How To Use Silliness In A Sentence
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Silliness in stories is more or less excusable, since they are not even supposed to be believed.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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These are all lonely, arguably damaged people, and once you get past the silliness it's all rather crushingly sad.
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If Ratzinger wants to stay in Italy and scare school kids by telling them God is watching when they French kiss or masturbate, that is his sexual silliness.
Joe Cutbirth: The Pope Can't Get Away With This
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Perhaps they will dub it the age of unreason, petty bureaucracy and utter silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The constant barrage of earnestly delivered silliness should win over even the hardest hearts.
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Dhaif-Allah went on splashing out his water, sure that after we had finished with our silliness someone would yet need and buy his greenstuff.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Of course, being the first story arc after the One More Day silliness, this arc is going to have to live up to some stringent standards, like whether this story's quality was contingent upon it being a single Spider-Man (which is questionable, as the best aspects of this comic were the old-fashioned superhero stuff and the return of the supporting cast - neither of which hinged on Peter being married) and forcing the new potential love interest to be compared instantly to Mary Jane, which is a tough comparison for a new character, although Carlie Cooper hold up pretty well, I think (she even has an alliterative name!) as the nerdy, yet attractive, police scientist roommate/best friend of Harry Osborn's new girlfriend.
The Amazing Spider-Man #546-548 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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Our rivalry in the old days was the silliness of youth.
The Sun
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For here is the genius of the Welsh fabulists in 21 compact episodes; where intense silliness, moral rigour, cavalier experiments and unforgettable tunes meet and make magic.
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Those of us subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (don't get me started on this silliness) in the middle-class and in the upper-income class will not have to worry about it for now.
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I'm a total sucker for inspired silliness and non-stop, groan-worthy double entendres and barmily burgeoning plots.
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Besides its spot-on timeliness, "Outsourced" is a delightful comedy for how it deftly harvests laughs from the inevitable culture clash, from Todd's overeagerness to bridge the gap, and from the innate silliness of the company's product line (whoopee cushions, foam fingers and the like).
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It's all macho to the point of silliness, but hugely entertaining nonetheless.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the plot is plodding and the battle scenes are uninspiring - offering neither camp silliness nor emotional heft.
The Sun
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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The experience-its calculated mystery, its silliness-was fun, but the whole phenomenon begs the question: what for?
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Film School Rejects said the film feels like “a mixture between the silliness and absurdness of a Farrelly brothers movie, but with the intelligence of a Coen brothers flick.”
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Two years ago, such an observation was appropriately arch, zeroing in on the silliness of such campaign press stunts.
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For Ms. Kornfeld, Pluto is round, has an atmosphere, has moons and has other planetlike characteristics, and she regards the condition about clearing the neighborhood around its orbit as silliness.
TierneyLab
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It looks to me like this silliness is rather quickly morphing into being both destructive and self-defeating.
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Any more would have been too much silliness and bad puns.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time around – and I think we're on the 22nd remake now – they've steampunked it, gussying it up with much retro-futuristic silliness and cheap-looking CGI, anachronistic weaponry and ordnance, by-the-numbers action-heroics, and a sky teeming with armadas of heavily armoured hot-air balloons reminiscent of Zeppelins.
This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash
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It was a little slow getting started, but by the second act there was political satire and plain silliness aplenty.
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His strong performance delivers the movie from all-out silliness; this is quite a feat, given that he's required to utter lines like ‘That's a sandstorm!’
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His movies seem to be replete with great ideas hampered by wild mood swings of stupidity or silliness.
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Burlesque is the voice of irreverence, low humour, plain silliness.
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Mostly they've tried to handle the 'beam-tapping' problem in deepspace communications by avoiding it … defeating it at sending and receiving ends with 'unbreakable' codes, hypercoherent wavicle packets, all that silliness.
My Enemy My Ally
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She loved his kindness and his silliness, though she was a little unnerved by his desire to get into scuffles.
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Resnick also offers a great editorial about the silliness of defining science fiction, a genre which refuses to be put in a "straightjacket".
August 2007
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This is not civil liberty but plain silliness.
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Well, a little arty-crafty silliness came in handy today.
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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The punning names cued by this concept — such as hippotatoes and tacodiles — epitomise the film's joyful silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It might be a good way to try out some of the designs you have in mind for real pumpkins this year or just provide some silliness as you carve up outrageous faces and designs.
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My arms are about him in comradeship, despite the silliness of his act, as I chance to judge it.
Jack London's Nonfiction Collection of Unpublished Book Forwards
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JOSCELYN: Silliness in stories is more or less excusable, since they are not even supposed to be believed.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
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Munchkin is a stand-alone card game designed by Steve Jackson that "simulates" well, sorta 'a fantasy-themed RPG oh, ok, D n D in a simple, card-based game that's chock full o' silliness.
Grat.uito.us
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It was going well, reminiscing about the past, laughing at all the silliness of a time gone by.
The Sun
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Haha, anyways - all silliness aside, my standard bran muffin recipe is proving to be incredibly versatile these days!
Archive 2008-12-01
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What is a little more unexpected is that this is no frothy, throwaway piece of pretty silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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His embarrassingly manufactured cameo only adds to the lame silliness of the scene.
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The criticisms, curiously enough, came in a great many cases from the very men in the Towers 'ranks who had often "groused" most at the silliness of themselves being kept up to the mark in these matters.
Action Front
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It was a little slow getting started, but by the second act there was political satire and plain silliness aplenty.
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The fundamental silliness of my article lies, however, not in its numerous solecisms but in the dubiousness of its central thesis and of the " reasoning’ adduced to support it.
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The combination of sentiment and silliness works brilliantly, and the sight of Ricky in full voodoo witch doctor regalia mesmerized by his newborn son is an iconographic moment in I Love Lucy's run.
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As an aside, and somewhat unrelated from the original topic, this helps to point out the silliness of one of the provisions common in “assault weapons” bans.
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The animation looked nothing like the Saturday morning silliness which used to be cranked out by the truckload.
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But quite apart from the silliness of it all, it's a usefully concrete, physical metaphor for what much of our software already does.
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It was going well, reminiscing about the past, laughing at all the silliness of a time gone by.
The Sun
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The Web site engages in some silliness at the expense of non-dairy creamers' ingredients, pointing out that sodium caseinate, for instance, is used in making glue, that non-dairy creamer can be flammable, and that some contain cellulose gel and gum, ingredients used in making shampoo and shaving cream.
Is that right? La Creme: 100% dairy, 0% shame
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The story could easily have run adrift in formulaic silliness.
Mistaken identity turns this 'Date Night' into madcap romp
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This is pretty legalistic reasoning, which many people may - rightly or wrongly - consider casuistic to the point of silliness.
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Such silliness is great for the ratings, but pul-ese!
Amateur Editors Ahoy!
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Any more would have been too much silliness and bad puns.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the civilized state, on the contrary, the weakliest and the silliest, protected by law, religion, and humanity, have chance likewise, and transmit to their offspring their own weakliness or silliness.
Hereward, the Last of the English
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Obama soon will take the bully pulpit while millions of frustrated people wait for “change”, somehow missing the overt silliness of the overuse of a term intentionally ambivalent as to outcome.
The Obama Conundrum: Progress and Protest in the Face of Reality
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From time to time I still dig out my Elvis ring or wear my Charlie Brown necklace to relive the nostalgia - it always makes me smile to see the plastic shiny silliness of it all.
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I don't usually do the internet quiz/meme/silliness thing, but this has caused me at times to be called humorless, and, hey, it's spring.
Because If Everybody Else Jumped Off a Bridge, I Would, Too
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While this story is not entirely without gaping plot holes or rampant silliness, it should at least provoke a good supply of laughs and snickers.
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I laughed at his silliness, asked Holly to pause the movie for a second, and got up to go out to the kitchen.
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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However ... we now load it up for our family hoildays sometimes with surfboards and sometimes with snowboards, music and always extra kids ... and I now love the silliness it puts into our lives!!
Vélo - French Word-A-Day
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But it is dispensed with such style, coupled to such a mixture of absurd silliness and sly knowingness about human nature, that you can't help falling for its charms.
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Perhaps they will dub it the age of unreason, petty bureaucracy and utter silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is only later generations, yearning for the comfort of a golden past, who have fallen for his euphonious silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nowadays you see too many young men get off the road into silliness.
The Sun
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Well, a little arty-crafty silliness came in handy today.
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So I think it's probably a bit of silliness caused by a trick of the light.
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For those with no interest in bodybuilding, these segments can either be seen as retro silliness (the 80s hairstyles were particularly inane) or just plain nuts (you wind up knowing absolutely nothing about the bodybuilders after spending time with time).
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I have been conducting an experiment aimed at analysing the intensifying silliness, stupidity and vacuousness of the world.
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Hiding behind all this silliness is a guitar virtuoso with a knack for making face-melting riffs appeal to the arctophile in all of us-balls of yarn, florescent clutter,
Cokemachineglow.com
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To fuse such pagan silliness with musical adventurousness and the world of folk was inspired.
Times, Sunday Times
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One article I just found on the Internet, which means it should be accorded no more respect than it deserves, has this: "To barrack for," Australian slang for "to vigorously and noisily support a sports team," most likely comes from the Aboriginal Australian word "borak," meaning "nonsense or silliness.
Genre writer Peter Temple wins literary award
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These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness.
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But the plot is plodding and the battle scenes are uninspiring - offering neither camp silliness nor emotional heft.
The Sun
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The race, which generated a donation of 1 million cans of soup for charity, was part of the silliness that accompanies Super Bowl hoopla.
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It's easy to list the sillinesses of this idea, but it did remind me of one of my favourite stories.
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And although Heroin trips up on its own determined sleaziness, the album as a whole is a not-unappealing blend of suspenders, silliness and Siouxsie Sioux.
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He's got the quick wit and playful silliness of Neato.
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Forget all this silliness about birds, mosquitoes and cannibal cows, Kuru is the wave of the future my friends and I intend to be surfing this one all the way to the bank!
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Two years ago, such an observation was appropriately arch, zeroing in on the silliness of such campaign press stunts.
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The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
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He had imagined that there might be a fairly emotional farewell, but the silliness of that bit of self-deception quickly became evident.
THE LONGEST WAY HOME
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It's troubling to think that this show, despite its silliness, accurately reflects a breeziness in our culture.
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There will be more afoot, in other words, than sonic silliness.
IT TAKES TWO TO 'RANGO': Why the animated Depp hit is a very, very good film
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They have a great 'believable couple' rapport that is ripe for dry silliness.
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And its blend of song, silliness and emotional acuity is theatrical magic.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks to me like this silliness is rather quickly morphing into being both destructive and self-defeating.
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The government, purveying seriousness, can now be affronted with silliness.
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Unintended silliness creeps steadily in, finally swamping us in a lumpenly melodramatic climax.
Times, Sunday Times
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The faint air of pie-eyed 60s silliness song titles include Spider Cider and Idea for Rubber Dog and Dwyer's cartoonish vocalisms could put some off, but there's more than enough sunny, funny, manic charm to make it all work.
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What is a little more unexpected is that this is no frothy, throwaway piece of pretty silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the plot is plodding and the battle scenes are uninspiring - offering neither camp silliness nor emotional heft.
The Sun
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She had realized the silliness of her love for Mr. Knightley, and Mr. Martin's continued love had tickled her vanity.
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Of course, being the first story arc after the One More Day silliness, this arc is going to have to live up to some stringent standards, like whether this story's quality was contingent upon it being a single Spider-Man (which is questionable, as the best aspects of this comic were the old-fashioned superhero stuff and the return of the supporting cast - neither of which hinged on Peter being married) and forcing the new potential love interest to be compared instantly to Mary Jane, which is a tough comparison for a new character, although Carlie Cooper hold up pretty well, I think (she even has an alliterative name!) as the nerdy, yet attractive, police scientist roommate/best friend of Harry Osborn's new girlfriend.
The Amazing Spider-Man #546-548 Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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There is much silliness abroad on the ‘logic’ governing the use of comparatives and superlatives.
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What is a little more unexpected is that this is no frothy, throwaway piece of pretty silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is probably a waste of time to dignify this silliness.
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I really admire oneself, because also only has me to be able the such silliness.
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The striking geometrized designs lend visual excitement to the freewheeling silliness and supernatural adventures.
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Then [he says] comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society.
My beloved South,
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To attempt to ascribe any deeper meaning than that to anything she espoused is silliness.
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The problem is the script, which never once pauses to consider its own essential silliness.
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It has the kind of silliness that makes you turn a blind eye to such trifles as plausibility or emotional truth in musicals from the '30s and '40s.
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A good cast is led into a cul-de-sac of silliness.
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But then again, we're stuck at a PC tapping away all day, while he is doing a job he no doubt loves, where people pay him for his silliness.
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And those with an affinity for the silliness, slapstick, and tomfoolery of this sort of comedy will be turned off by the costumes.
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I think they want the Dems to obstruct the nomination and will wait until that time to throw themselves upon the cheesy-puff dust covered mosaic and wailing like cholic stricken baybehs about agendas and whatnot other silliness that lees in their curdled minds.
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But the plot is plodding and the battle scenes are uninspiring - offering neither camp silliness nor emotional heft.
The Sun
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So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness?
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Andy Richter Andy Richter-Conan O'Brien's the year 2000, a writer, actor, and comedian that we'll have to call a funnyman-will be abetting his old boss 'silliness when
Slate Magazine
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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The film's erotic subtext has been devoured by silliness.
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they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
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Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks.