| 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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| In the darkest days of the Dark Ages, no superstition surpassed this one for silliness, fatuousness, or just plain ignorance. |
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| Expressions of humor through silliness, nonsense words, or rhymes particularly enthrall preschoolers. |
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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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| I have been conducting an experiment aimed at analysing the intensifying silliness, stupidity and vacuousness of the world. |
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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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| The government, purveying seriousness, can now be affronted with silliness. |
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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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| I will dismiss the silliness of the notion for the moment, and run with the premise. |
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| They have a great 'believable couple' rapport that is ripe for dry silliness. |
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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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| His movies seem to be replete with great ideas hampered by wild mood swings of stupidity or silliness. |
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| The constant barrage of earnestly delivered silliness should win over even the hardest hearts. |
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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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| His embarrassingly manufactured cameo only adds to the lame silliness of the scene. |
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| The problem is the script, which never once pauses to consider its own essential 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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| Two years ago, such an observation was appropriately arch, zeroing in on the silliness of such campaign press stunts. |
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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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| So, what has the dizzy blonde been doing, besides the usual clumsy bumping into things, talking rubbish and general silliness? |
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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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| The keynote of unbelievability and twee silliness is established right there. |
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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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| 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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| So I think it's probably a bit of silliness caused by a trick of the light. |
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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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| These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| But the reaction to this bush-league silliness seems to me very interesting. |
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| The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting. |
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| Not for a moment does the book flinch at the silliness of its high jinks. |
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| The chief clerk of the bank, Mr Bent, hates Moist on sight as a committer of that worst of sins: silliness. |
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| The Fools physical comedy, is a perfect mixture of energy, silliness and fun making it a delight for audiences of all ages. |
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| The program, which was a send-up of panel shows, was noted for its word play, ribaldry, and plain silliness. |
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| If you're like me, you might now find yourself in the mood for pure silliness, undiluted by terror. |
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| It's worth noting that the silliness and humour of the scene belies some real and very effective pOlice work. |
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| Resolving conflicts without blame, with a healthy portion of silliness and fun. |
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| Dismay at the cruelty in the world, laughter at the silliness of our so-called leaders and wonder at the marvel of enduring love. |
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| Without any silliness, we have to care for the details of modesty, respect our body, put it at the service of God, dress appropriately. |
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| All you need is a digital camera and a bunch of crazy hats, glasses, tiaras and other costume silliness. |
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| She is Occult Wisdom, a wisdom that looks at the Magician at its left and laughs at his silliness and pretension. |
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| They now target the Bible's claim that the universe was created in six 24-hours days as pure silliness. |
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| The film draws a narrative parallel between sadness and silliness, which generates humour. |
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| Amy Zimmerman on the ridiculous plot, over-the-top tone, and unabashed silliness viewers seem to love. |
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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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| Burlesque is the voice of irreverence, low humour, plain silliness. |
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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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| Yesterday, I wrote about the silliness of requiring a file clerk to have a college degree. |
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| People are hurting, people died, and the time for silliness, debate, and procedural motions is over. |
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| I could provide chapter and verse as to the silliness of energy independence. |
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| As a debate, this was a sideshow, 90 minutes of stilted silliness, an intermission interrupting the real deal. |
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| Elizabeth is often upset and embarrassed by the impropriety and silliness of her mother and three younger sisters. |
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| Imagine if we added a bit more silliness, extra sassiness and the dust from ground-up unicorn hooves. |
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| In the elated, or manicky phase, people may show excessive excitement or silliness, carrying jokes too far. |
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| Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness. |
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| If you both sashay past her and not react to her silliness, she'll get bored and go away. |
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| Viewers will be split between those who wonder about this silly, trumped-up story and those who already know and love the silliness for what it was. |
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| I was a true phrasemonger. I could not say a plain thing in a plain way. Simplicity, that one sure feature of truth, was to me sheer silliness. |
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| Not to be outdone, Snoop Dogg, normally a dapperly dressed rapper, decided to do his bit for silliness with a stetson. |
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| Any extra fantasy outside the cardinal assumption immediately gives a touch of irresponsible silliness to the invention. |
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| The omnipresence of Muzak, the endless silliness of cellphone rings, and the insistent roar of traffic make it harder for us to recall the true place of music in our lives. |
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| Without a doubt, Canadians would all benefit from a greater understanding of the underlying value of Question Period, even with all its high drama and apparent silliness. |
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| Hopefully some participants at the event and others who read about the event married the silliness of what they witnessed with an ounce of stock market history. |
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| The sudden appetite for U. S. dollars may just be an excuse to flush out excess longs in the grains sector to better prepare itself for July weather market silliness. |
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| It is silliness to think that the Government of Canada is afraid to disrupt local labour markets because of paying a higher rate of pay in Newfoundland. |
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| The party breaks up in a flurry of dancing and silliness and romance. |
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| Launching an international equity fund on September 30, 2008 was either an exercise in silliness or brilliance as seen from an external perspective. |
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| Little kids love its energy and silliness, while even the grouchiest geezer can figure out how to drive a go-kart. |
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| Startling in his economy, he sees into his characters and their capacity for contradiction and silliness and despair with a clarity that staggers me. |
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| Yet the silliness of the run on petrol underlines a problem that is not silly at all. Britain's coalition government is committed to devolving power away from Westminster and towards elected mayors and police commissioners. |
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| We could laugh at the silliness and corniness of A Mighty Wind. |
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| I'm more fond of the doubleness in puns, especially flagrant puns, when the punster knows and registers the silliness of what he's just said, which good punsters do. |
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| Since their debut single Teenage Dirtbag hit the airwaves, its sugar-pop silliness and irresistible catchiness have infected everything within hearing distance. |
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