NOUN
- United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)
How To Use Rube Goldberg In A Sentence
- She sends her somewhat absent-minded sister to start the job and wait for her to come for the finish, and her sister ends up setting fire to the house she's supposed to be cleaning in a Rube Goldberg sort of way involving a bed, a cat, a candle, curtains, and an overdose of ditziness. Comic Mediocrity
- Critics say there's no "ergo" about it, and that the conclusion that Oswald was the lone assassin forced the commission into a scenario out of Rube Goldberg. Bottom Line: How Crazy Is It?
- A filmmaker has built animated an actual Rube Goldberg machine -- a self-operating napkin -- and written an original score to accompany it and will perform both tomorrow night in NYC. Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives
- To illustrate the burden of European economic regulations, for example, she describes the Rube Goldberg-like process of attempting to purchase a car in Paris.
- Its three percussionists play on elements of a miniature trap set, divided among them and slung around their necks, and the rest of the group - three saxophonists, pairs of trumpeters and trombonists, a sousaphonist and a piccolo player - play from miniature scores mounted as Rube Goldberg-like extensions of their clothing and instruments. NYT > Home Page
- Yes, but the Rube Goldberg machine just got way wackier. BioLogos Reviews "Signature in the Cell"
- The antonymic figure of speech is a “Rube Goldberg invention,” after the cartoonist who drew up the most complex methods of completing a simple task. No Uncertain Terms
