Sentences with phrase «ridiculous stories in»

There are ridiculous stories in the world of football and then there are those certain stories that take the absurd to a whole new level.

At the final moments of the 2016 electioneering campaign when all parties should be deploying their best arsenals to win over undecided voters, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), sensing defeat, has taken political decency a notch lower and sprung up what could best be described as the most ridiculous story in the 2016 electioneering season.

Not exact matches

Dubner told what he called the «disgusting and ridiculous» story of how the thin Japanese man shattered world records and redefined competitive eating at Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot - dog eating contest in Coney Island, N.Y.

The stories in the bible are so ridiculous I don't see how any theist doesn't get embarrassed telling Them.

Hmm — when I think charlatanism, I must confess, what comes to mind is this ridiculous excuse by early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) that the devil was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order (to fool people into thinking that other similar stories before the Gospels came first).

I would challenge not only the anecdotes in the story, which I don't think are anything but lies or half - truths at best, but also the numbers, because the resurrection and the rapture are two entirely different things — although they're both equally ridiculous notions to posit.

Whatever our final assessment, we ought to be able to separate the trivial and sometimes truly ridiculous from what is potentially worthwhile in this literature: the affirmation of embodiment, the recognition of suffering, the hopeful quest for healing and the special attentiveness to women's lives and stories.

If I would have turned in those same items as part of a short story in English class, I would have not gotten higher than a «C» because of all the ridiculous contradictions.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

Lol, now the pundits are clutching at straws, the story of having a weak spine, lack of spending bla bla bla looks to have been thrown out the window and interstingly, I think we have Mourinho, Pogba and everyone involved in paying that ridiculous amount of 90 million pounds to thank for the most decent window we've had in a while.

At least with that story there is a chance it could happen I suppose, unlike the ridiculous report in the Metro suggesting that the Barcelona and Spain star Sergio Busquets is at the top of Wenger's transfer list.

Young drivers can be known to have short tempers but this story from the Formula 3 European Championship in Hungary is absolutely ridiculous.

Washington's early blip would be the main story here if not for something absolutely ridiculous happening while the Nationals were in the midst of losing once again.

Whether it's Gazidis making ridiculous claims about our supposedly successful transfer window, even going so far as to suggest that everything went according to plann, or it's Wenger having the audacity to speak about taking a much more proactive approach to the re-signing of players with less than 2 years left on their current deals; which on it's own is a nothing story, it's football management 101, but let's not forget just a few weeks ago he was proudly championing his «ingenious» plan of having his best players playing in the last year of their respective contracts.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

he story has also resulted in a ridiculous amount of merchandise sales with her face all over t - shirts,

Since Loyola has made it to the Final Four, America gets even more Sister Jean, and the story has also resulted in a ridiculous amount of merchandise sales with her face all over t - shirts, bobbleheads and more.

Today's most interesting / ridiculous / made - up in the pub football stories: Spurs have lined up Blackburn boss Mark Hughes to replace Martin Jol, if the struggling North Londoners fail to win at home against Rovers on Sunday.

... It was just so ridiculous is was hilarious... this is going to be one of those stories that his girlfriends will hear... and now whenever he is tired at bathtime he leans back in the tub and says «ahhhhh that feels nice»... and looks at me for the obligatory laugh... little goofball.

After overhearing his co-workers on the TV show «Once Upon a Time in Wonderland» tell ridiculous stories about daycare, Shapiro figured comedy + babies = viral + White House invite.

A story of a mother falling head over heels for a second smiling, giggling, rolling little love whose dark brown eyes made her melt into a puddle of ridiculous adoration was written in those pages.

The process story is ridiculous and the vast majority of the public is in favor of everything in the bill.

Thank you for liking my posts on Facebook and Instagram, thank you for watching my ridiculous Snapchat and Instagram stories, for checking in when you haven't seen a post from me in a while, for commenting, sharing, sending me emails... all of it, really.

All the other ridiculous action in The Island — including a fall from 70 stories up onto the streets of Los Angeles that our heroes walk away from — even approaches the barbell thing in all its manic glory.

This story is entertainingly ridiculous in and of itself — it has the men trying to conserve oxygen by eating pancakes, on the theory that pancakes have large pockets of air.

The Triumph Of Love is just such a movie, flogging a story of assumed identities so ridiculous that it wouldn't fool a three - year - old child in an uber - stagey production with such a high level of thespianship that you feel vaguely boorish for not liking it.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

The story gets too ridiculous at this point to even be satirical or reasonably credible, it is just bad film - making; but, it does try in its unclear and scrambled way to blame the media and the rich people who control it, for not being risk takers and offering fresh arguments into the political fray.

The characters just sort of flounder around in a meaningless story saying ridiculous things, like «Gee, I sure wish I was Arc.»

Not having to play within the boundaries of the Justice League's world will certainly do both some favours in the long run, not to mention the ridiculous wealth of stories Warner Bros. have at their disposal, but have never been able to get off the ground due to commitments to the core universe.

It's also fun to take on serious story missions while dressed in a ridiculous outfit.

(That a match between Seabiscuit and goliath Triple - Crown champion War Admiral on November 1, 1938 was heard by a ridiculous 40 million people seems to support the contention that there was something significant about this story; it's a great shame that none of that really comes through in Ross's hurdy - gurdy telling of it.)

The story is one of the most ridiculous I have seen in years but it doesn't seem to matter much.

Even when Quentin Tarantino isn't delivering masterpieces that bend filmmaking rules in all the right spots, he's offering interesting stories full of amazing characters that usually off one another in gloriously ridiculous ways.

«Criminal» does have some ridiculous elements and few surprises in the story department, but I have to admit I was never bored, instead going with the premise and staying in the zone through the predictable ending.

In one instance after another, the script uses these ridiculous set - ups for laughs that only reveal how over-the-top this story is.

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A scene featuring a deranged Anna Faris playing herself got most of the attention, but it's cross-cut with an even funnier moment: Keegan - Michael Key sitting in his minivan with some hardcore killers, trying — successfully, as it turns out — to convince them that George Michael is truly «O.G.» It's the sort of sublimely ridiculous moment that makes you wish these guys hadn't needed to expend their brainpower on coming up with a story for Keanu, which suffers when it tries to further its own silly plot but glimmers when it just lets its stars get silly.

It tells an absurd story in a believably unrealistic way and the series of events which punctuate the timeline are increasingly hilarious, dark and ridiculous.

(He tries to entertain Stalin with a ridiculous story about how they used to play hot potato with live grenades back in winter in Stalingrad, just to keep their hands warm.)

A grandly ridiculous theatrical tradition born in ancient Greece, deus ex machina meant, literally, a god borne by a machine descending from the sky to determine a story's outcome.

To make matters worse, we have the second big flaw in Devil: the narration courtesy of our token Hispanic guy, who seems to be narrating a story on par with the ridiculous tale from The Lady in the Water.

I know how ridiculous that sounds, but I was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the first film, which Sam Taylor - Johnson, Kelly Marcel, and Dakota Johnson (in a sly, genuinely funny performance) conspired to turn into a coming - of - sexual - age story in which a young woman took control over her body and her sexual desires in the face of men who would have be something other than what she is.

Granted, the balancing act doesn't always go as planned, and there are certainly some tonal issues in a number of scenes — ahem, the love story that's soldered in; the ridiculous gun fight — but it's a sour character study that's always held at arm's length, all while you're duck - taped to a chair wondering what's going on.

With Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig steps out of that ridiculous role of «Noah Baumbach's muse» and into her own space, where she can tell her own stories in her own words with her own style.

The story goes in to a little more detail on Belle's past which was actually just a little ridiculous but overall a charming adaption,

Hemsworth was dreadful, Goldblum attempted a ridiculous love story, Monroe was miscast, and literally every other actor in the movie sucked.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

Say what you will about the lack of plausibility involved in the story, as well as the ridiculous physics, it delivers pretty much on every intended level in terms of sheer action, thrills, humor, violence, and titillation.