Sentences with phrase «not facetious»

@S ébastienPalcoux - you'll have to present evidence that 90 % of Math PhDs (1) Want to do research [I personally dropped out of Math PhD program specifically because I didn't want to, so it's not a facetious point]; and (2) That they are good enough math researchers that they need to be funded as such.

It wasn't an altogether serious question, but it wasn't facetious either.

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I'm not being facetious, I just can't understand that.

I sympathize with a facetious remark of one theologian who said that the Trinity is a doctrine which, if a man does not believe it he is sure to lose his soul, but if he tries to understand it he is sure to lose his wits.

So, taking that a somewhat facetious, albeit honest step further, are the godly the ones who say they don't need Christ?

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.

I don't want to sound facetious, but is the response to that: «He is risen, indeed, Alleluia!»

To teach them is a joy, but they will risk nothing, not even for one facetious question on a minor exam.

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?

Suppression and censorship have long been the tools of your ilk (assuming you're not being facetious).

Okay, that's obiously a facetious statment, and one could say I have no right to comment at all on a book I haven't read, but I can't help but smell a rat when someone is not willing to have his work examined when he is making claims related to human history.

This isn't me being facetious, I'm legitimately curious what type of forward would fit into our system well and excite the crowd again.

From loudspeakers the size of the cathedral at Chartres comes the news that Y.M.C.A. isn't the homo - facetious send - up the Village People thought it was, but an unironic crowd pleaser that gets everybody on their feet!

But when you consider we haven't won a trophy for five years now (the last of which was ironically the Mickey Mouse cup), it's not like being facetious about it is an option.

«No - one's doing anything about tax havens, no - one's doing anything about the political affiliations and financial affiliations of the Conservative party, so until people start addressing things that are actually real why wouldn't I be facetious, why would I take it seriously?»

I was obviously being facetious... that's called making a joke not being serious

I'm not being facetious here.

We are not being facetious — we realize that the core target demographic is the lesbian community.

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.

You may be surprised to learn that this comment did not appear to be a facetious one... nor, for that matter, was our earlier description of the film as a lost classic.

Of course, I'm being a little facetious here, but not by much.

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.

I am not at all being facetious when I say that this crudely plotted, bargain - basement action flick from Uganda is the best evidence I've seen thus far that movies are still alive and kicking.

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.

I'm not saying that to be facetious or hypothetical, like, «I have all these suggestions to make it better and here's how you do it,» or «I'm seeing this tonight and I hope it's going to be... Continue reading Triple 9

This is not meant to be a facetious suggestion, at least not for secondary social studies teachers.

I'm not being facetious, and I see the benefit for Amazon and monetising Twitter — but for self - pubbies?

I am not being facetious stating facts as I always do

I'm not being facetious here.

I hope you can see I'm being facetious (don't worry, I looked up the word too!).

And I wasn't being entirely facetious with «under the mattress», though majority of your money should be elsewhere.

Wow, I just can't believe some of these commenters don't agree with you Gary (being facetious, of course).

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.

@nx - man dear God you seriously need to educate yourself on this business, I'm not even saying that to be facetious or mean I literally seriously mean read on this business because your comments are coming from a place that don't really understand the relationship between contracted Developers.

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.

I'm being facetious about Erron and The Swordsman, and two pics don't tell an entire story, but do a quick Google search and you'll see what I mean.

I am being somewhat facetious with that subheading, not to mention self - indulgent.

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.

The comment is meant to be facetious, but is actually not too far off base when one considers the recent trajectory of his practice weighed against periods of his career that garnered less attention.

I'm not being facetious.

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.

I don't mean to be facetious, because I don't know what the word facetious means.

I'm not trying to be facetious.

Of course the question is facetious: if not the COPs to talk about REDD +, then where?

# 73 ks: You are being facetious, aren't you, when you say, «From North's presentation it seems that the NAS report had a more thorough review process prior to the hearing than the Wegman report.»

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.

Again, only a blind monkey following the team would actually believe Steig's comment was not just facetious c.y.a. after his many tantrums regarding the work they did prior to the JoC article.

Another not entirely facetious suggestion was to rename it as the Society of Legal Information Professionals (SLIP).