Sentences with phrase «on ridiculousness of»

Everyone is focusing on the Oxford comma part of this case, but I'd like to focus on the ridiculousness of an employment law that could result in this confusion and hinge on a grammar question.

is a testament to the full - on ridiculousness of the world.

The movie This Is Spinal Tap (1984) was a groundbreaking comedy that introduced many to the mockumentary style of filmmaking and focused on the ridiculousness of 70s heavy metal bands.

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Considering some of the flack people are posting, I guess this is a sort of article like what I was hoping to see, but the ridiculousness of a Jewish FB clone called «FaceGlat» is sort of on the lame side.

Either educate yourselves on the utter ridiculousness of religion or help educate everyone else by adhering word - for - word to the «rules» as set forth in either your bible or koran.

In an attempt to also clean out my pantry, I decided to layer ridiculousness on top of ridiculousness until these bars were born.

When Julia Hartley - Brewer branded the England squad a «bunch of overpaid nonces» in the wake of their embarrassing Euros exit at the hands of Iceland, those on social media expressed mixed reactions of ridicule and ridiculousness.

It was there that TakeOver: The End took place, with a subtitle for that subtitle introduced at the last minute just to further place importance (and a hint of ridiculousness) on the whole affair: it was now «The End of the Beginning,» a sign that NXT truly is at the end of an era in more ways than one.

BBC's Match of the Day reached new levels of ridiculousness on Wednesday night with their analysis of Arsenal's game against West Ham.

After the plain ridiculousness of handshakegate, there was actually a football match played on Saturday at Old Trafford.

The sheer ridiculousness of the comments you refer to is freaking hilarious... because obviously these people either a) don't have kids themselves, in which case they have no business intimating that they would make a better parent than you, or b) do, in fact, have children, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDREof the comments you refer to is freaking hilarious... because obviously these people either a) don't have kids themselves, in which case they have no business intimating that they would make a better parent than you, or b) do, in fact, have children, but SPEND ALL OF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDREOF THEIR TIME READING BLOGS THAT THEY CAN MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ON INSTEAD OF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDREOF BONDING WITH THEIR CHILDREN.

Because I will never, ever forget the ridiculousness that was squatting next to the sink of a bathroom at MIT trying to pump, with people banging on the door.

Come on, even this ol' NCBer can see the ridiculousness of that claim.

It's resulted in half - hours of television that are daring and singular, where nothing else on TV is able to hit such comedic ridiculousness in the same breath as human insights.

One of the most famous of the Saturday Night Live political players is George Double - ya himself, Will Ferrell, whose new movie The Campaign attempts to deliver a similarly satirical take on the ridiculousness that is American politics, but in a dirtier, and — dare I say it — more hilarious way.

He found humor through pitch - perfect performances and massive layers of ridiculousness, virtually unafraid to get a little weird on his audience through discomforting sexual exploits or raunchy circumstances of male bonding.

Claire claims to be involved with a group called «Faults,» which supposedly allows people to see past the ridiculousness of human life and move on into other stages.

The story seems to know how off - the - wall it is and uses that to its advantage by causing laughs at the sheer ridiculousness of everything that is going on.

These games are very similar to the shlocky 50s B - Movies that surely inspired them; full of sheer ridiculousness on a grand scale.

Because even the documentary aspects aren't enough to stand on their own, each story of true love is recreated by one of Yi's intentionally - amateurish puppet shows / third - grade dioramas, with the major players represented by Popsicle - stick people and every metaphor literalized to the point of ridiculousness.

I will give Leonetti credit though in that the film never verges on the edge of ridiculousness which, considering a doll is the face of your main antagonist, would have been very easy to do.

As the movie goes on, Rydell steps up the ridiculousness with each of his lessons, requiring Dave to stop everything and anything that might trigger anger and even make audio notes of any progress he's making.

Yet, among some subtle observations about gender inequality, the film makes sure to leave plenty of breathing room for McCarthy, Bullock and the largely game cast of supporting players to riff on all sorts of ridiculousness.

Encourage people not only to educate themselves about the difference between individual breeds but also about the sheer ridiculousness of judging an entire classification of dog based on a select few incidences that receive sensationalized media coverage.

In his first book, Do Travel Writers Go To Hell, he takes readers through a healthy fixing of ridiculousness as he embarks on a debaucherous -LSB-...]

Because if you end up on set who knows what other kind of chaos, ridiculousness, or highway noise there's going to be.

Centered around the vengeful tale of an arrogant, angry rabbit named Ash — who also happens to be the prince of hell — and his quest to gain revenge on various monsters for «liking» an embarrassing photo of his royal highness in the tub with a rubber ducky, you have to go in expecting a certain bit of ridiculousness.

This game oozes sci - fi and takes a page from J.J. Abrams as the amount of lens flares in the galaxy verges on the point of ridiculousness.

While the combat is lacking in depth, the sheer ridiculousness of the dialogue and varied personalities keep proceedings rolling on smoothly.

Endlessly replenishing foes literally just fall from the sky ready to fight (which is perhaps unintentionally, but humorously in tone with the ridiculousness of the anime and manga it is based on).

Don't Take Your Eye Off The Ball focuses on the ridiculousness and overt sexualisation of sports coverage following from Rowley's recent interest in sporting activities and their impact on the perception of masculinity.

Fitting the low - fi nature and their tendencies to fit the program «with the down to earthiness of it, and the ridiculousness of it», the show will open on 14th of June in the parking space on Hoxton Square in London.

If you carefully read the WSJ op - ed, you'll see some fairly careful crafting of half - truths and phrases designed to elicit emotion: you're supposed to be astonished at the initial political reference, laughing at the ridiculousness of skating on the Thames, and then — lastly — outraged at the duplicitousness of those darned scientists — gosh, don't they know climate is always changing?!?

While Guangzhou's 48.6 million yuan plan to clean up the Pearl Rivers make for good policy, Guangdong's proposals to reclaim new land to increase agricultural land borders on ridiculousness, and speaks to the kind of lunatic policy making when subunits of national government are left to their own devices.

We saw the same thing recently on Fox News, which used plenty of snowy footage to emphasize the ridiculousness of Obama spending money now to combat a problem that will only «maybe» affect us later:

The crux of each four - frame strip was the ridiculousness of the characters» overpoliteness preventing their ability to get on with the task at hand.

Read this post for a sampling of interviewers who think candidates who ask about salary early on are «only interested in what the employer can do for them» and other ridiculousness.

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a lawsuit against the FDA over the ridiculousness of placing a scientifically unfounded age restriction on emergency contraception, which eventually led to the lowering of the restriction to 17 years.

I take offense and quite frankly wish that people, myself included, would start calling them on their ridiculousness instead of simply mollifying each other with the justification of their behavior as «banks being banks».

If those questions seem ridiculous, how about the absolute ridiculousness of putting a star's weight on the cover of a magazine?