes off to India, where she ludicrously exchanges her laptop for Tibetan incenses.
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Then did each page as I turned it over bring some fresh recollection of one's unspeakable sense of newness and desolation; the haunting fear of doing something ludicrous; the morbid dread of chaff and of being "greened," which even in my time had, happily, supplanted the old terrors of being tossed in a blanket or roasted at a fire.
Collections and Recollections
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When you look at some of the bad tackles that have been punished far less it's completely ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was his ‘big idea’ and it was a hopelessly ill-conceived and ludicrously expensive one.
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During the ludicrously extended results programme last week, Martin launched an ill-tempered attack on what she described as the ‘attitude’ of some of the female contestants.
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Its ludicrous to assert that the government has become 'devalued'.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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They have put a British rider at the top of the podium, three years ahead of what seemed a ludicrously ambitious schedule.
Times, Sunday Times
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To maintain the differential, extra bands would need to be added at the top end of the scale, whilst lopping off those disused bands at the bottom, which is ludicrous.
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IV. iii.163 (113,4) [if the old fantastical duke] Sir Thomas Hammer reads, _the_ odd _fantastical duke_, but _old_ is a common word of aggravation in ludicrous language, as, _there was_ old _revelling_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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As energy prices soar, it will seem ludicrously wasteful to cart goods halfway round the world.
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Surprised by this kind of congratulation, but also much amused by it, as if there could be nothing so ludicrous as the idea of May not marrying a man who loved her as he loved, Gabriel gravely responded,
Trumps
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He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or 'cockshy' -- he had seen this very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, with an immense bear-skin cap on his head, staggering under the colours of the regiment.
The History of Pendennis
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If there is less money for parties to spend on ludicrous tablets of stone or vitriolic negative campaign ads then that would be a good thing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore the whole exercise can at best be described as ludicrous and certainly a total waste of town funds.
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At the time the idea was totally ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frankly, using this as a measure of the attitudes of an entire nation is ludicrous.
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It's a completely ludicrous suggestion.
The Sun
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After a day spent in dress rehearsal for a war that doesn't seem to be happening, the boys head to the local dance club looking like ludicrous anachronisms in their white Foreign Legion caps.
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I certainly do not need my beach time spoilt by the sight of dozens of police ludicrously measuring the spaces occupied by deckchairs, as happened recently.
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This crazy award also opens the path for similar ludicrous claims.
The Sun
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It was ludicrous to suggest that the visit could be kept secret.
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The idea that it was just depression or hysteria, a psychoneurosis or ‘all in the mind,’ he found not only ludicrous and cruel, but also dangerous, and his records contain several examples of suicide.
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Sadly, the film is being ludicrously overhyped, and thus many may end up feeling a bit let down upon actually seeing it.
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We are expected to bow down before the divinely written Word, even when that Word famously, ludicrously contradicts itself over and over and over again.
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The idea that a pit crew can win a race, irrespective of the ability of the driver, is ludicrous.
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Countenances of such amazement were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation, he had palmed some abstruse, monkish epicedium upon his astounded auditors.
Rookwood
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Workplaces are full of people who incubate pointless envy, who nurse rivalries, who are unembarrassed to exhibit ludicrously vaulting ambition.
Times, Sunday Times
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This ludicrous fuss epitomises our confused attitude to official mourning.
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In the Upanishads, the veritable storehouse of Indian philosophy, the sublime and the mundane, occasionally even the ludicrous, co-exist.
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It is ludicrous to suggest that I was driving under the influence of alcohol.
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It is a ludicrous standfirst and is clearly not connected to anything that's likely to happen in the real world.
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Like its similarly underrated cousin, Birth, Joshua makes up in potent atmosphere and formal mastery what it lacks in narrative logic; unlike Birth, however, it's further enhanced by two superlative adult performances (courtesy Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga) that invest a ludicrous premise with conviction and behavioral nuance.
GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Joshua.
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When you take a look at it, space travel is an inherently ludicrous idea.
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Excluding some citizens from running in elections because of their ethnicity is a ludicrously backward concept.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Attached to the desk of animation director Kim Jun-bok is a hand-drawn picture of a six pack of Duff Beer, the preferred brand of Springfield's ludicrous lushes.
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And they ignored the way he won a meaningless election marred by murder last year with a ludicrous 93 per cent share of the vote.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is ludicrous to think our board would accept such a proposal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Low interest rates have helped generate a housing bubble that has lifted real estate prices to ludicrous heights in major parts of the country.
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By their imprudent actions, they make the people of this country ludicrous and laughing-stocks to others.
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You had to hear the sneer in his voice for that, and the ludicrous interruptions.
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Nor could it ever forgive him for rendering ludicrous supposed panaceas, the so-called arcana (mumia, ceratum humanum, unicornu).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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How did we get into this ludicrous situation?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was ludicrous to think that the plan could succeed.
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The retainers soon retired, and Lovat (on whom drink made no impression) found means to unlock every other mind, and keep his own designs impenetrably secret; while the ludicrous and careless air of his discourse helped to put people off their guard; and searchless cunning and boundless ambition were hid under the mask of careless hilarity.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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Likewise, if you think it is ludicrous to call SSM a ‘right’ and that those in favor of it are blatantly ignoring the historical definition of marriage and substituting one of their own choosing purely on selfish grounds and are calling those against SSM hateful and ignorant without addressing the substance of the claims then you will tend to think of pro-SSM advocates as bigoted.
How is bigotry defined?
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Of course not, the idea is ludicrous.
The Sun
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There was a rather quick and direct response by people to disabuse me of such a ludicrous idea.
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But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?
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When Arnold Schwarzenegger looks at the camera in a ludicrous Mr. Freeze outfit and growls, "Eets tahm to keek ice," I am bowled over by a landslide of revelations: That someone had to write that line, thinking it was good enough to be on the big screen.
"A Good Argument"
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It seems oversubtle to charge me with "squeamishness" when I have admitted to finding Miss Blais's horror stories "ludicrous.
Exorcising Demons
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Carefully dressed in the very worst of taste from his scarfpin to his boots, he had evidently just been too carefully shaved, for there were scratches on his wide, ludicrous face, and his smile was as rueful as a clown's.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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We wish to register our protest at the ludicrous, hare-brained and outrageous scheme being put forward as improvements, supposedly to increase the flow of traffic through this area.
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He, for me, has always been funniest playing the straight dope, the poor schmuck who is constantly assailed by ludicrous circumstances.
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Iridescent purple swamphens, lavished with outrageous lipstick (their bills and frontal shields actually) stomp over the leaves on gigantic spider feet, bobbing their ludicrous white-handkerchief tails behind them.
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Making casual work illegal, by such devices as minimum wage laws and ludicrously restrictive safety regulations, is a complete disaster for the poor, because it destroys the first few rungs of the economic ladder.
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We are officially a bilingual nation and I think it is ludicrous that we cannot provide that facility in this Parliament.
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They don't have embarrassing egos and ludicrous outfits or shed crocodile tears.
The Sun
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Second, and more ludicrous, is that people explode when exposed to vaccuum.
MIND MELD: What Are The Most Realistic (and the Most Ridiculous) Uses of Science in SciFi Film and TV?
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This unsourced figure is ludicrous, especially coming from a chancellor.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a burst of eloquence!" exclaimed Frank, who, on the first sound of the kingly voice, had begun to attitudinize; while Trevannion gazed on his friend with a quiet, gentlemanly air of inquiry, that was not to be put out of countenance by any circumstance how ludicrous soever,
Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
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The idea that a single company could corner the market on such research is ludicrous.
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Any notion of anglicizing their later writing would be ludicrous.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The players ludicrously threatened not to travel to Turkey if their teammate wasn't reinstated.
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When you look at some of the bad tackles that have been punished far less it's completely ludicrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The imagination is sometimes said to be tickled by a ludicrous idea; and this so-called tickling of the mind is curiously analogous with that of the body.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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Of course not, the idea is ludicrous.
The Sun
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Brady with whom he had started off to "Parus" on a month’s summer junket, and with whom he had stumbled so ludicrously into the riff-raff ranks of the 3rd Foreign Legion.
Barbarians
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Add in that Peter doesn't even get spider-spinneret organs to "feel" subconsiously and the whole idea is just ludicrous.
Snark Free Corner for 12/10 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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A variation on the theme is to imagine the interviewer as a toothbrush, or something equally ludicrous.
How to Face Interviews
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Scorch An Island features fully destroyable landscapes and all kinds of ludicrous special effects, and is definitely worth a moment of your time.
SLACKERJACK – Grow Island
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There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience.
