Sentences with phrase «ridiculousness of»

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

I look at the coverlines at the supermarket and find myself muttering out loud about the ridiculousness of them!

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.

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.

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.

There aren't ruling - class families who consider themselves dynasties, but rather people who recognize the ridiculousness of one person accumulating so much money so fast.

Ignoring the obvious ridiculousness of wearing a gold Watch while exercising, this is a serious limitation for a device that you are supposed to wear all day long.

And, when I wasn't laughing at the ridiculousness of it all, I was crying inside, knowing that I had made a really bad career choice.

As a marketer, Bodine deserves credit for showing the ridiculousness of the new rules.

Either a fairy tale firm where the all lawyers live happily ever after, or more realistically, a concept for a new law - themed television show that dwarfs the ridiculousness of any previous lawyer show in my recent memory.

Willis... I, Brandon, Barry, Steve McIntyre and a number of others identified the ridiculousness of this peer review debacle way back then... including questioning the multiple changes in listed peer reviewers.

Now the other hand will show what is introduced to change those temperatures and ridiculousness of this process when all other parameters are ignored strictly for temperature gathering and guessing at what changed them.

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:

To think that none of those advances have moved over into the automotive industry to improve fuel economy speaks to the ridiculousness of the situation.

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.

The ridiculousness of the word «ridiculousness» becomes apparent when you try to form the plural: «ridiculousnesses.»

(smiling at the ridiculousness of this)

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?!?

Using photography, video, installation and signage, Xu Zhen (Shanghai) and Ron Terada (Vancouver) draw our attention to the mostly unnoticed and dismissed trivial details of everyday life, like the linguistic goofiness or visual puns of street signs, the ridiculousness of clichéd expressions, and pranks.

These are rollicking paintings about the relentless pursuit of pleasure, the realization of wild fantasies, the ridiculousness of it all.

It should be noted that there were many experts that stood tall in the defense of Walker and her art, believing in the honesty of motifs and goals used by the young artist and applauding the willingness to expose the ridiculousness of these stereotypes.

The texts in her subsequent Survival series, compiled in 1983 - 85, speak to the great pain, delight, and ridiculousness of living in contemporary society.

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.

In all honesty, we have pretty mixed expectations for the quality of the actual artwork here, but the sheer ridiculousness of this event makes it a Wednesday - night destination.

«It's the ridiculousness of that that I wanted to mirror, but in my own way.»

It's hard not to laugh and smile at the absurd predicaments he conceives of for each shot, reminding us all to take a step back sometimes and just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.

We then delve into the ridiculousness of Call of Duty still absolutely crushing it in sales and question if it will ever have a stopping point.

Having recently returned from a road trip to the wonderful city of Duluth, Minnesota, the gang tells tales of the ridiculousness of highway billboards.

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).

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

Where movies like The Fast and the Furious don't take themselves too seriously, and much of the entertainment value comes from the sheer ridiculousness of it all, Payback takes itself far too serious to be enjoyable and the moments that it doesn't come off as hacky attempts at humor and pot shots at popular culture.

If you wanted a more serious story, you won't get it here, as the game seems to want to be more humorous to match the ridiculousness of its rhythmic combat arts concept.

After you've experienced Final Fantasy X's epic story, you can then relax with the playful ridiculousness of X-2.

Platforms PS4 / Xbox One / PC Developer RedLynx Publisher Ubisoft Genre Racing Platform Played Xbox One Following the sheer ridiculousness of the Awesome Level Max DLC for Trials Fusion, it was hard to imagine how RedLynx might infuse their franchise with more absurd content.

The ridiculousness of the ones screaming «downgrade» is pathetic at best.

Further, this is a satire about the ridiculousness of dogfighting and we believe in the power of a modern media tool to educate and raise awareness of the real horrors.

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.

I don't mind paying a buyer's agent (but not 2.5 - 3 % as this is what I paid 12 years ago and housing prices have doubled but the work to sell a house hasn't, nor has anyone else's wages), but this ridiculousness of paying a listing agent 2.5 % -3 % for simply listing a house has got to stop and it soon will.

Flash is such an integral part of my life that I laugh at the ridiculousness of your comment.

And even though AU has the media in its pocket, the ridiculousness of their stance is becoming impossible to hide.

I just heard about all this late yesterday and was shocked at the ridiculousness of it all.

Even the usually reserved folks at RM Sothebys couldn't help but giggle at the ridiculousness of this pure, unfiltered draught of the 1980s, mentioning that «this particular Countach would fit right in at Miami Beach.»

Rep. Erik Fresen, FL House Florida symbolizes the unbearable ridiculousness of school reform.

In her writings, nowhere does Kopp reflect upon the patent ridiculousness of her expectation that loads of cash donated by corporations that exploit inequalities across the world — such as Union Carbide and Mobil, two of TFA's earliest contributors — will help her solve some of the gravest injustices endemic to American society.

But a look at the broad changes wrought by technology and the advance of the knowledge - based economy more than prove the ridiculousness of the assertions made by Gardner (and pushed by folks such as Harvard's Ronald Ferguson and Robert Schwartz in their Pathways to Prosperity report released earlier this year) shows that this is not anything close to reality.

Children will delight in the way the author highlights the ridiculousness of the adults in Nanny Piggins» world, while classroom teachers can read each chapter as a standalone story within a lesson, or the book as an ongoing whole over the course of days or weeks.

The ridiculousness of not being good at breathing revealed to her in stark clarity how insidious and unfair her inner critic was.

It really helps as well that the filmmakers are willing to embrace the ridiculousness of the concept in a big way.

He then poked fun at the ridiculousness of Rey's single name, asking if she's «The Madonna of Jakku.»

Not long ago, I offered up a retrospective review of the minor 1980s hit, Soul Man, in which I somewhat questioned the merit of the filmmakers for adopting this formula: exploit as many stereotypes against Black people for easy laughs, because in the end, it will go for affirmation of the ridiculousness of such stereotypes.