Sentences with phrase «borderline silly»

Robert Brown: «Bear in mind that IMO it is borderline silly to do stat mech on an atmosphere in the first place — it is only useful to answer «formal» questions like those addressed in Velasco like «what is true thermal equilibrium given thus and such conditions» and even there the computations are enormously difficult and require a variety of basically inconsistent or non-ergodic assumptions to be made.»

It's always cheeky and borderline silly, and any game about a dead Japanese warrior that manages to work in a quote from Anchorman is doing something right in my book.

Slotting in just beneath the gorgeous V90 wagon, the V60 loses little of its big brother's looks in its transition to the middle of the market, and will be offered with a borderline silly T8 plug - in hybrid drivetrain that offers 386 horsepower and one metric boatload of torque.

Still a hoot, though the booming exhaust tone I enjoyed years ago now seems borderline silly, and you are aware at all times of the car's hefty 3,700 pounds.

How does this borderline silly premise stand as a movie?

Whenever Alton interacts with anyone besides his parents, Lieberher's attempt to appear as if from another, more developed plane is more often flat and borderline silly than foreboding.

I'm neither complex nor simple; hard or soft... I'm serious with a funny, borderline silly side.

Those sorts of questions are much more interesting and useful than questions about whether a particular politician should accept paid speaking engagements, and certainly more important than the borderline silly question of whether money that was accepted in good faith ought to be paid back.

Not exact matches

The game is crazy, the dialogue is borderline insane, the voice acting is hit - and - miss, the physics were broken when I played it (but fixed now), and the story is very silly — but I'll tell you one thing... It's a lot of fun!

The dialogue is silly albeit well - written, the humor borderline crass and the puzzles are occasionally obstuce enough to remind me of classics in the genre.

It seems almost silly in some ways, and to some Dot Earth readers borderline irresponsible, to spend time focusing on the day when astronomers spot a rock the size of, say, a hockey rink — or if we're less lucky a city block — slinging around the Sun in an orbit and on a timetable that could cause it to smash into Earth.