But it would be facetious to insist there's no correlation.
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It sounds like I'm being facetious, but it's actually true.
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De Palma's wit is more facetious and, one might say, lacerating.
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Wishart prefers to compare urine to fingerprints, and he's not being facetious.
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Which isn't to say this show isn't blandly facetious and fluffy also.
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For many serving in these positions, this may not be a facetious suggestion.
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Smith: When Kara said she wouldn't watch that, I think she's being facetious.
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The facetious answer is that the world would probably be a lot less fun.
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It's just a facetious football game, and yet people seem really into the idea.
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"Not being facetious: My fax machine is in greater use these days," Lynton said.
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Dillon offered a practical, edgy and ostensibly facetious solution to the Big Three problem.
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This is the first time in this bull market where it's not being facetious.
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Biggs argues such comparisons are facetious for various reasons—and back and forth forever.
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Indeed, his generally urbane tone is neither ironic and frivolous, nor competitive and facetious.
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It would be entirely facetious to label Deborah Castillo's "Slapping Power" (2015/18) as funny.
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At first I thought she was being facetious—but no—she actually believed that nonsense.
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Not to be facetious but the Queen's hat looks like the European Union flag pic.twitter.
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My really facetious example is: Giving people ponies is also better than being in jail.
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I'm not even being facetious; this is a life goal if I've ever seen one.
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I made some facetious comment about my face, and Dermot left to continue his quest elsewhere.
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Despite his facetious caption, Jonathan actually did a pretty good job at representing New York City.
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AV: Well, I mean I was being when I wrote that I was being a little facetious.
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Well, it was probably a little facetious on my part because I grew up playing classical piano.
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Abraham Lincoln was called the "obscene ape from Illinois", "weak" and a "facetious pettifogger", said Mr Obama.
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I — I'm not being facetious, I hope there are, and I'll consent to the release of them.
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Similarly, her genre on SoundCloud is "goth pop," a term North attributes to being facetious on the internet.
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The fight, largely considered facetious, has become a meme everywhere from YouTube to Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and more.
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The three stars represent prosperity, status and longevity — that last attribute seems facetious, when you're talking about smartphones.
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This is a somewhat rhetorical question, given that the year is almost over, but not a facetious one.
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But more importantly — I mean, I'm being a little facetious, that did happen and that was certainly an input.
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People reamed Dawson for his facetious treatment of mental health, and Dawson later apologized to anyone who was offended.
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While that comment may have been facetious, she's serious about introducing a lesbian relationship into her character's plot line.
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And while we're being facetious, who the fuck wants to celebrate being a year older past the age of 25?
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Word of the Day : inappropriately clever or amusing in tone _________ The word facetious has appeared in 23 articles on NYTimes.
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We understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in facetious and non-serious ways.
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Maybe she was just being facetious, to throw all of our preconceived notions about elective C-sections back in our faces.
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"My biography is: David Lynch, born in Missoula, Montana, Eagle Scout," the director David Lynch says, not the tiniest bit facetious.
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There are some slightly facetious suggestions recommending how to break the 210-minute epic into a three- or four-part series.
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Thinking he was joking (that's exactly the kind of thing this guy would say), the women gave a facetious thumbs up.
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On the back, there was some facetious copy about the drink being of the finest quality, preferred by lords and ladies.
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We're being facetious, of course, but this bizarre and disconcerting scenario appears to have unfolded at Sava's Restaurant, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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I am being only slightly facetious since those characteristics are shared by each, give or take an isolated instance here or there.
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These questions are a little facetious, but they underscore the impossibility of creating a truly level playing field between humans and computers.
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I probably I sound like I'm being facetious, but I'm generally curious about who would be interested in a vehicle like this.
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I'm not saying this to be facetious, or as a precursor to presenting redeemable qualities that justify his continued presence in blockbusters.
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The jokes were terrible, and terribly delivered; Bloomberg's facetious thank-you to the candidates he had "beaten" in Las Vegas was cringeworthy.
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I understood this to be a facetious claim at the time: Cedarville, as I knew it, restricted student dress, speech, and religious expression.
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Of course I am being facetious, but not that far from the truth of what we expect from college-bound teenagers these days.
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"It's got that same emotional darkness as the first one," Welch says, before getting a facetious dig in at the relative newbie Luzier.
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While Blair said on the show that he was being facetious, his comments quickly circulated around Twitter, with fans praising his blunt attitude.
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I am, of course, being slightly facetious here — we've already seen the failure of Facebook's Trending Stories algorithm to filter out fake stories.
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On the basis of this mildly facetious logic, there are a select band of professional footballers who we must single out for special praise.
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" Sajak joked, "No wonder you came here, you just wanted to get away from everybody," before telling Davis he knew he was "being facetious.
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And only a year before the Bork nomination, the Supreme Court rejected as "facetious" the claim that the Constitution prohibits criminalizing consensual gay sex.
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Paul's video is entirely facetious, but the underlying parallels between his journey into flat earth conspiracy theories and the way conspiracies spread on YouTube isn't.
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You wrote that in the 153s, the writer Karel Capek said Česko was "not musical" and that "it even sounds a little facetious" to foreigners.
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" The governor later backtracked during the interview, saying he was being "slightly facetious" and that "it's better to err on the side of being safe.
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Briefly on Monday, the site published what appeared to be a facetious column that mocked Mr. Shapiro for resigning and compared him to a snake.
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Mr. Oyelowo is without a doubt the best thing in "Gringo," supplying the only grace notes in a cacophony of secondhand attitude and facetious overacting.
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She's referring, with a facetious touch, to the fact our immune system can become disrupted if it doesn't have regular interactions with the natural world.
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If you've ever wanted a brand new Nespresso machine (that's a tad facetious because who would say no?), Cyber Monday is the time to act.
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Bartholomew was clearly being facetious, though he and his colleagues insist the company is innocent and has been unfairly treated by the media and American authorities.
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He assumed a facetious air when he talked about the importance of actors, and then went in for the kill with this line about Angelina Jolie.
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No wonder you came here, you just wanted to get away from everybody," the TV host joked, before clarifying that he knows Davis was "being facetious.
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Nonetheless, Tuesday's announcement that he will deliver the speech immediately fueled facetious speculation among some political commentators on Twitter that Ryan will announce he's running for president.
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The effect wasn't maddening, as it perhaps would be in what one would consider a tastefully appointed home, but comical — facetious and playful like its surrounding environment.
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Donaldson has been one of Kjellberg's most vocal supporters in his mostly facetious battle with T-Series, an extremely popular Bollywood music and movie studio based in India.
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NEW ORLEANS — Surely you remember Coach Steve Kerr's facetious (and humorous) plan that he revealed shortly after the Golden State Warriors were beaten in the 2019 N.B.A. finals.
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"It was purely comedic but he was giving [Elisabeth] and I a facetious rendition of his planned proposal," Paré said at the season 6 premiere of the show.
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Those who did make it onto trains could while away the journey playing "Southern Rail Tycoon", a facetious online game that rewards players for each service they cancel.
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My Own KitchenPeople think I'm being facetious, but I had never cooked at home except for the occasional one or two meals, maybe like Thanksgiving 18 years ago.
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The (often facetious, but sometimes deadly serious) public condemnation of someone whose behavior or belief system is so distasteful that the person is no longer relevant or desired.
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"To say that jobs are created by setting up a factory, and that therefore it is public purpose, is a facetious argument," Shrivastava told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Pretty much everyone else in the town is connected to the Annex Foundation, too, including Coach Jones (Michael Stahl-David) and Marnie (Sarah Mezzanotte), the school's facetious do-gooder.
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Kjellberg later made several other jokes about "Subscribe to PewDiePie," in a mostly facetious way, but many other creators backed away from it altogether in wake of the tragedy.
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So, now you can probably understand why we find Trump's statement that he won't accept the election results if he doesn't win -- facetious or not — so unsettling and dangerous.
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But I think, as facetious as it may seem, there's something valid in grieving a crucial part of my life, my day, and my mental health that's now gone.
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Then I was off to find three other phrases unrelated to fishing but containing a fishing term at the end that could be clued in a similarly facetious way.
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"I believed, and still do, that the jacket was a facetious jab at Ivanka and her near-constant attempts to attach herself for positive administration talking points," Bennett writes.
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"I believed, and still do, that the jacket was a facetious jab at Ivanka and her near-constant attempts to attach herself for positive administration talking points," Bennett wrote.
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Affleck was accused of sexual misconduct by two women, a producer and cinematographer, while working on the facetious Joaquin Phoenix documentary he directed I'm Still Here in two 2010 lawsuits.
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What was promoted as an exchanging of rings was better characterized as a facetious litany of moments designed to go viral, artifice presented with frenzied urgency but no earnest emotion.
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" The Kentucky Republican walked backed some of his criticism later in the interview, saying he was being "slightly facetious" and that "it's better to err on the side of being safe.
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I'm being a little facetious but the fact that the Post was sending a woman, my God, if there was an institution bigger than the 'Skins it was the Washington Post.
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Officials flatly rejected her facetious first suggestion that the maturing tropical depressions also be called "him-icanes," and that the center bestow storm names to honor its bloviating benefactors in Congress.
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On Saturday Night Live in 2006, Amy Poehler played the clueless housewife in a facetious Valtrex commercial in which she contracts herpes from her supposedly-faithful husband, played by Alec Baldwin.
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Certainly — I'm not being facetious here — one way to suggest you have nothing to fear at work, on the subway or on the street is to dress every inch the soft target.
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Diverse, adaptable and plentiful: It may seem facetious to reduce human beings to a series of investment characteristics, but, by certain metrics, it's quite easily done… for all 7.5 billion of us.
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Mike Pence of Indiana; and campaign staff members contended that Mr. Trump was being facetious when, during a news conference on Wednesday, he said he hoped Russia would be able to find Mrs.
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More than 30,000 users signed up for the Facebook event "Shoot at Hurricane Irma," a facetious call to arms from Florida resident Ryon Edwards, who suggested that residents fire guns at the hurricane.
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Kerry Howley, a professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa, who wrote on Twitter that she never "felt more invested in a political debate," said her remark was meant to be facetious.
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During the Roaring Twenties, "it began to appear far more often in tandem with glorifications of wealth," she writes — and therefore took on an ironic, even facetious, dimension among critics of the new dispensation.
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Attending the Super Bowl and bringing attention to the campaign this way is probably something that Kjellberg can appreciate without having to worry about YouTube creators spending a ton of money on a facetious campaign.
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This recommendation is a little facetious as international obligations seldom trump the whims of domestic policymakers, and when they do, it's because of legal enforcement from governance bodies like the United Nations and European Union.
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So I was listening to you this morning — you taped something yesterday, in between then every woman in the world said Donald Trump had — I'm being facetious and flippant; I probably shouldn't — had assaulted her. Yes.
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After news emerged Monday that Burrow's hands measured 22018 inches — on the low end of the range that personnel evaluators typically prefer in a quarterback — the former LSU star took to Twitter with a facetious response.
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I truly wish I was being facetious about how overwhelming I found all of these tasks, but I dare you to try it out for yourself and not feel even slightly frazzled by the many random responsibilities.
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"I believed, and still do, that the jacket was a facetious jab at Ivanka and her near-constant attempts to attach herself for positive administration talking points," Bennett wrote in a new biography of the first lady.
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Meanwhile, while fearful reactions to Asian people may appear to be a facetious meme, many are taking it literally, like these people physically covering their faces while seated across from an Asian woman with a suitcase on public transportation.
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It has been amply documented that "ironic" expressions of bigotry and anti-Semitism — jokes and memes on social media; facetious trolling of the politically correct; slurs as exercises in free speech — can evolve over time into the real thing.
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The text is a parody of "a facetious message containing a series of ridiculous claims and grandiose threats that portray the poster as an Internet tough guy stereotype," according to Know Your Meme, the site that tracks online jokes.
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Brent Barry: I would say maybe other than [Kristaps] Porzingis being able to carry what he's carrying in New York City, just because the league would want me to say that, because it's New York (and I'm totally being facetious).
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The inelegant graphic design of this self-proclaimed "ultimate art gift shop" had me question whether this was an e-commerce store quickly set up by a Zazzle-savvy entrepreneur, or, more likely, a facetious, deliberately crude project by an artist.
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In a series of facetious posts on Twitter and other social media platforms, some commenters speculated on the intentions of Mr. Guzmán (believed to be in his late 50s or early 60s, and married) toward Ms. del Castillo (43, twice divorced).
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His significance became inevitable as he rode the benefit of a doubt (a short list of hecklers includes Robert Hughes, Jed Perl, and Hilton Kramer) that lent support to his champions: nothing elevates facetious vulgarity more than attempts to criticize it.
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Kjellberg live-streamed his gameplay session as a way to bring attention to the ongoing, mostly facetious battle between himself and T-Series, a Bollywood-centric YouTube channel that is close to overtaking Kjellberg as the most subscribed-to creator on YouTube.
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Ever since Quincy Jones first alleged that Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando had a sexual relationship back in the day, the internet has been ablaze trying to determine if the music icon was being facetious or letting the world in on a decades-long secret.
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Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg ended his months-long, facetious war with Bollywood powerhouse T-Series today, acknowledging that T-Series had taken over as the largest user-created channel on YouTube by issuing a music video filled with a series of personal confessions and accusations against his rival.
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Curator Severin Dünser has pulled together a full spectrum of media and processes, from painting and sculpture to installation, video, digital art, performance, and viewer interactivity, with offerings that careen without warning from buoyant to facetious to grim, especially those that deal with the criminality of power.
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" On working with the Trump administration: "It is my hope that this new administration, once it gets organized, I'm not being facetious, will be able to focus on and be as committed and enthusiastic as we were in the goal of ending cancer as we know it.
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"The blanket solutions that Twitter and Facebook came up with to deal with this problem aren't working," Mitchell said, arguing that social media platforms don't have adequately diverse moderation staffs to keep up with the nuances of accounts that are doing facetious-at-best portrayals of black Americans.
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I was 10 years old when this movie came out, and could not possibly have made the connection between what was on the screen and the rise of a whole new age of facetious rhetoric around the common good, which makes the movie somewhat disturbing to watch now.
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A few moments later, Tarantino stands, unsheathes an LP and drops the needle on side two of Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story," then raises his glass to Ninja and Visser in a facetious toast — but they already have their backs to him and, tellingly, the volume is significantly lower.
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However, in light of the increasingly unflattering pall that The Bachelor and its spinoffs have cast upon the pool of potential mates — which, again, producers have cherry-picked for their Bachelor — it seems facetious to claim that anyone who shows up at a casting call for the franchise is there to find love.
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" After vomiting from a combination of bad tea, wine, exhaustion, grief and getting bonked in the head with a basketball, Helen delivers a beautifully facetious account of how she never quite grasped that Vik's death would truly take him away from her forever: "I get it, he made his point, he died.
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I spend roughly 45 hours a week being paid to write about music and another 10 to 15 thinking about it for free, but I'm not at all being facetious when I say that I would probably give up the ability to hear music ever again if it meant that I could go to the Met Gala just one time.
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" Bevin said that he was being "only slightly facetious" and that he had a real concern — "that in America, on this and any number of other fronts, we're sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait 'til it stops being hard.
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President Trump's recent remarks concerning the practice of civil asset forfeiture at a roundtable of county sheriffs (particularly his hopefully-facetious threat to "destroy [the] career" of a Texas state senator who dares to oppose the policy) are disturbing, because they suggest he supports a frankly nonsensical practice that violates property rights, due process, and good, old-fashioned fairness and common sense.
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In a new interview with Stereogum, the big U2 lads Bono and The Edge revealed their favorite music of the year: I'm being facetious, because in all seriousness, the similarities between Bono, me, and basically every other music fan (barring his Royal Blood and Noel Gallagher preferences—sorry fellas, as you were LO x) kind of go to show that 2017 has actually been a year of a massive amount of very, very good music.
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