Sentences with phrase «most 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 *»

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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?

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.

The presence of Emily Watson, excellent screen actor that she is, only increased my sinking feeling that Anderson has been influenced by Lars von Trier at his most trifling and facetious.

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.

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

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.