How To Use Zany In A Sentence

  • His zany humour took comedy to new heights of absurdity.
  • A zany, ragtag band of men from my old stomping grounds of Upstate New York decided to buy themselves a racehorse on Memorial Day weekend of 1995.
  • We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
  • We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those reported to have lost houses in the community dubbed "America's Riviera" include actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as zany scientist Doc Brown in the Back To The Future films. Undefined
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  • His philosophy is a peculiar and wholly subjective patchwork of frustrated sexual fantasies, zany misanthropy, and 1960s hippy-dippy iconoclasm.
  • Whether you need a break from exams, or are just looking for an amusing, intelligent film, you can't go wrong with a trip to the zany world of Steve Zissou.
  • But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered.
  • Little of his output was significantly different from the likes of Steve Wright or other zany chatterboxes.
  • This is going to be a strange one, with lots of cross-currents flowing in zany directions.
  • The ‘copter is a fun, zany touch … (personally, would have loved AO dangling upside-down from a rope, instead, but …) Great new look. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Header Change
  • In the second half of the album, "Bcuz" is a brilliant confluence of zany pointillist melodies, swelling choruses and clever brass licks. Daniel J. Kushner: Audio Outliers: Rediscovering Recent Gems in Experimental Music
  • I don't know too many people who use the word 'zany,'" Axelrod told Fox News' NYDN Rss
  • It's kind of weird having a ghost - I call him the zany ghost - always around the house.
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the zany story of a cartoon bunny's madcap antics as he battles a corrupt legal system that has framed him for a brutal homicide.
  • This is going to be a strange one, with lots of cross-currents flowing in zany directions.
  • It seems hardly a week goes by anymore without yet another report of zany results of affirmative action in action.
  • We both liked making costumes and had a similarly zany sense of humour.
  • It can be "zany" or not (Beckett is zany in Waiting for Godot, not in How It Is or The Unnameable, but the effect is the same). Comedy in Literature
  • Many images involve cute little medicine pills, pieces of candy, or sushi rolls gen-bap engaging in zany hijinks and speaking in talk-bubbles. Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives
  • The last I knew he was living in the Borders in some psychiatric home or an old person's slightly zany home.
  • Dilbert fans can now rejoice with the publication of four new books showing the zany character slogging away under the never - ending onslaught of corporate culture.
  • A blindfold test of this album might yield guesses like Stereolab in their garage days or a guitar-less Zappa, but Need New Body's zany debut is a free-standing oddity.
  • Nor was he madcap, zany, and over-the-top like Robin Williams who in his public persona seems instinctively funny.
  • It takes the absurdities they perceive inherent in working life, darkens them, speeds them up and turns them into zany comedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Add to this already zany array of characters, a psychiatrist with his own uxoricidal fantasies, and you have a Broadway comedy.
  • Notably, cutea was also blotto epsilon's co-creator for the recent zany bogon flux build - a wonky, wonderful building that rezzes and destroys itself... Archive 2008-10-01
  • She made us all laugh with her zany tricks.
  • It's a zany, trippy excursion into the subconscious, highlighting the importance of love, strength and past passage, while casting a bleak shadow over abrupt decisions concerning matters that matter most.
  • Subtle shading was suddenly sacrificed to smirking, zany karaoke. Times, Sunday Times
  • Michael made us all laugh with his zany tricks.
  • It really feels like a family restaurant in Spain, down to the zany antics of Spanish sitcoms playing on the wall-mounted TV screen and a fuzbol table by the entrance.
  • The types of activities that were previously the preserve of a crazy, zany, wacky few are moving mainstream; what started as a fad has become a phenomenon.
  • Yes, knighthood is absurd: and chivalry an idiotic superstition: and Sir Walter Manny was a zany: and Nelson, with his flaming stars and cordons, splendent upon a day of battle, was a madman: and Roundabout Papers
  • As if watching your child widdle on the lino for the fifth time in as many hours is ever going to be a giggle, no matter how many zany star charts and ‘hilarious’ picture books you are presented with.
  • Where kooky, zany, and madcap meet is the locus of Jacquelyn Reingold's modest but spunky comedy String Fever.
  • Does this all sound a bit, uh, zany?
  • Oh boy more "zany" exploits from the annoying mom character. Witwicky Parents Return for Transformers 3 | /Film
  • May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always. Will Durst: Summer: Day One
  • She is antic and sour-faced even as she leaves her calling, and reason enough to see this zany play that by end, turns surprisingly poignant. Regina Weinreich: House of Blue Leaves on Broadway: No Kindness From Stranger
  • The result is a zany weekend of madcap musical comedy in classic Rankin / Bass style.
  • She is a member of the editorial board and one of the folks who has made the paper a national laughingstock for its thoroughgoing political correctness and zany leftism.
  • Do this by wasting money every two weeks on at least one expensive rouge lipstick that, once you have left the shop, turns out to be too berry, too Royal Mail-box red, too silt puddle brown or too zany raspberry for your skin pallor. Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up
  • We were all so pumped by his zany antics that we all ordered steaks.
  • Under creative director Samantha Cameron, it has been introducing limited-edition versions of its trademark datebooks in zany colors such as hot pink and purple, priced at $172.
  • His books, with their zany sense of humour, often explore his own childhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity.
  • Whether it's aiming for zany hilarity or astute satire, this show needs to stop preening and sharpen its claws. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those reported to have lost houses in the community dubbed "America's Riviera" included actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as the zany scientist in "Back to the Future". Signs of the Times
  • It is a far cry from the zany globetrotter of his stage shows.
  • a zany sense of humor
  • The children are taken under the wing of zany housekeeper Martha but rarely see their uncle, who demands absolute silence while he writes his book.
  • You've got to be loud and zany and willing to contort your face and body into positions that might fairly be described as unattractive; you've got to be completely uninhibited, shameless, and out of control. Annual Hog Calling Contest at Illinois State Fair Won by a Woman for the First Time
  • The zany hilarity of the early '80s has not aged well.
  • For those with a zany sense of humor, the adventures of Lieutenant Frank Drebin were a laugh riot from beginning to end.
  • Some tales, such as 'The Funeral' (1955) and 'The Doll that Does Everything' (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Feb. 25th, 2009 - Issue 0.039
  • Absolutely, but Tokyo is the international motor show that combines advanced technology with zany ideas and humour. Times, Sunday Times
  • How are we to be entertained by her zany antics when she's incarcerated?
  • Ben has adapted his zany thriller about ecological disaster and will play the lead.
  • That he would use this term, as well as the equally condescending "zany" in referring to this latter comedy makes his valuation of it clear enough, but later he also remarks that "Evelyn Waugh, alas, still represents the great image of English comedy in the 20th century, rather than his subtler and gentler contemporary, Henry Green. Comedy in Literature
  • Viewers of last night's late editions of Ten News and Sports Tonight would have enjoyed the zany antics of the respective crews if they were watching closely.
  • We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every gapper-mouth zany grinning at me, and scoundrels swearing that I get my share! Mary Anerley
  • Clear off the coffee list with the single zany of the tail.
  • Absolutely, but Tokyo is the international motor show that combines advanced technology with zany ideas and humour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Was she so completely smitten by the side-splitting antics of the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet that she overlooked the foibles of the irrepressibly zany Herman Cain? Dear Barbara, Your A-List Needs Work
  • He made us all laugh with his zany tricks.
  • Gingrich's remarks at the Republican debate Thursday night were aimed at rival Mitt Romney, who in an interview on Wednesday used the word "zany" to describe the former House speaker. The Seattle Times
  • The crazy collage of styles is here but, overall, the feel is less zany and surreal.
  • By this stage I was barely holding it together, ready to bust out in tears of joy at how zany these madcap antics were unfolding to be.
  • The craze that is sweeping America and Europe, sending crowds flocking to landmarks or shops to stage zany gatherings, arrived in Yorkshire at the weekend.
  • Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • Yet regulated vivisection has been confounded with antivivisection by the union of zany cranks and trade-unionized men of medicine, who have not refrained from the coercion of patients, from the deception of the public, from the inoculation of legislators with mendacity, capsuled in sophistry, and from the direct or indirect corruption or intimidation of not a few public journals. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
  • A night of zany misdirection and bonding ensues.
  • Have a Zany Person: No matter what genre you choose to violate, every screenplay benefits from having a kooky character.
  • He brings us authority, composure and work rate and a bossing of midfield players we have lacked all of this zany season.
  • Master chefs have their hands full preparing a variety of delectable dishes with zany flavours and tangy taste.
  • The former Massachusetts governor has been going negative on Gingrich, using the word "zany" in a New York Times interview Wednesday to make the point that whoever GOP voters choose as their White House nominee will need to have "sobriety. News
  • More than a few wine-producing regions have a grape they like to call their own: South Africans pine for pinotage, Aussies are smitten with Shiraz; and Californians are zany for Zinfandel.
  • By this stage I was barely holding it together, ready to bust out in tears of joy at how zany these madcap antics were unfolding to be.
  • True, the plot of FIRST AMONG SEQUELS takes a backseat to all the zany stuff, but the resolution is a direct result of all the strange happenings. 39. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
  • Master chefs have their hands full preparing a variety of delectable dishes with zany flavours and tangy tastes.
  • We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her house truck with its zany adornments can be quickly converted to fit in with our image of a gypsy fortune teller's tent.
  • zany life + crazy faith: from the good "ollie" days **** From the good "ollie" days ****
  • The Child Trust Fund is embarrassingly reminiscent of US presidential candidate George McGovern's zany scheme to give every American citizen $1,000.
  • Show Us Ya Wits is a zany hour of belly-achingly funny and fresh stand-up.
  • Fold in a heaping helping of zany comic business and you get a show that is not just amusing but wildly, chokingly funny. Love Among the Redwoods
  • His books, with their zany sense of humour, often explore his own childhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • It takes the absurdities they perceive inherent in working life, darkens them, speeds them up and turns them into zany comedy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of their zany antics, the entire lot of them are boxed up and shipped off.
  • I mean it ought to be the charming old eccentric uncle with the zany housekeeper and the funny little critter on the beach and it just seems to miss out on that level and I actually felt that all the children were really unlikeable.
  • The children are taken under the wing of zany housekeeper Martha but rarely see their uncle, who demands absolute silence while he writes his book.
  • We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like walking into the fun house at your local fair it's zany, madcap and often tongue in cheek.
  • Those reported to have lost houses in the community dubbed "America's Riviera" included actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as the zany scientist in the "Back to the Future" movies. Top Stories - Google News

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