Sentences with phrase «ludicrous situations»

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.

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

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

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.

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

Her admiration for [her brothers» fiction], her interest in human behavior,... her moral intensity and love of elegance, jokes, puns, ludicrous situations, ironic remarks and even her delight in accurate language and in the touching impossibilities of popular fiction were fed by her brothers» Oxford journal.

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.

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.

The Big Lebowski is the funniest movie ever created, the Coen Brothers deliver one of their best movies about a slacker caught up in a case of mistaken identity that leads him into a ludicrous situation involving kidnap.

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.

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».

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.»

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.

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Calling the situation we have with two princes and two paupers «competition» is ludicrous.

First think Aaron has to do is dispense with that ludicrous pirouette he tries every other time he has the ball — often in the daftest situations.

The recent Iheanacho situation has taken West Ham's transfer dealings to a new level of absurdity and, for me, illustrates a collective, disconnected incompetence that is almost too ludicrous to grasp.

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.

Their decisions do change when the situation reaches a ludicrous point; I was once left with a loan on which I was paying 2 % over base when the base rate was 15 %.

Life felt ludicrous, but I felt I couldn't leave these situations for a multitude of reasons.

The situation with brown sugar shows how ludicrous the agave nectar marketing is.

... the situations are just so ludicrous that it really detracts from the quality of the special effects...

On one level, this film's premise is ludicrous, presenting Alice as a woman with an almost supernatural ability to learn new vocations and adapt to new situations.

Even if one makes allowances for the comic book aspects of the story and the required suspension of disbelief, there is something ludicrous, to put it mildly, about the assertion that seeing an African king possessed of superhuman strength and agility back - flipping across the screen speaks in some profound way to the situation facing the masses of people, black, white or any other epidermal pigmentation.

Carrie Coon is paired nicely with Affleck as his blunt twin sister who acts like an external conscious, reminding everyone of the ludicrous nature of the situation.

With the most ludicrous of situations, no real laughs and its inability to decide if it wants to be a dramatic comedy or comedic drama or whatever, Identity Thief could be titled «Time and Money Thief,» since it is an apt description of what the viewer will suffer by seeing this most disappointing picture.

The dialogue and situations are so ludicrous, that only a self - aware, campy delivery could possibly have made them palatable.

The problem, though, much of it is supposed to be taken deadly serious, but the situations are so patently ridiculous, the acting is so far over the top, the characters are so cliché and the denouement so violently ludicrous that one has no choice but snicker their way through this drivel — just to get through it.

The situations in the film go from the silly to the plain ludicrous.

Whedon's screenplay, of course, has the robot and its hive - mind cohorts running around to put together a ludicrous plan to destroy life on Earth, putting itself in a series of situations in which the Avengers can jump into action (The most amusing involves a chase in which Ultron is riding in the back of a delivery truck, which seems like a rather mundane mode of transport for any supervillain, let alone a super-intelligent artificial brain).

Instead, he committed wholeheartedly to Kaufman's insane vision, throwing himself with gusto into every situation, from sitting around pretentiously speaking lines into a tape recorder to performing the ludicrous «dance of despair and disillusionment» clad only in a towel.

The situation has been described as «ludicrous», as «total discrimination» and as «incredibly disappointing» in the papers, on the television and on the radio (4).

Even though that situation seems pretty ludicrous, isn't it exactly what we see with your average stock picker?

If you can look past the sluggish controls and imprecise platforming, you might enjoy NTtE's ludicrous characters and situations, but it's a joke that doesn't bear repeating.

Admitting he misjudged the situation, Nix said: «In playing along with this line of conversation... we entertained a series of ludicrous hypothetical scenarios.