Sentences with word «facetiousness»

A revolution then happens, and it is handled with the same facetiousness of a love story in which characters fall in love through first sight — more fitting to musicals than the operatic reality achieved in the first act.

/ insert maximum levels of facetiousness here /

Facetiousness aside, it's good to win.

I don't think inspiration comes from even from facetiousness about insanity.)

[40] If I may be forgiven for that lapse into facetiousness, I would simply remind any parties who feel disadvantaged or abused by the fact that their out - of - town counsel are required to personally travel here, that this city is home to a large number of very able and competent lawyers and law firms and those parties may wish to consider the option of retaining local counsel as an alternative.

Dickens» energy and facetiousness leavened A Christmas Carol enough to make it bearable.

Hodges doesn't shirk his duties, and though the film lapses too often into easy facetiousness, much of it feels surprisingly substantial.

My untenable demand approaches Pretty Woman with the same sneaky facetiousness Disney's Touchstone Pictures distributing arm did back in 1990.

Facetiousness aside: libido — lack of sex drive — is also a strong sign that you should bump back to maintenance.

I guess you didn't detect the facetiousness from the article, especially the first several sentences... I don't think they take any more seriously than the rest of us do.

No facetiousness here.

Plain text doesn't convey the facetiousness of my initial post!

Though it's a loud, vulgar, and occasionally brutal comedy, it never succumbs to the fashion for facetiousness: Clint Eastwood always takes his work seriously, even in a relatively impersonal project like this, and there are moments of moving emotional candor amid the slapstick, flashes on loneliness, forgiveness, and loyalty.

But as late as 1981, when Arneson was shown with five other like - minded California ceramic sculptors in the Whitney Museum exhibition, Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, there was a backlash, with New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer singling out Arneson as dominated, «by a gruesome combination of bluster, facetiousness and exhibitionism — plac [ing] a fatal limit on what his gifts allow him to accomplish, or even to conceive.

Setting aside all facetiousness for the moment (not easy in the face of Lady Bate Dudley of 1787), I wonder if there is a serious debate to be had here that goes beyond connoisseurship of technical wizardry, the depiction of character and the play of light, that would relate in some way to making abstract art (which is why we are here, after all).

Please forgive my facetiousness.

If you will pardon a bit of facetiousness, if the trend of five times population growth continues, in the future, every lawyer will have one client each and the lawyer's income will depend on the income of the client, of which the lawyer will take half.