She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions. |
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Silly little first kisses were fine for people who hadn't truly found love, but that feeling drained away. |
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Silly me, nothing must get in the way of the onward march of gadgetry or, in this case, the conversion of the car into a wheeled replica of the home. |
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I purchased a reasonably priced poncho, a cute t-shirt that says Silly boy, trucks are for chicks!, two pairs of pants and a pretty off-the-shoulder shirt. |
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Silly ghost stories are otherworldly dalliances, whereas Frankenstein projects dilemmas of coherence and comprehension that are a permanent challenge for narration. |
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The humour of Pimple films derived from theatrical burlesque, music-hall satire and from a tradition of buffoonery that embraced such infantilised characters as Silly Billy. |
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The fun and frolics continued on stage as Silly Billy the Clown and his sidekick Candy Floss kept the kids entertained with a host of hilarious antics. |
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Acoustic groups who continued to interpret traditional material through into the 1970s included Ossian and Silly Wizard. |
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And the name of Silly Sausage will live in perpetuity, having gifted to Godzone the Branxton Bus Beer Challenge. |
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The Crazy Adventures of he Silly Six is the sequel x which is equally fun and hacky. |
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Silly Stour got on the wrong side of the referee for the opening quarter and were repeatedly penalised for some unnecessary backchat. |
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Stewart of Silly Wizard, Brian McNeill of Battlefield Band, and Dougie MacLean of the Tannahill Weavers. |
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It seems our nurse contracted melodram patheticism from a nervous dog. Silly old cow. |
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However, he became such a silly sausage later on that I can't nominate any of his songs as my all time favourite. |
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Ack, it sounds so silly and trivial now, but I was literally shaking with rage at the time. |
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I say she is being silly and is only complaining because she did not really want to come to Bath in the first place. |
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But they then conceded a silly penalty and compounded their error when, after some backchat, the referee moved them ten metres backwards. |
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I know it's silly but I've grown used to my quiet little life, pottering about the house and garden, teasing the cats and tending the plants. |
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You really think I'm supposed to marry you on the spot right now just because you answered some silly trivia question? |
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The dragon, expertly lip-synched, is my friend with a T. Rex toothsomeness plus a sweet, silly grin. |
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I felt slightly silly as I remained in my chair, watching everyone dancing and having fun. |
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My 5-year-old giggled aloud at the silly premise of a tone-deaf and rhythmically challenged bird, Igor, who sets out in search of music lessons. |
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She is wearing a silly hat with toggles on either side, and these dance and jiggle the more aggressive she becomes. |
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It was silly and manipulative, but I liked it anyway, in part because of how silly and manipulative it was. |
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All childish schoolboy humour, no doubt, but we enjoyed it enormously and laughed ourselves silly. |
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We are frail, we are human, we make mistakes, we do foolish things, silly things. |
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The title is fashionably silly, in the manner of Flaubert's Parrot, while the subtitle suggests a thesis imperfectly converted into a book. |
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This made him look silly, because the whole shtick belongs to a different generation. |
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This is because I decided that I am clearly such a genius that I do not need external help from silly Mensa professors. |
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Rick scootered by May, and without saying anything covered her with silly string. |
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The trouble with these surveys, aside from their terminal lack of point, is that they insist on making silly comparisons. |
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His mother had enough trouble in her life without being messed around by some silly little girl. |
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There's a silly, bald-headed, grey-edged old man in a red sports convertible coming down the road towards me. |
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As a backlash against this silly move builds, the Greens are now scrambling to explain away the mess. |
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Much of the menu is Tex-Mex, but, refreshingly, you won't see a single cactus logo or silly hat anywhere. |
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Amanda had texted him first, with a silly little random message, an in-joke between them. |
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They are truly silly, absurd films, intended primarily to make people laugh. |
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It's way too silly for words, but if your children are familiar with the Peanuts strip, they might get a bang out of this. |
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It's to be hoped teenagers and any other silly fools don't go messing around in there. |
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But again due to silly mistakes and the poorest scrummaging I've ever seen from Wales, France got the better of them. |
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Well I just thought it was silly girls messing about, that they had been drinking or something so I didn't think twice about it. |
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What I can't understand is why we just can't leave people to live their lives in peace, unscathed by our silly, ridiculous prejudices. |
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A rich tan is unmistakably the hottest summer trend, yet we all know the dangers of toasting ourselves silly to get that sun-drenched look. |
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Happiness is not senseless, mindless, silly, stupid, corny, cheesy or unimportant. |
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He even provides the film with a slight tinge of laid-back silly humour at times. |
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It is just that I can no longer tolerate the time-wasting and silly game-playing that characterise local government. |
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She would guide me through the difficult parts and ridicule my silly mistakes. |
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Monday's story in the Wall Street Journal about Academy DVD screeners and their vulnerability to piracy was slightly silly. |
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It's not just silly old beardy blokes who make drunken fools of themselves on telly. |
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She handed him a small Icee bear toy, a silly straw, and a stack of tattoos. |
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This silly man is being abused, ridiculed and punished for having flouted his own moral principles, and then being idiotic enough to confess it. |
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She felt slightly silly, saying these things in front of her husband, but didn't care. |
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He was instead maundering about his room, thinking about silly things and wishing he knew what was going on. |
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He never thought a silly gossip column in a school paper could be so influential. |
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They introduce rules of engagement and silly words to enhance a sense of self-importance among the initiated. |
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Mrs H first ticked her off for taking a silly route then offered her a hot bath. |
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It was silly and vain, self-referentially clever and quite utterly ridiculous. |
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Unfortunately, we are perceived as focusing mostly on debunking the silly stuff like UFOs, spoon benders, and psychic spiritualists. |
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He was a melodramatist, infusing all those silly melodramas with style, with signs and meanings. |
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Hopefully they did not do anything silly like glue the underlayment to the hardwood flooring. |
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The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seem slightly silly in retrospect. |
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I think what you didn't realize is how twittish and silly your non-helpful post is in a group like this. |
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There is, finally and thankfully, a murder and one of the silly, uptight moos gets locked up. |
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I LOATHE the new-fangled, sickly sweet, vodka-based mixes with silly names that fill the fridges in trendy bars. |
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At the two hour mark I was really getting pretty tuckered out, and began making silly mistakes. |
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Taken at face value it might seem quite a silly idea but in fact it was based on some fundamental truths. |
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But I bet the silly old trout just left it in the bank instead of spending it. |
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Writing off communism as a fad for silly kids is just as bad as showing it up as a serious menace. |
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Indeed, it was aberrant of him to accept the job and downright silly of the government to appoint him. |
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Again, one file change can put a little red nose next to all of your headers, turn the text red and even make them display in a silly typeface. |
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And since she answered my silly questions with patience and saccharine sweetness, she is in my good books. |
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I know, it sounds silly to say that you go through hard times with someone you've never met, but we did. |
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He wasn't especially harsh, but he reminded me of my short-sightedness and silly academic pretensions. |
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The orange jelly, though, was nothing more than a silly fancy on a rainy day. |
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There's a skinny, floppy-haired scamp on stage wearing a slightly silly outfit. |
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I figured I'd get the silly quotient in early today, as the rest of the day will be a bit heavy handed. |
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Even if they all misread my essay, at least they seem to take Martin Luther's theology more seriously than did the silly movie I reviewed. |
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The game lacks any kind of flow due to the often mind-bending puzzles and silly dialogue sequences. |
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Even professional websites do silly things that slow down your internet connection. |
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He felt silly that he'd allowed her muddled ravings to addle him in the first place. |
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I have more important things to do than put up with more of her silly mind games. |
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As we leaned over the ledges we took silly pictures of each other until I managed to drop the camera off the railings. |
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This is the perfect opportunity for those of you who are afraid to be political, silly, irreverent, serious, mouthy, or sexy on your own website. |
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She's a silly bint for being so confrontational and not being able to back it up though. |
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It's juvenile and plain silly, and I don't like it contextually as a roleplayer. |
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All of that may sound juvenile and silly, but the chaos really only lasts for 10 minutes of the 50-minute performance. |
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This tour is excruciatingly banal and juvenile, lightened only by the silly antics of his friend Joe. |
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I feel this need to show people we can do it on our own but I recognize how silly and destructive and completely juvenile this attitude is. |
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For a moment it crossed her mind that what she was doing was juvenile and silly, but she had made up her mind. |
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There was a silly argument and Coleman took umbrage at Mr Clarke's tone of voice. |
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It was an immensely silly argument, and might be dismissed as the rantings of a second-rate polemicist. |
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We have a very silly situation whereby Queenstown and Taupo are able to open for business and we are not. |
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Apart from Rooney's rash moment, which even then was silly rather than truly incendiary, the players emerged with credit. |
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To claim that the global acceptance of a US passport somehow equals white imperialism is silly. |
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His hands were ever aflutter, shaking off invisible water, conducting an imaginary silly symphony. |
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That film was a tedious prank, a punk-assed joke that challenged the viewer to feel, then razzed anyone silly enough get involved. |
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In the grand old days of British Rail, a single train ticket was at least the same price as a return, often more, which was silly. |
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Projecting growth over a whole century for the entire planet is just plain silly. |
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I love that you point out the silly typos I continue to miss even after many read-throughs. |
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It invites us to join the melodrama, keying our responses to the silly excess of the movie itself. |
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I will stop being so silly and spontaneous and open towards everyone and everything. |
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Tragically, many of these kids claim they have been using keyboards and keypads for so long, the idea of writing with a pencil scares them silly. |
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You place your hand on his forehead, thinking Napoleon is going to look awful silly windmilling his arms while you yawn safely out of reach. |
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A great riff is what makes you make silly guitar noises while playing air guitar when you think no-one is looking. |
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Why return to a job that has little to offer by way of progression and that has managers who get paid silly money to do nothing? |
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For the most part the reader is in a world of adventure, wisecracking, silly and imaginative. |
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While not quite as enticing as sun-kissed meadows, those silly evenings are the ones I most look forward to. |
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Use a handle or nickname if you must but keep to the same one, it gets silly otherwise. |
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However, when you start to nitpick at really silly things, then I cannot help but to wonder about motive. |
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But nobody is forcing club chairmen to pay silly money for mediocre players. |
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Similar trickery explains why the Government wants to criminalise the wearing of face paint or silly masks on demonstrations. |
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It's so cold that going out without a woolly hat on is really a silly idea. |
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I really don't know how much it is worth, but they are talking about silly money. |
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It made you do silly things and it gave you an awful headache, but we never worried about the risks, let alone the long-term health consequences. |
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It was hard to determine if these young refs were too quick with the whistle or if the poor play resulted in a lot of silly fouls. |
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Tickets for that gig were changing hands for silly money, if I remember rightly. |
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If one of their coping strategies is to fetishise a few silly fashion labels, isn't that forgivable? |
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I just wanted to write that silly run-on sentence conflating all of his best-known stuff. |
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As she Xeroxes another copy, she chastises herself for thinking such silly thoughts for nothing of the sort could happen to her. |
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We've all heard about cases of silly money being asked for rights to certain films. |
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There's plenty more punning jokes like that, spouting from the crooked mouth of Harrogate Theatre's dimple-cheeky silly billy. |
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Sophie started to jog, thinking that this was silly, she was just cold, wanted a cup of cafe au lait and a warm cat curled on her feet. |
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This is a very good alternative crop for farmers and I do not want it to be jeopardised by some silly billies in society. |
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By presenting the song as high camp drama, the rather silly Satanic image of the Stones is thrown into relief. |
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Gone is the silly robot dog that I wanted to see yelping around with its leg in a bear trap. |
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They make danceable alt-rock of a persuasion that's as aggressive as possible without getting silly. |
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The dressing stations will be busy enough without having to patch up silly billies who didn't wear sensible shoes. |
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But then we are in the silly season, are we not to judge by newspaper news priorities. |
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Soon, when borrowing a book, you'll be able to specify how sexy or sad or silly or sentimental you'd like it to be. |
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The whole silly idea that I'd avoid lateness by tricking myself has just gotten too ridiculous. |
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It allows creative, lateral thinking, basically silly, saying the first thing that comes into your head, no great depth. |
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The author's name has caused untold hilarity among Britain's schoolboy humour forum, and I've laughed myself silly. |
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When my vision finally cleared enough to get a good look at the culprit, I focused in on the store manager who was laughing herself silly. |
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He seemed to be laughing himself silly at some of the jokes at his expense, but it may be that he's a good enough actor to fake enjoyment. |
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Jon and I have been watching this show every week with splendid abandon, laughing ourselves silly at a safe distance. |
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I laughed myself silly over her comparison of children to terrorists, and her tales of her domineering, movie star mother. |
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The silly, high-pitched voice samples add a little extra zest to the already heated battles. |
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However, only a few of the dozen-strong cast have the requisite style to make the parody trenchant instead of merely silly. |
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And if I've led you up the garden path just to give you a silly acronym by which to remember something simple and obvious, I'm sorry. |
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The silly rule about not splitting infinitives often creates unnecessary ambiguities. |
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We zoomed home alone along the sidewalk, singing a dozen variants of a silly song we had made up the day before. |
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Derek Underwood bowls the last ball of the day to Bernard Julien who plays defensively to Tony Greig at silly point. |
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Of course, the first silly fly to come anywhere close was now snapped up in a trice. |
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It got a bit silly and niggly at times as they tried to break us mentally and drag us down to their level. |
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Illingworth was content with two short legs, silly mid-on, slip and gulley as he wheeled away for less than one run an over. |
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Actually, most of her on-stage communists are just silly trendies, noisy young men with heads full of nonsense. |
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In fact, all I knew about Celtic folklore consisted of one silly story about a leprechaun. |
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Usually I don't eat potato but fish without chips by the sea would be silly and my son eats most of them. |
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Ian Bell, surrounded by a slip, gully, short leg and captain Ricky Ponting at silly mid-off, became Warne's second lbw victim for eight. |
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I can be playful, mischievous, or silly depending on how you look at things. |
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It involves alien abductions, extraterrestrials with very loud voices, and a lot of silly Feds running around looking conspiratorial. |
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Sourav Ganguly, once legendarily dismissive of spinners but now woefully out of form, was dropped by Younis Khan at silly mid-off. |
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For the next hour or two, they engage in serious debate, silly gossip or frivolous prattle. |
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For example a Rex with his silly behavior with a standoffish Russian Blue may not be the right combination. |
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And while the occasional privacy violation seems trivial, perhaps even silly to some readers, these abuses really do add up over time. |
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We have to adapt to their right-handed implements and look silly trying to use them. |
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However, it falters due to its desire to shoe-horn a palpably insincere message about love into the likeably silly plot. |
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And I had this thought, which I hope doesn't sound too silly or too frivolous or disrespectful of a disaster. |
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While the film may be silly and reductive and wonderfully miscast, it still can be used to examine racial stereotyping and white colonialism. |
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We all have certain silly tunes that linger in our memory but defy identification. |
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Sometimes it comes to you, but at Leeds it got a bit silly towards the end. |
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That is just frivolous and silly, and I ask the member to stand and withdraw and apologise for that comment. |
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He did not want her to make his feelings sound silly and ridiculous, even if her intentions were good. |
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Yes, it is the silly season, both locally and nationally, with little news worth reporting. |
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Brainball may seem like a ridiculously silly game, but it demonstrates how a machine can know something about your emotional state. |
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Men amused themselves in the mess by argufying sometimes about any silly subject. |
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The dude has been flat out like a lizard drinking all year and deserves some silly time. |
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Then, especially after I finally read the rough draft of the paper, I realized that was a pretty silly idea. |
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Some will smirk at such lofty aspirations, calling them silly, if not impossible. |
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Some companies were prepared to pay silly money just to tie up business with the big networks. |
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The seniors told us, the new students, to do a lot of silly things all day long. |
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It was the sort of old fashioned love that silly girls read about in those trashy novels. |
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He'd passed a herd of longhorns a curve-and-a-half back, along with those silly looking mini-donkeys he'd gaped at fifteen years ago. |
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Any sport where you bleed as a matter of course is a bit silly, if you ask me. |
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I asked quite silly and half asleep what he was doing home again when he sort of mouped that it was all closed and no one was there. |
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On a trash can outside was an empty silly string bottle, and a bit of green silly string on the lid, and it was still wet. |
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They may have over-eaten, in their desperation to assuage their hunger, or drunk themselves silly. |
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I think he was, in effect, trapped or tricked by the silly and dangerous set up which the highway authority had decided to institute. |
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But it's not automatically rendered trivial and silly, just because it's about a household animal. |
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That might sound unnecessarily silly or trivial, but it's been a serious point of contention. |
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Teenagers totally rejected adults and their silly pieces of sheet music, and started buying records in droves. |
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It was a silly digression, but one that's effective in showing him as a flummoxed lummox. |
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On paper, it does sound like sacrilege for this screen goddess to wear a silly hat, get drunk, and make a public scene. |
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Few things make you look so silly as luxuriating in a cart pulled by an elderly rickshaw in torn, worn-down slippers. |
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It's a testimony to them that the show has held up and held on as well as it has, even with all the recycled and silly plot machinations. |
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The sun was shining, the sakura were blooming, and about 20,000 people lay down in the grass around the castle moat and drank themselves silly. |
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But believe you me, that silly seventy dollars will fit in mighty nice this time of year in my cash-flow. |
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It's silly, but she is so adorable, and her seduction is inspired with such grace, that it makes a touching and subtle scene. |
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He has also been silly enough to make Kumble sit on the bench in many matches. |
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Because you're literally and figuratively always carrying a torch for me, silly. |
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By using plots that we are all familiar with, Hess is able to move seamlessly from silly set piece to silly set piece. |
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You think it's a silly and trivial innovation, well maybe, but who knows where it might lead. |
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For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense. |
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The experiments were trivial, downright silly you may say, but the theoretical implications may be profound. |
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Eventually I decided I'd be best off in my deep blue tankini and my blue-silvery sarong, I didn't want to look silly. |
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It's a deeply silly and trivial entertainment cheerfully devoid of any nutritional or calorific value whatever. |
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They were three points clear with time ebbing away when they began to panic and concede silly frees. |
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Mothers and fathers send out the message that boys are awkward, ungainly and silly. |
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It is loathed by some critics who find it patronizing, silly, and superficial. |
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She is silly, helpless, Irish, very poor, and 28 years of age. |
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It's a very bold move, and some would suggest a slightly silly one. |
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We got the deal up to a sensible level, but it was never silly money. |
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What a silly little purse. It looks too small to hold everything that I'd need to carry. |
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The 1996 filing was, naturally, as silly and frivolous as the boycott push that came before it. |
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Why not just create something utterly silly, artistically a bit pointless, but ultimately just fun to watch? |
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This great healing event for veterans has been pushed aside by a few ATV advocates insistent on illegally riding their silly toys. |
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But when the specious claims are directed at the parents of autistic children, the situation has gone from silly to malevolent. |
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And the baddies, who light up, regenerate body parts, and occasionally overheat and explode, are pretty silly. |
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He was duped into silly offensive fouls when smaller men moved in behind him as he powered toward the basket. |
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People ask and say silly, inappropriate, and bigoted things constantly on the Internet. |
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What Hume seems to not understand is that maybe folks are blasting him because he is making such silly assumptions. |
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But Kaku has made a second career out of this kind of boosterism, and it would be silly to expect anything different from him. |
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Selfies, like people, are often bothersome, silly, and apparently redundant. |
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It may seem silly, but absent an instruction sheet, how was he to know? |
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The host for the evening, MC Silky was great, making everyone feel welcome and relaxed, playing silly songs on his guitar and telling good jokes to warm the audience up. |
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Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath. |
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No, I am not saying that these three popular role models, who were exploited by Home Trade to make suckers out of the common man, must be punished for their silly mistake. |
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He had only gotten with her because she seemed to like him so much, and he was silly enough to believe all her promises of fidelity and acceptance of the situation as it was. |
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This classy rebuke shows that despite his penchant for silly social media, Vin Diesel is still not some one you want to mess with. |
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But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little. |
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Secondly, he is sitting upon a pitchfork and refuses to move himself, or thirdly he is a silly, juvenile incompetent and has no place in this Chamber. |
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Anyway it was his own silly fault for not reading what I wrote. |
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I cheat and air-kiss, which feels silly but frankly is all I can manage. |
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This may have excellent wonky credentials, or it may be one of those silly policy proposals that people only talk about because they can't think of anything that would work. |
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I remember we played some word association game for an hour and a half and then realised, when it had all got very silly, that we hadn't decided how it would end. |
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There, roads are generally free of cycle lanes, red or green painted patches, pedestrian refuges, traffic islands, widened pavements for cycle use and silly speed limits. |
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There was no shortage of schadenfreude, with Democrats joyfully noting just how dumb those silly, delusional Republicans were. |
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Too silly and too scripted, those segments paled in comparison to the ones that Handler helmed solo. |
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Personally, the silly, contrived plot comes as a welcome relief. |
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I did The Girlfriend Experience on film and Entourage on television, and to downgrade from that would be silly. |
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I didn't think that game was going to be a draw, and it would have been criminal had we drawn tonight and gone out because of a silly lapse of concentration. |
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The silent feature marked his move from silly comedies to the restrained and earnest dramas that would establish his reputation as a world-class filmmaker. |
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If the pollsters are overestimating Labour's support once more, the consequences of their blunders could leave a lot of leftish voters looking very silly. |
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An attempt at tragedy in the book's last quarter all but tips the book into oblivion with the revelation of a family secret so silly that Sunset Beach would reject it. |
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And should a silly, sometimes slight comedy like Veep be excised to include yet another harrowing drama, Rectify? |
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The reviewer writes about a silly question asked by a British interviewer. |
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It's plain silly to compartmentalize the disciplines, as if a botanist couldn't talk to an economist, a geologist to a rhetorician, or N. A. Chomsky to G. W. Bush. |
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You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world. |
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If they calmly endure his dumb questions and stubborn incomprehension they may end up looking silly, and if they show their irritation they risk coming across as jerks. |
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Each character is hideously depicted via limp dialogue, grating accents, silly lisps, unnatural body movements, and an overall disagreeable personality. |
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The clothes had a light and frothy quality but never looked silly or immature. |
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The Thomians, however, had plenty of chances of surging through to a lead but due to some silly mistakes and penalties being kicked astray, they lost that opportunity. |
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You silly lug, I thought you were only stupid about law, not everything! |
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Few questions, no matter how fun and silly, go by without circling back to their accomplishments or future projects. |
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The other one is silly and perhaps because of that even more cringe-worthy. |
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Would such a move even be possible in the hottest days of the silly season? |
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This results in at least one silly scenario that requires catching an enemy tank crew's attention while sneaking a lone sapper in with a shaped charge, Private Ryan style. |
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This is, inarguably, a small-minded and small-hearted way to look at things, even by the usual silly standards for sports fans. |
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Why then do they let themselves be shown as silly little scatterbrains, making the compromises, while the men romp all over the screen doing exactly as they please? |
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Some women will power through the flu, popping pills and drinking tea and disdainfully accusing any male silly enough to stay in bed as having a dose of man flu. |
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We made the same mistakes again, just silly schoolboy errors. |
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If Clark screws up, the establishment is going to look pretty silly. |
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We are outrageously sentimental, giving each other pet names, mash notes and flowers, and doing all sorts of things too silly to tell anyone else. |
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Put on your silly voice and pretend to be an upper class thicko. |
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She nodded her head, barely able to keep the silly grin from her face. |
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Her head was always filled with silly dreams of becoming a wealthy and respected matron, playing bridge with the Astors and acquiring Baroque art. |
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I don't deserve this and I am too mature to play silly emotional games. |
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But I live in a country ridden with religious overtures in every facet of life, of silly, stupid superstitions, traditions and beliefs that are senseless and illogical. |
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The film-makers have clung sentimentally to the sweet, silly formula that made the original series an enduring favorite for more than 33 years after its debut. |
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But nothing happens and soon Mariame is home, eating dinner with her two little sisters, laughing and acting silly. |
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If I do something silly and am found out, tooted at, or even before any reaction from a nearby driver, I raise a hand in apology and smile when the other person can see me. |
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Jests are silly, and some of the silliest are shaggy-dog stories. |
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I can play, I absolutely adore trampolining, I'm absolutely nuts about it, I cannot get enough of it, and I literally bounce myself silly on the trampoline. |
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It is conspicuously silly in places, with a chorus of Belfast millies incongruously inserted into the midst of the classical melodramatic and stylised family angst. |
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For someone who, in the past, has been rated as the best goalkeeper in the world, it bewilders me why he so often opts to do the silly as opposed to the sensible. |
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Mr. Bruce was a voice actor in many cartoons of the thirties, forties and fifties, most notably as the narrator of silly travelogues and newsreels. |
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One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes. |
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The questions, both silly and taxing, were demonstrated using party tricks and wheezes, then explained scientifically to lend the programme an educational edge. |
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Now that Laura has been revealed to be little more than a collection of notes, the debate seems silly, meretricious. |
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For the fans, it was a last outing for the tricolours, silly hats, squeaky hammers and giant inflatable hands that have adorned them and their homes for the past three weeks. |
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I've modeled for several male photographers who showed me the poses they wanted by doing it themselves, and most of the time, they looked about this silly. |
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They were obviously too busy to deal with their numerous, silly questions. |
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By way of explanation, it started with the silly riding actions, and someone suggested that the female in the group ought to be riding side-saddle. |
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Both camps, according to White House insiders, are silly twits. |
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I had assumed that everyone would understand my comment as a silly joke. |
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It's probably silly and frivolous, but maybe you want to respond. |
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None of these cost much or had much relevance but collectively, in a period where morale was weak, they were silly, petty little annoyances that were easy to avoid. |
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A variation of 0.2 degrees seems trivial and almost silly to worry about. |
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But she still worried herself silly every time a visit was coming up. |
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In many of the tales the fairies are tiny, silly, helpless creatures. |
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Soon after, he played a sharply rising ball as well as he could, off his ribs almost, and watched, relieved as it fell just short of silly mid-off. |
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The long hot summer and the silly season, as the British tabloids call the month of August, is upon us, and what better place to be than, say, the French Riviera. |
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Pity we get the silly season news without the weather to match. |
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It's the silly season, when there is little news of interest to expats. |
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They spend silly money on kids' clothes and birthday parties. |
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They were offering him silly money and he could not really refuse it. |
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Many ideas, like one from the guy who wanted to use an electric fan to blow against a windmill and generate power, are well intentioned but downright silly. |
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That's the silly thing about identity systems, their content is meaningless unless identity is assigned unambiguously and unchangeably at the moment of birth! |
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If you are silly enough to see all this as expanding individual choice, remember that as the boa constrictor tightens its grip the victim feels increasing euphoria. |
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This movie is a German import and is as silly as a two-bob watch. |
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They say that by the end he was as silly as a two-bob watch. |
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The ceremony is always too stuffy, unless it is way too silly. |
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I don't think there's any hope of repealing this city's silly parking bylaw. The genie is out of the bottle, sadly. |
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It's all very silly, despite the presence of Callow, Celia Imrie, Stephen Fry and Co but no doubt the kids will chortle at the rude noises. |
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Everyone knows from her hit TV shows that Dawn can do side splittingly silly but 30 Million Minutes wasn't a laugh a minute affair. |
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Jokes include popular and original jokes, funny one-liners, knock-knock jokes and silly tongue-twisters. |
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It's all gloriously silly stuff as po-faced vampire lore collides with the mundanities of the modern world. |
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There are no doubt people who will find the bit silly and insufferable. |
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There are clunking changes of tone, weak direction, a lack of energy in too many of the scenes and some silly choreography. |
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But subpar writing and silly sketches failed to earn her the applause. |
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