Sentences with phrase «facetious in»

The melancholy of the work is offset by lighter moments, as rubber itself, being spineless and floppy, is facetious in nature.

I'm not being snarky or facetious in the least when I say that I'd rather re-watch the prequel trilogy and the Clone Wars CG film before even considering another viewing of TFA.

Before you get annoyed, I'm obviously being a little facetious in presuming to lecture you about the vaguaries of online communications, since you clearly intended to put your column in front of as many people as you could:

I know you were being facetious in calling for firing the LAUSD communications director, but I have to say that person is in a tough situation here, thanks to Jamie Oliver, and it would be yet MORE collateral harm wrought by him if that individual actually did lose his / her (I forget) job.

While I think Wright was being somewhat facetious in that comment, I realize I may have misrepresented his position... or at least overstated it... so last Wednesday, I reopened the conversation to see if you had any insights regarding this matter.

Not exact matches

One general problem with interpreting facetious remarks is to distinguish between things said in irony and things said at face value.

But to claim that such a viewpoint is what the Framers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution in 1787 is, as Justice Byron White noted in another context, «at best facetious.»

NathanL — «That I take great pleasure in being right — which, I presume, Bob was RIGHT in saying, and I'm assuming that he also took great pleasure in being so, seeing as he took the most facetious path possible in communicating this to me: the * third person *»

I return the charge: in that post aimed falsely at society, you were facetious, you did not engage with my points, you did not specify what exactly was wrong with my attitude, you psycho - analysed my words, you made broad sweeping generalisations.

Is not the exclusively sympathetic and facetious way in which most children are brought up today so different from the education of a hundred years ago, especially in evangelical circles — in danger, in spite of its many advantages, of developing a certain trashiness of fibre?

«Let others be a facetious as they want about chili, but for my part I would rather discuss it in the dignified tone that it deserves.»

(Disclosure: I'm being facetious, these guys are rock stars in the veggie blogging world)

A stupid, irrelevant and facetious answer which in no way tackles the question of exactly who funds football clubs.

BTW, in the unlikely event you actually find a more facetious man than I, would you mind introducing us!

Heywood Hale Broun's prerace interviews followed no discernible plan: a facetious chat with a couple of fluttery lady owners who might have stumbled in from the kennel club for all they had to tell us, an indepther with a chap from Notre Dame who took a full minute (by my sundial) to decide why he was there at all.

I read the ad as facetious, in the same tongue - in - cheek tone as the Budweiser Real Men of Genius commercials.

I have personally come to the conclusion that what we need is a hypnosis event of the masses to help avert our minds from this constant barrage of junk food sales (lol)-- and, of course I am being facetious and tongue in cheek, but honestly... How does a person circumvent the constant sales and availability of this highly - processed junk food marketing that has invaded so many aspects of our daily lives and is so heavily represented in fundraising?

The latter portion of that statement is a bit facetious, considering that Democrats have 100 members in the Assembly and are in no danger of losing the majority.

... I'm being a bit facetious, but there it is in the Bible.»

I'm facetious person... I live my life in my own way, I'm very kind hearted very friendly, loving and caring person, I love those people who loves me, i hate lies more then anything else.

An eight - part fantasy epic with a dead - serious tone — and the unusual goal in these facetious movie days of being iconic, not ironic — the Harry Potter films of course had the benefit of a bedrock constituency: the tens of millions of worldwide fans of J.K. Rowling's wizardly septology.

In 2008, Pineapple Express saw Franco slip into the skin of a laid - back weed dealer alongside Seth Rogen — a facetious role for most, but one that he embodied brilliantly.

So is this truly the «most ambitious crossover event in history,» as the facetious meme suggests?

The comment was somewhat facetious, but it underlined a curious fact: not only are most film - lovers unaware of Freed's huge influence on Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Singin «in the Rain, and the 40 - odd other films produced by his unit, but the very roles of producer and production unit have been little studied by film historians, much less commented on by theorists and critics.

This year, Bette Midler even joined in on the conversation with a (facetious) explanation.

They're all the nicest monsters ever, and I don't mean that in a facetious way.

The earlier reference to Brian Griffin wasn't just facetious: Stark is so much like Brian (from a sense of superiority to a nearly identical voice) that seeing the actor in the flesh just feels kind of weird, like a reverse uncanny valley.

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Yes, I'm being facetious, but Happythankyoumoreplease in English in the Galapagos right before bed happened.

I made a facetious comment that in no way was supposed to rile people up like this and I am getting tired of this discussion where I am constantly getting blamed for things I didn't really do

Being a teenager can be rough, and I'm not saying that in the facetious way adults sometimes do.

Jen Scoville, «Rauschenberg's Repartee: Facetious Facets of the Retrospective in Houston,» Texas Monthly, 1998.

By the opening, 17 public - art stations dotted Munich's centre; all slightly facetious interventions in a city where most confrontations occurred decades ago.

While it may sound facetious to claim that Kline didn't make much use of color in these paintings, his use of black and white is unimaginative, programmatic; comparisons to de Kooning's black - and - white abstractions are devastating.

If there was at least humour in Wolfgang Tillmans's placement of a high - viz Nike hightop in a vitrine next to a wall text from the permanent displays on «Cultural Change through European Influences», it was nevertheless facetious.

«If we wanted to be slightly facetious,» wrote critic Michael Glover, «we could call it history in the making.

I'm about to go out and ride my new bamboo bicycle... and no I'm not being facetious, I really do have a bicycle with a bamboo frame which I picked up in Brazil.

So, let's make our slightly facetious point first — i.e. in the spirit of those who demand we only speak about what our qualifications entitle us to speak of.

I don't mean to be facetious, but I'm having real trouble with an infrequent excursion in stable system being more than casually due to single cause.

There are only eight words in the English language in which all the vowels are in alphabetical order, most of which are seldom used today: abstemious, facetious, arsenious, abstentious, acheilous, anemious, caesious, annelidous.

The Onion has written a particularly compelling parody of the effects of Akin's statement.3 In the facetious fiction, a woman conveys her gratitude to Rep. Akin for relieving her of the painful burden of thinking she had been raped.

The creative profiles a facetious young boy boasting about the characteristics of his home, only for viewers to find out it's not in fact his, because his family was never shown the place.