Sentences with phrase «almost ludicrous»

«It seems almost ludicrous that the Fed will just stick to the plan it had in the fall, to start a rate - hike campaign in the middle of 2015.

The feature list for Sony's flagship 2.1 soundbar is so long, it's almost ludicrous.

Right now you just have royalty type provisions, which I think are almost ludicrous in their application to the 21st century in terms of the way business is being done,» says Gartner.

It now seems almost ludicrous.

To me that is almost a ludicrous answer, but what happens then is that we get into discussions about modelling, and these lead nowhere.

Some inclusions seem almost ludicrous, given certain rather obvious absences.

Packed to the brim with content, its almost ludicrous just how much Hello Games has packed into this one title.

If you do happen to get spotted while hiding in the undergrowth then you might think that its game over, but that's not the case as Snake can actually take an almost ludicrous amount of punishment.

Radio, TV and print media spend a lot of time and money telling me what a lot of people are doing that is so totally unimportant that it is almost ludicrous.

(This is despite the almost ludicrous manner by which Alicia and Devlin fall in love, as it seems to happen entirely during the pair's trip from the States to Germany.)

Cosmology calls for almost ludicrous levels of optimism in the face of complexity.

Although it may not seem like it in this crazy transfer window, # 50m is still a lot to spend on any player, and this figure becomes almost ludicrous when you realise you are paying # 50m for Ross Barkley.

The contrast with present - day attitudes is so extreme as to be almost ludicrous.

... As a Canadian looking south it seems almost ludicrous to watch the childish interaction of USA citizens about the healthcare question... Most of the developed countries especially Western and European countries have enjoyed top healthcare for its polulations for anywhere from 60 years to over a century... Why the USA refuses for once to look beyond it «s borders is a complete mystery to the outside world....

The groans of others which come across as lacking any empathy are almost ludicrous.

I find all this, after thinking about it for some seventy years, almost ludicrous in its begging of questions and failure to make coherent sense.

So little by little he succeeds in forgetting it; in the course of years he finds it almost ludicrous, especially when he is in good company with other capable and active men who have a sense and capacity for real life.

Add to that the selective editing, copying and rewriting of his account, and it becomes almost ludicrous to put any stock in them.

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Hamann's humor consists so much in ludicrous involutions of thought and language, and in the cumulative effect of one absurdity heaped atop another, and in the almost sweetly earnest obliviousness of a voice like that of a holy fool that one must almost entirely immerse oneself in his imaginative world in order to enjoy the fruits of his comic genius.

That is ludicrous, especially in a league that has no winter break, and your body is almost certain to break down.

The recent Iheanacho situation has taken West Ham's transfer dealings to a new level of absurdity and, for me, illustrates a collective, disconnected incompetence that is almost too ludicrous to grasp.

Walcotts looking for obscene wages but who can blame him for looking for 40/50 grand more than Squillachi, Chamakh, Bendtner and Diaby... question is how they are on 50 per week in the first place, ludicrous considering we cudnt give Song a payrise yet these guys who havnt merited any wage in my opinion are on drastically inflated wages, which also now makes it almost impossible to get rid of these guys as a result and they can now sit on their arses costing us a fortune and they leave for free at their contract end.

There are so many other factors involved in parenting it's ludicrous to suggest that one can be the reason for almost anything.

Kendra, who blogs under the name of Ludicrous Mama, is quite possibly my # 1 fan, having posted almost 70 times -LRB-!)

It's ludicrous, and we see the horrible consequences every day in almost every cloth diaper group you can find.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said, «It is ludicrous that after almost three years of failure to deliver on its campaign promises, the Buhari Presidency is now moving around, cap in hand, looking for those to use once again to beguile Nigerians ahead of the 2019 elections.»

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Thursday, said it is ludicrous that after almost three years of failure to deliver on the littlest of its campaign promises, the Buhari Presidency is now moving around, cap in hands, looking for those to use again to beguile Nigerians ahead of the 2019 elections.

On one level, this film's premise is ludicrous, presenting Alice as a woman with an almost supernatural ability to learn new vocations and adapt to new situations.

Ryan Engle's slack screenplay tries to build in further tension through a ludicrous conceit that gives the bad guys just 90 minutes to carry out their plan (hey, that's almost the exact length of this movie!)

Worse, though, are the growingly ludicrous actions and inactions of almost every character in the movie.

X-Force might not be as ludicrous as Deadpool but there will almost certainly be a similar sense of humor.

Directing a Shakespeare movie in order to audition for the job of helming Assassin's Creed seems ludicrous, but with both Fassbender and Cotillard also starring in the latter, it almost appears as if that's what happened.

And now, in Knowing, Cage takes his taste for ludicrous material all the way — almost, but not quite, into the pantheon of films so utterly, preposterously awful they're destined for some kind of perverse cult appreciation.

Somehow getting the movie's ludicrous, brilliant premise across almost immediately, it sells the film's baroquely funny, Bunuel - ian tone extremely effectively, shows the star power on display (Whishaw!

It almost feels like a sin to take delivery of a shiny new Aston Martin DB9 in the midst of one of the worst economic disasters in the history of the country, but it seems even more ludicrous to turn down time behind the wheel of one of the most gorgeous cars on the road, so we spent a weekend cruis

With its acceleration set to Ludicrous Plus mode — an almost secret setting in the infotainment system that triggers a warp speed - style animation to appear before it's engaged — the top - spec Model S accelerates from 0 - 60mph in 2.5 sec.

While it's true that 214 miles per hour is a ludicrous stat to be boasted by a street car, when there's 887 horsepower and 944 lb - ft of torque on tap one almost expects such gaudy performance figures (including a 0 -60-mph time of 2.5 seconds).

Obviously into ludicrous territory, judging by the AFX: LN share price today... up almost +50 % (on no news) since this post!?

It's clear from almost the start that Amita and Sabal aren't great leaders or people you should be handing control of a country too, yet you'll be forced to choose between them regardless, continuously grimacing at the ludicrous nature of the conundrums laid before you.

Yes, this was immediately following an almost unprecedented backlash against Star Wars Battlefront II's heroes being locked behind ludicrous requirements, which piled on top of the already - in - discussion loot crate fiasco.

Majesty: Fantasy Kingdom Sim almost brings back the long hours of building up your civilization at ludicrous speeds and then totally annihilating your enemy.

Additionally, it's only playable with an internet connection, which seems like a ludicrous caveat when you've already paid almost # 8.

Positing that there have been any times with zero volcanic aerosols is almost as ludicrous as positing there is no water vapor feedback; neither compares with trying to use them as the basis for a long winded attempt at justification for a wished for «safe» climate sensitivity.

To say that the pre-satellite humidity trends are correct, despite the many changes in instrumentation, despite the changes in spatial and temporal resolution (but still almost no ocean coverage), despite the known problems with NCEP model bias, and despite that it has been wrong throughout the satellite era... well, it's ludicrous.

Sandberg said a lot of things in his fake keynote, but almost all of them were simply to poke fun at Zuckerberg, Facebook, and to introduce amusingly ludicrous features.

The Pixel XL is almost the same size as the iPhone 7 Plus, which is known for its ludicrous bezels, while the explosive Galaxy Note 7 crammed in a larger display into a smaller body.

We might know almost everything about the new Galaxy S8, but images of Samsung's upcoming flagship handset continue to leak at a ludicrous pace.

Glad to see that for a guy / gal who routinely dismisses me as a lightweight with ludicrous ideas and statements, you pay so much attention to my words... almost as soon as I submit them... otherwise you would ignore me and this conversation would not be ongoing.