The notion that the country can sustain a capable defence force by mothballing equipment is laughable. |
|
His tirade against a society which he thinks is disenfranchising young men would be laughable if it were not so dangerous. |
|
Describing an object, sentiment or situation which is cute in a sickly, laughable, boring, old, shudderingly childish and overly sweet way. |
|
A good classic cheapie, with laughable monsters and breathtaking stock footage. |
|
Such desperate expressions of Scottishness could be laughable, but they betokened a serious condition. |
|
While it is not out of the question to golf year round in Vancouver, it is a laughable notion in Saskatchewan. |
|
The notion that a young person entering an apprenticeship or traineeship can bargain equally with a prospective employer is laughable. |
|
It then becomes laughable when the same publications are cited as examples of ideal behaviour. |
|
If you're a journalist for any period of time you get used to them and find them at best tedious and at worst laughable. |
|
But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful. |
|
The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable. |
|
Look at it enough and it's actually quite laughable, rather than lamentable. |
|
Now that I have seen the extended version I just need to point out another discrepancy, and a laughable one. |
|
The snub is laughable and something I just wrote to start me writing tonight. |
|
Of course that's laughable, because I never knew or cared where he stood on that. |
|
To think they would observe the spirit of the law and our democratic system is laughable. |
|
The idea that Liz wanted to pick a fight with her family was almost laughable if not insane. |
|
The idea that Strauss was a great defender of liberal democracy is laughable. |
|
Furthermore, the contrast with the burden put on the public-company sector has become laughable. |
|
Any idea that Stalin cared for public opinion in Russia is merely laughable. |
|
|
The idea that such an organisation is likely to have any sort of vision, let alone a long-term one, is laughable. |
|
Presumably the young women think it's just laughable, and it isn't seriously threatening you. |
|
In our scientific age with its rationalistic world view, the idea of a person being raised form the dead sees laughable. |
|
You know its trade-in value has become laughable, so who cares about its look any more. |
|
If I am wearing pantyhose, I double check to ensure there is no laughable bagging at the ankles. |
|
How laughable those comments were as England's finest marksman now begins to show his true self. |
|
The first aspect is laughable, the second scandalous and the third outrageous. |
|
Without doubt the ranting fustian of men vying for a woman makes the threat seem laughable. |
|
That fiction would be laughable were it not so dangerously resonant of totalitarian regimes against which this country once stood firm. |
|
When I heard this, it was a strain for me to keep a straight face, because seriously, the idea is laughable! |
|
So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone that I find most of it laughable. |
|
It seems laughable to conclude from these premisses that a and b are identical to some respect. |
|
The very idea of the present incumbent supporting a factory occupation is laughable. |
|
There remains some accelerative ability, though, and cruising is quiet when our laughable legal motorway limit represents under 2, 000rpm. |
|
It was laughable, but then what can be expected from politicians always on the make for a quick pic or plausible headline. |
|
I find it laughable now that at 25 I was having what essentially boiled down to a mid-life crisis. |
|
While the heroic Samoans earned the praise of rugby fans everywhere, England's credibility was made to look laughable. |
|
The risks are higher, the stakes lower and the goals would be considered laughable if so many lives were not at stake. |
|
My perception is that many people feel that the adoption process in this country is ridiculously ponderous if not downright laughable. |
|
As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results. |
|
|
But then I remembered I'm halfway around the world and the Greek and Cypriot history is rich enough that small insults or slights are laughable. |
|
Every track is just a rant delivered over a monotonous beat and the limited vocabulary would be laughable were it not so obscene. |
|
What's laughable is not the former dictator's skivvies, but military leaders' naivety about the media world we now live in. |
|
Assembling a motley crew of accomplices, their poorly conceived plans would be laughable were they not so deadly and, ultimately, tragic. |
|
His responses to criticisms of problems falling under his control border on the laughable. |
|
Trying to blame these problems on whites is laughable and is not helping your people at all. |
|
This I regard as quite ludicrous, and factually so removed from reality as be laughable. |
|
Every time a conservative pol gets caught in a racial mess, we hear the same weary and laughable tune. |
|
We dig in immediately, hacking a shallow shelf in the steep slope, hastily surrounding it with blocks of snow and throwing up our laughable A-frame pup tent. |
|
Democrats need to reflexively stomp on this one, because it is so laughable. |
|
That Huckabee is mentioned in the same sentence with other aspiring conservative governors, especially Bobby Jindal, is laughable. |
|
It was a laughable world with stultifying technological limitations that made half of society strabismic. |
|
The negotiations of the last few days have proved that it was nothing but a laughable process of haggling. |
|
Twenty years ago it would have been laughable to believe that English provincial cuisine could match French provincial cuisine. |
|
This kind of science is absolute nonsense and unscientific, and is truly laughable. |
|
Even five years ago, the idea of talking up the Australian capital's creative life and culinary achievements may have been laughable. |
|
Ashcroft found the weaknesses of the party leaders as voters drew laughable comparisons. |
|
It's not just Liberal politicians and apparatchiks that find something inherently laughable about Irish people. |
|
As an income support, it is too low and, as a child care measure, it is laughable, quite frankly. |
|
If there were not, behind your cries, blood and tears and behind your guilty absences, STILL MORE blood and tears, you would be merely laughable. |
|
|
This, however, is a far cry from the laughable measures proposed by the Commission and by this report. |
|
By creating this legislation, will we not soon find ourselves in a ridiculous position, bordering on the laughable? |
|
Most people would think it laughable to say that high school kids are more likely to be problem gamblers than adults. |
|
In three of those cases, the courtroom size would be laughable were it not for the total absence of security. |
|
Given that children smear food into their hair, their ears, along the table, and on you, the small area of protection afforded by the bib is laughable, really. |
|
Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable. |
|
The author of this nauseating palaver is obviously so in love with what he thinks is his own eloquent rhetoric that he fails to notice his laughable double entendre. |
|
After a tense, at times laughable chase, comes the kind of rah-rah moment that amps up the audience for the rest of the film. |
|
At which point you might be baffled by the laughable insensitivity, or unsettled and disgusted by this appropriation. |
|
This abominably weak link renders all passport security checks laughable. |
|
To state that most of them have only one income is in any case, laughable. |
|
Welsh's understanding of anything indigenous is laughable and insulting. |
|
The idea of raising an army from backwoods colonists seemed laughable. |
|
Complete with stilted dialogue and cringe-worthy background music, the whole thing would be laughable were it not so terrifying. |
|
Europeans actually get their sugar from sugar beets which is laughable. |
|
For those with a black sense of humour, it was a laughable suggestion. |
|
O'Toole's clear blue eyes and brittle voice flood with so much anguish and pain that even Pitt's fixed pout and the awful lines cannot make a laughable travesty of the scene. |
|
But however laughable our proclivity for questions, doubt, and endless theorizing, it is just as equally inevitable. |
|
The idea that you can change sexual orientation is laughable. |
|
In conclusion, I have addressed all the principal concerns set out in what I call this laughable motion, but by no means have I exhausted the list of accomplishments our government has achieved in the transport sector. |
|
|
To a Brisbanite this summer global warming seems all too real, but to a Melburnian it appears laughable. |
|
This amount is laughable and clearly inadequate. |
|
If the situation was not so serious it would be laughable. |
|
Obviously, the argument that that must not be negotiated in Parliament is laughable since we are talking about the harmonization of a provincial tax and a federal tax. |
|
His descriptions of Sen. Marco Rubio range from laughable to slanderous. |
|
These tactics are so crude, they are laughable. |
|
And wily would she deliberately assume this unbelievable, laughable mask of feminine ditziness and incapacity? |
|
And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. |
|
New methods, created for our jobs over time seemed laughable to me. |
|
It is so laughable because when it tried to put the Conservative mark on it, its own members came to me and said that I should keep the pressure up because their government made a huge mistake and they needed to go back. |
|
Let me give you a few examples of some of the more outrageous aspects of this. I'll deal with the ones that are laughable first, and then come to the horrifying ones. |
|
I am appalled at the arrogance of the Liberals who would suggest that our concern about a major industry which is suffering because of transportation inefficiencies, is a laughable motion. |
|
He has rounded on his accusers, calling the main prosecution witness a mad dog, and his wife's testimony laughable and the product of a mentally unbalanced mind. |
|
All the self-importance, bureaucratic inefficiency and laughable circuitousness of Whitehall is summed up in one balletic extension of his slender leg. |
|
All this would be laughable if it weren't for the grim statistics. |
|
The condemnation of the breakaway move by South Ossetia and Abkhazia is laughable hypocrisy, to say the least, in the light of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the recent EU decision on Kosovo. |
|
Such laughable but readily identifiable shamefulness at a natural process doesn't surprise Haslam. |
|
The one time ecowarrior is now the laughable pop god in a 'Black Devil Car', with only the moving, anti-Bush 'World That He Wants' to show what he's capable of. |
|
It would almost be laughable, if it were not such a serious issue. |
|
I am very aware that speaking here, in these comfortable and safe conditions, might appear to be laughable or even blasphemous to those who are suffering physically or whose nearest and dearest are. |
|
|
Both books, which have been floating around Zambia for a number of years, are attacks on the Jesuits and would be laughable if some sections of society here did not take them as gospel truth. |
|
The brazen jobbery surrounding the contracts for the headstones would be laughable, were it not for the subject: monuments to the men who suffered and died for their country. |
|
The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war. |
|
As rock's aristocracy celebrated in princely style Mancunian rapper Daz Sampson battled it out for Britain for one of the most laughable prizes in music. |
|
Brighton's ditziness has a long pedigree, going back to the construction of George IV's simultaneously breathtaking and laughable pleasure palace, the Brighton Pavilion. |
|
Dumbass This was the same night Rani was overhyping BA flight 326's preparations and I stopped taking any of it seriously and just revelled in the laughable sincerity. |
|
For the Conservatives, who came to power in 2006, to claim credit for more than two decades of dropping crime is as laughable as it is insupportable. |
|
The only laughable thing about the whole show was it has been billed as Britain's answer to The Simpsons, presumably because both Homer and Warren have beer guts. |
|