Sentences with phrase «ludicrous situation»

In the process of shoehorning characters into ludicrous situations, logic often falls by the wayside, as when Alice hits upon the idea of moonlighting as a sex worker.

Russell Crowe's performance is the only thing that prevents this from being a complete disaster, since his awful direction and the lame script turn the film into a Mexican telenovela for alpha males, with ludicrous situations, cheesy dialogue and Olga Kurylenko as an irritating caricature.

And we now have the obscenely ludicrous situation (thanks to this «Climate Action Plan») of [cash - strapped] schools and hospitals being forced to purchase «carbon offsets» — and a «smart - tool» to calculate their «carbon footprints».

It's easy to forget how ludicrous the situation is: You're letting the bank hold your money, but if you don't maintain the correct balance, they'll charge you a fee.

OPINION: The failure of Australia's energy policy has led to the ludicrous situation where Victoria is considering importing gas from the nation's overseas competitors.

Allan Fotheringham, whose writing graced the back page of this magazine for 27 years, has complained forever about the ludicrous situation where the head of state of this juvenile country lives far away across a large ocean.

We need to put an end to this ludicrous situation.

As storytelling, its simplistic characters and ludicrous situations would embarrass a ninth - grader shooting a short film on a digital phone.

The characters, though goofy, lazy, good for nothing stoners, are likeable and it's hilarious watching them banter back and forth and try to deal with such a ludicrous situation as a killer hand on the loose.

Nyoni not only captures the absurdist processes of this world, with men delivering verdicts on the women, she frames it with compositions that capture both the fierce spirit of her protagonist and the ludicrous situation she must make the best of.

Deadpool is also aware of the inherent silliness and ludicrous situations that come from the nature of superhero films.

It does have a lot of funny moments and ludicrous situations, but I never found myself really laughing that hard.

Smith's narrator's anxiety and recalcitrance are legion, but through her omnivorous senses, wary skepticism, and ballistic wit we experience vitally detailed settings and dramatic and ludicrous situations that put to the test assumptions about self and community, creativity and activism.

Getting student loans means the ludicrous situation of borrowing money without actually knowing that you can make the monthly payments.

This leads to the ludicrous situation in popular tourist spots where seemingly every second shop is a dive centre: Phi Phi Island has 30 dive centres.

It's a ludicrous situation.

But back in the world of the climate crisis, we find ourselves in the ludicrous situation of having to wage a battle to ensure that the Green Climate Fund (GCF) doesn't fund climate change.

But back in the world of the climate crisis, we find ourselves in the ludicrous situation of having to wage a battle to ensure that the Green Climate Fund doesn't fund climate change.

CCA's rigid determination to recommend little change is creating the ludicrous situation where the body is making itself irrelevant.

It's a ludicrous situation, ludicrous.»