How To Use Risible In A Sentence
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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Let's examine: on Abbey Road, Lennon was guilty of the same "artsy"-ness you accuse Macca/Martin of: how about "Because" or "I Want You She's So Heavy" - Lennon was quite hands on re: those songs and did quite a bit of the "artsiness" you find so risible and of which you are so derisive - he just wasn't very good at it and didn't really strike any memorable tunes.
Imagine no SUVs... I wonder if you can...
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The constitutional position of the emperor was a fudge, the principate a risible bit of populist theatre.
The Times Literary Supplement
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These evenings were sometimes varied by recitations from an elocutionist on board; and a practised clog dancer excited the risibles of the company to the extent that they usually shouted with laughter at his exhibition of flying heels.
A Woman who went to Alaska
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Workers can passionately complain about some derisible human specimen, only to be seen joking heartily with them seconds later.
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Although such simplifications risk erasing the rich nuances found in ethical debates over pioneering research, they do aid in attenuating risible fears often associated with such advances.
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Fines as set are often derisible for motoring infringements.
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I arrived at the Exam Schools this morning to find that all lectures had been cancelled because of a derisible sit-in protest.
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Today, the very idea that you might use the timetable for anything other than as a doorstop is risible.
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The notion that students should be entitled to rate their teachers is truly derisible.
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It is not risible or chauvinistic to believe there are some things a country needs to celebrate.
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The suggestion of some ulterior motive for the affair, particularly ambition, was risible in a way that the widow could not have imagined.
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It was with difficulty that Mrs. Harold controlled her risibles, so utterly absurd rather than pathetic was the whole situation, for not one atom of real grief for Joshua lay in poor, shallow Minervy's heart.
Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home
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Nip/Tuck is an unwatchable mess, and his only foray into feature filmmaking was the derisible adaptation of Running with Scissors.
Could Glee Be the TV Hit of the Spring?
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His indignation began to melt as he thought of the miraculous recovery of the umbrella, and, since he was a genial and lenient soul, each glance he took at the wretched Pio tickled his risibles more and more, until his shoulders shook with merriment.
The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions
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risible courtroom antics
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His political views could be contested but the notion that he would actually give information to the British about fellow comrades is literally risible.
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But what makes this performance so notable are the subtle ways Ms. Michele makes Rachel at turns both empathetic and derisible, sometimes within the same take.
A Star is Born on Glee, But the Series Itself Doesn't Quite Shine
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It's not enough that I pack the picnics and attempt to eradicate ineradicable grass stains; my lack of interest in sport is treated as a risible absence of general knowledge.
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It seemed a pretty good idea at the time and certainly better than the risible tripartite system that went before.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a man who purports to understand Irish history it is an utterly bizarre and almost derisible statement.
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As tribes continue to pursue their own interests ever more zealously, the idealistic rhetoric of multinational organizations will become ever more risible.
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The plot is predictably risible, and the battles are far too easy, but the game engine and graphics are solid enough to make the gameplay enjoyable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This something frequently covers a good deal of ground, for with one or two of the boys it means pranks or roguishness of some sort, which really enlivens the whole household and keeps our risibles from growing rusty by disuse.
A Woman who went to Alaska
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The story has been simplified to the level of a cartoon, the music is portentous and the lyrics are more risible than profound.
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I dared not laugh at the child's earnestness, though I had some trouble in controlling my risibles, the aforesaid young officer not having
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
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It seems ridiculous - risible - to blame working mothers for what some people perceive as the collapse of society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, taking the Laughing Hyena as the next illustration, it will be remembered by all students of GOLDSMITH'S _Animated Nature_, that this amiable quadruped invariably exercises his risibles when he is crunching the bones of some other less truculent quadruped.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870
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But, either way, these arguments strike me as risible; dialectics dissolves in giggles.
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The most that I could do was to lie back upon my bed, cram my fascinator into my mouth, and struggle to suppress my risibles.
A Woman who went to Alaska
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(Many people have found the name Scunthorpe risible on independent grounds.)
Language Log
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He may mean it to be risible, but it nevertheless is pretty impressive.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Howard Jacobson's Novel Takes the Prize
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The special effects were not unconvincing; they were risible, especially the scenes of the wealthy giantess stalking the countryside.
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He has seen ‘antiques with an impeccable history that are materially wrong on every count, and objects that are obvious, risible fakes that pass every test - it makes life interesting!’
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But the display of dissected body parts is risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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To a lot of Europeans, these judgements seem almost risible.
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Its first series back in the sixties may have been judged a failure by the network bosses, its low budgets, poor production values and bad acting may make it risible now, but its accumulated linguistic influence has been substantial.
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I find all that ‘daughters’ stuff fairly risible, and am not sure that it's just a question of rhetorical flourishes.
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Thing is, I'm having trouble explaining why this film is so risible.
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But the display of dissected body parts is risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the three-hour length, the descent of Kathy Bates's character into madness is so abrupt as to be risible.
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The show doesn't premiere until Jan. 18 at 10 p.m. (following the derisible Secret Diary of a Call Girl), but you can watch the pilot episode right now in the VIP section of Showtime's Web site (use the password "TARA" when prompted).
Hey, Juno Fans! Diablo Cody's United States of Tara Premieres Online
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To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth.
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The idea of this seemed risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Of course this is the movie that cemented Jason as the real star of the films, and not in the derisible manner that Freddy Krueger became the shining star of the Elm Street franchise, and who can forget the brutally beautiful way he dispatches the naked teen in the yellow sack.
Simon’s Top Ten FRIDAY THE 13TH DEATHS w/clips & vids! | Obsessed With Film
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Despite her fine plush mezzo, she's unalluring in this role, with muddy diction and risible franglais.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hon. Gentleman's grasp of detail is usually so light that the idea of actually debating with him at all is risible.
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The criticism traditionally heaped upon science fiction and fantasy - that they are infantile and escapist genres - has always been fairly risible.
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The argument that the elderly should stand aside to allow the young to fill the subsequent gap is frankly risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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The special effects were not unconvincing; they were risible, especially the scenes of the wealthy giantess stalking the countryside.
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The common construction put upon the expression, "_rule with rigor_," and an inference drawn from it, have an air so oracular, as quite to overcharge risibles of ordinary calibre, if such an effect were not forestalled by its impiety.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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After its risible opening - Princeton admissions officers rifling through applications under cloying voiceover - the movie only sinks lower.
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Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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That first claim is arguable, the second risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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This World Cup started as it was to end - with a risible penalty from a ridiculously coiffured superstar.
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Furthermore, compared to the resources available to the alcohol industry to send out that message, the resources available to governmental organisations to imprint a health warning were risible.
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The very idea of Chef's Theater is so risible that we cannot be sure that the whole thing isn't merely an elaborate, brilliant hoax - indeed we desperately hope it is one.
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Some have made a career of talking down the Irish economy, but have a risible forecasting record.
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The notion that mainland Asia is about to supplant the US, EU and Japan in the near future is risible.
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My kids, however, can't understand what's so derisible about combining a camera with a telephone.
Is Humor Conservative?
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The police evidence was risible, the Crown prosecutor a lowbrow bulldog, and the defence counsel out of his depth.
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To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth.
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The dialogue may be risible and the characters two-dimensional and shallow but, for a while at least, it doesn't matter.
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As potential candidates ranging from the thoughtful (Mitch Daniels) to the risible (Donald Trump) take themselves out of the Republican presidential field, most of the remaining serious candidates have something very powerful and unnoted in common.
Carl Pope: The Incredible Shrinking GOP Field
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There was a queer choking sound from Nora and she walked quickly down to the other end of the drawing room and earnestly fixed her gaze upon a portrait of one of the judge's ancestors, until she could gain control of her risibles.
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
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Young then flung himself to the floor in a risible attempt to win a penalty.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's been making risible attempts to learn the trumpet.
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The story was nicely timed in public relations terms to swing media coverage away from his risible performance at the tribunal last week, when he was unable to recall matters of facts on a large number of occasions.
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‘I cannot imagine how any self-respecting female could possibly conceive of doing such a foolish thing, let alone begin to consider entertaining such risible notions myself,’ I replied curtly.
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The pace is leaden, the dialogue is risible and the plot is both complex and silly.
Times, Sunday Times
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One need not reflect far through modern history to realise that this suggestion is, frankly, risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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The storylines were repetitive, the performances often laughably wooden and the special effects frankly risible.
Times, Sunday Times
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The monies promised to upgrade public services are risible, given the scale of the British economy and the size of its population.
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In terms of quality, its accuracy veers from the occasionally passable to the frequently risible, while its all-important readability is even worse - and deteriorating.
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The last thing J.J. Abrams has been able to handle properly is the romantic comedy; just look at his derisible former television show October Road (or do yourself a favor and don't).
What's the Story <i>Morning Glory</i>? Harrison Ford Goes Rom-Com
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Although the plot is risible, the film's pretty funny.
Times, Sunday Times