Sentences with phrase «becoming ludicrous»

It is all becoming ludicrous.

The more often the voice returns, the more fantastic the film gets without ever becoming ludicrous or giving up its sweet sense of humor.

While in one sense I admire my generation's persistence and diligence, the intense competition has become ludicrous — so much so that it has caused a shift in the education system.

All of this becomes ludicrous until the proper procedure is followed.»

Not exact matches

It's considered glamorous to drop out of a selective college if you want to become the next Mark Zuckerberg, but ludicrous to stay in to become a social worker.

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

Your statement that we would see monkeys becoming human before our eyes is completely ludicrous.

As mainstream television news became weather - hysteric after Hurricane Katrina, the sports talk radio world was indulging in one hysteria after another, all surnamed «- gate,» of which Deflategate was the most ludicrous in breadth, depth, and length (if not necessarily in, er, volume).

When multiculturalism becomes a form a hostile separatism with strong culturally conservative aspects, it's ludicrous to assume that the universalist, progressive left should be automatically sympathetic, though I'm afraid some do, or at least did when I was exposed to a fair amount of this nonsense on campus in the 80s and early 90s.

The parson's speech was perhaps in itself ludicrous enough, but it became infinitely ludicrous by its effect, and yet this consequence was quite natural.

The situation really has become quite ludicrous and I doubt there can many left who don't believe it is only a matter of time before the axe finally falls.

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.

Yet these are becoming the rules and they are ludicrous for many families.

But the idea that a child will suddenly become sociable when put into a group of perhaps twenty other children is frankly ludicrous.

Since when has vetting an appointee in Mr. Gromack's administration become «ludicrous ``?

«The danger of feminism, the danger of constantly putting near the top of agenda that there ought to be more women and more women in this and that sphere of our life, is that you balance over and you become slightly ludicrous,» he said.

The 10 - term senator from Syracuse kept the piles of accusations and actuarial estimates as proof of how ludicrous he thought it was for so many state leaders, union officials and local news outlets to take Destiny USA developer Robert Congel's word that Carousel Center mall would become a vacation destination with a hotel tower, an indoor Erie Canal and a renewable energy research park.

They become less wracked by indecision when facing the classic moral dilemma in which one person must be sacrificed to save many; they reject out of hand what they perceive to be a ludicrous choice.

(Groan) It probably won't be long before that ludicrous idea becomes a reality.

Even Graham, the ludicrous new - age shyster ex-boyfriend of Oliver's mother (Paddy Considine), becomes a sympathetic figure: a lost bohemian gone bust.

The action sequences are ludicrous, the werewolves mostly just bounding, then bounding again, while the vampire trick of just moving ever so fast soon becomes just ever so tiresome.

Written by Mark Perez and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein — who cowrote «Horrible Bosses» and «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone» and helmed the 2015 «Vacation» — it starts out borderline ludicrous and keeps piling on improbabilities, until it leaves our world behind and become an exercise in absurdity.

Whereas The Accountant — which becomes even more ludicrous than Girl is as it nears its climactic finale — somehow still works.

What starts out teasingly moody, however, about the ramifications of a horrible incident — shades of «The Sweet Hereafter,» still Egoyan's best film — becomes baroque and ludicrous as the Hitchcockian scenario loses its psychological bearings in a web of trashy plot twists and self - conscious jumps in time.

Becomes baroque and ludicrous as the Hitchcockian scenario loses its psychological bearings in a web of trashy plot twists and self - conscious jumps in time.

As the story gets more ludicrous, so, too, does the action, with obstacles so silly the mission becomes pointless.

Now the ludicrous tale — which meanders from Earth to outer space from medieval times to the future and is as absurd as Justin Bieber covering a Beatles tune or «Inside Edition» NOT covering the Jennifer Lopez / A-Rod thing — continues through an incredible plot contrivance in which the «good» Autobot Optimus Prime (voice of Peter Cullen, a veteran of the franchise) becomes a «bad» robot once he is spellbound by Quintessa and convinced Cybertron can be rebuilt from the ashes of Earth with the use of Merlin's (yes, the Merlin from Arthurian legend) magical staff.

Each plot point in The Glass House becomes increasingly ludicrous, using logic defying twists and turns that can only be present in movies like this.

Shyamalan is now making «Shyamalan pictures» — and the question of the hour becomes how much one punishes an exquisitely crafted film for being trite, predictable, ludicrous, and self - important.

Ines, trapped, plays along, becoming progressively more frazzled as she struggles to negotiate a major business deal in spite of these ludicrous distractions.

The first half of the film, involving an apprentice being schooled in the art of large - scale plate photography, is engrossing and fresh, but the back half becomes exceedingly strained and artless, the conclusion is empty and ludicrous at the same time.

Their romance, which is ludicrous by any reasonable standard, becomes a touching part of the film.

After the grim uncertainty of From Russia with Love and the classic iconography of Goldfinger, Thunderball is more than content to let a suddenly - enormous budget ($ 9M compared to Goldfinger's $ 3M) carry it far, far over-the-top with ludicrous underwater battles and pieces of gadgetry that become full - blown set - pieces in and of themselves.

The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change) in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise prices accordingly!

As someone who has sunk countless, countless hours into the original two Battlefront games and spent equally ludicrous amounts of time becoming as good as I could be with the legendary Heroes and Villains in order to chop down the enemy, I've been waiting a long time to see the franchise brought back to life.

They quickly hit upon the idea of a Restricted list for cards (cards that could not be used in tournament play), to weed out the ludicrous cards, but the play environment was still too fast, and worse, the sheer number of interactions that were available in the pool was becoming impossible to track and design for as new expansions rolled in.

One might notice I didn't talk as much about exclusivity here, but the fact of the matter is that when Microsoft revealed all of their draconian policies for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 became the default choice; it was up to them to woo me away from Sony and back to their side, and they failed miserably at it, as nothing they showed could overcome their ludicrous list of ridiculous restrictions and pretentious policies.

Although it may seem ludicrous to include real world pain as a selling point, it has become a reasonably well known game, evidently tapping into that testosterone - fuelled part of the male psyche.

Call of Duty and Battlefield might have battle royale modes because of course they will, Quantic Dream are suing some publications, and UEFA and Konami part ways.Rich has been giving The Swords of Ditto a go, Colm enjoyed his time with the ludicrous Chuchel, and Detroit: Become Human's demo has left the crew with some concerns.

For me, when imagined in this perfectly ludicrous context they become deeply mysterious, metaphysical; pseudo-spiritual relics out of sync in our world.

I see no difference between what is happening in the climate change debate courtesy of nutters like Lew and Oreskes and what is happening in the wider community, where the unwitting use of politically incorrect words and phrases is increasingly becoming the subject of ludicrous and lengthy official investigations which amount to little more than officially sanctioned witch hunts.

Though Inhofe has said ludicrous things about climate science many times before, he rarely mentions why he initially became such a zealous climate denier.

Which of course, ludicrous to the ears of any who know the difference, has now become an invisible container around the Earth against which these ideal gas molecules bounce when they are not bouncing off each other in elastic collisions and so «thoroughly mixing»..

This hypothesis has always seemed ludicrous to me ever since I became aware of it.

To the extent that their lawsuit has focused a spotlight on how ludicrous the rating of attorneys (and judges) has become, more power to them.

But it would be ludicrous if a barman suddenly became persuaded for religious reasons that serving alcohol was wrong, and then be able to demand that the employer allow him to serve only orange juice, leaving the rest of the bar staff to deal with everything else.

While observing that the rating of attorneys (and judges) has become «ludicrous,» U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik ruled that the opinions expressed through Avvo's ratings system are absolutely protected by the First Amendment.

The motivation for the (losers) to become realtors in the first place is the ludicrous amounts of commission paid to a realtor for a real estate transaction!

You know, all the experts suggest that becoming fit is really more of a lifestyle change, not just following some ludicrous fad diet product.