Sentences with phrase «silliness by»

Whether that's by inciting laughter, inspiration, motivation or just a little silliness by my arsenal of voices (from Kermit the Frog to Hank Hill), she taught me to be true to myself.

It seems like some silliness by Grade 11 and 12 students, but actually it really helped to build community in a sense of both students being real to each other.

Set at the 1982 Tour de France and narrated by America's narrator - in - chief Jon Hamm, the 40 - minute parody centers on a core group of colorful, easily distracted (and very fictional) riders played with utmost silliness by Samberg, Bloom, John Cena, Freddie Highmore, and Daveed Diggs.

Not exact matches

I've seen a lot of silliness on the belief blog, but on the Joel Osteen topic, I was gobsmacked by the number of apologists for Biblical slavery coming out of the woodwork.

And to mention the phsycology of the time is just another poor defense — much like saying slavery was OK»cause that was the accepted practice (and supported by the christian book - of - silliness) at that time.

While we can and should continue to mature, I strongly suggest that those who continue to believe in imaginary beings and tribal myths based on books of magic / silliness written by desert dwellers hundreds of years ago have the furthest journey.

Believers have, by choice or by force, moved from country to country for hundreds of years to practice their beliefs, and until we are no longer cursed by the silliness of religion, one set of believers is likely going to make another group's life h3ll.

If believers want to congregate in their special buildings and run their lives by their books - of - magic, no problem, but the instant they try to push their silliness in public, they should expect to be asked to justify their position with something much more substantial than «this book says so» or because their charlatan leader says so.

Intellectually, we are at least advanced enough as a species to discard such silliness, but people too easily allow their better judgment to be clouded by emotion.

Everything has that moreish quality (the British term for something that causes you to instantly crave seconds), and a generosity bordering on silliness that is barely reined in by technique.

Spending so much on a player who will end up benching, or being benched by our captain is silliness.

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He tried to do this by laying a smokescreen of silliness over one of the most important sentences of his speech.

And there can be no more stupendous example of silliness than August Andree's attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897, an elaborate method of committing suicide.

Parliament was offended by the name's silliness, but Culture Minister Ed Vaizey defended it as the will of the people.

Of course, in true Digital Nails fasion, this polish was inspired in part by Adventure Time and its whimsical silliness, and I feel like that really comes through in the glitter.

It involved a big red wall recommended by my mom, really cold weather, a lot of wind, some hand sewn and knit vintage - inspired items, and more silliness than you can possibly imagine.

With Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok, that silliness is back by the space - ship load.

Finally for all the film's ridiculousness — enshrined in that cheesy - as - cheddar prologue spoken by Mako — Milius resists the temptation to play the silliness self - consciously (as say Stephen Sommers would), but revels in the earnestness of Conan's personal quest for revenge against Thulsa Doom.

In addition to Mr. Tarantino's trademark dialogue - heavy, suspense - filled set pieces, there are moments of pure silliness, like a gathering of hooded night riders (led by Don Johnson), and a late escapade (featuring Mr. Tarantino speaking in an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetype.

The silliness of The Substitute escalates as the film progresses, so that by the end there have been plenty of laughs during «serious» scenes.

I surprised myself by being on the «loved it» side, because usually I have no tolerance for silliness within thrillers, and typically my base requirement is that they have to make SOME sort of sense.

Far more clever and witty than the knockabout silliness promised by the coming attractions, this is a film that is more interested in character comedy than slapstick and gives Melissa McCarthy the most appealing role of her career and allows Jason Statham to deliver one of the most unexpectedly hilarious comedic turns in recent memory.

Instead of being livid, I quickly decided I preferred to be entertained by Kaufman's sexiness and silliness — Quills is a guilty pleasure I chose to indulge.

It's also, underneath the silliness, a metaphor of the Hurricane Katrina debacle on the part of governmental agencies, although so simplistically executed, this commentary may go by unnoticed by the masses just looking for a few good yuks.

Uprising improves by acknowledging its own silliness.

Plentiful undistinguished extras include a commentary by director Gary Shore and production designer Francois Audouy (the real star of the show), deleted scenes, and a history of the actual events vaguely underpinning the silliness.

Lost in Paris The latest by married couple Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon pulls off the tricky feat of getting formalistic whimsy just right, creating a Jacques - Tati - on - a-shoestring romance that never misses an opportunity for a sight gag or other lightweight silliness.

PREVIOUSLY Oscar season is here but we devoted one last moment of silliness to Superhero Season by tackling Thor: Ragnarok's two actresses last week - Tessa Thomspon put up a valiant fight but... well, she was going against Cate Blanchett.

The (attempted) laughs are tainted by violence, and the violence is undercut by silliness.

The great thing about Creed, they would argue, was that it fixed a lot of the problems of the Rocky sequels by clearing away the silliness and getting back to the core underdog story.

The men are all stock characters, all crudely hewn cads further exemplified by wooden, soap opera styled turns from Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, and Justin Theroux (character surnames like Hipwell and Abdick enhance a sense of silliness, like random words mashed together for a banality's sake).

But our hero and his two robot sidekicks turn a lemon into a much funnier lemon by showering This Island Earth with wisecracks, ridicule and general silliness.

Aside from all the silliness about counter-campaigns being run by disgruntled DC fanboys, and haters trying to spread fake news stories about racial assaults at screenings, it's fair to say that Black Panther has gone down an absolute storm.

But while the actors embrace the silliness of the mashup by playing it totally straight, Steers attempts to juggle so many different genres — comedy, action, romance, horror — that it continually feels at odds with itself.

Watch the ensuing silliness below, and keep your eyes peeled for bonus appearances by fellow Judd Apatow stalwarts including Seth Rogen, that other Franco, Dave, and Apatow himself.

It's too long, descends into a riot of silliness towards the end and sometimes takes the easy road of making people laugh by just getting everyone to shout a lot but it's still one of the funniest films of 2013.

Those seeking a cinematic escape from this week's barrage of «Transformers» silliness couldn't find a much more sober alternative than Cyrus Nowrasteh's «The Stoning of Soraya M.,» an adaptation of the non-fiction bestseller by French - Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam.

Minions delivers delightful summer silliness as three of the crowd - pleasing yellow pill - like hoard seek to serve a prima evil - doer, Scarlett Overkill, played by Sandra Bullock.

Your Highness hits high points of silliness (e.g. Thadeous» chronic masturbation tendencies, and a mechanical old - school Clash of the Titans - type bird named Simon) and then is punctuated by moments of extreme violence (an arrow fired through the jugular, anyone?).

Thickheaded to the extreme, with the same amount in silliness, Over the Top is, at once, a stupefying example of a film that evokes laughs just by hearing about it, until you actually watch it and find it goes beyond the level of hilarity you expect.

Still, it's Boukreev (played by Icelandic actor Ingvar Sigurdsson) who concedes the silliness of arguing about who did or said what.

The Duplass Brothers» Jeff, Who Lives at Home opens on a terrific note by bashing the silliness of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs.

But, against all odds, it succeeds simply by fully embracing the inherent silliness of a jacked Paul Rudd who can shrink in size and control an army of ants.

Supplemental silliness is supplied, instead, by Mr. Barinholtz, by Wanda Sykes and Joan Cusack (as a pair of intense tourists), by Christopher Meloni (as an Amazonian adventurer) and by Bashir Salahuddin (as a State Department bureaucrat).

Working from a screenplay by Rebecca Blunt (a person who may or may not actually exist), Soderbergh keeps the action light and playful, and lets the cast members find their own silliness within it.

Even though this comedy has a tendency to dip into cartoonish silliness, it's anchored by a razor - sharp performance by Wiig as a woman forced to confront everything she hates about herself.

The candidate low - blows are heightened in their ridiculousness (Marty embarrasses Cam by reading from a story called «Rainbowland» that Cam wrote in second grade) but it soon becomes apparent that the exaggeration within such silliness isn't that much of a stretch.

Those who are turned off by the silliness of Disney films like The Mighty Ducks and First Kid will not find anything like that here.

Luckily, none of that silliness really affects the performance of James Gandolfini (Julia Louis - Dreyfus is another story), whose Albert is a proud but wounded divorced father who finds himself smitten by this woman he bumps into at a party.