I don't want to stress their silliness without sufficiently conveying their emotional power; their silliness creates the emotional power.
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Somewhere near the heart of Baskets were a lot of thoughts about the power of clowning and silliness for the sake of silliness.
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Where the first film was content with straight-faced silliness, Zoolander 2 tries to blow the same silliness out to epic, world-spanning proportions, and it just winds up feeling overstretched.
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The work tends toward silliness but never topples into it.
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However, I'll save that sort of silliness for another day.
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In certain moments, this movie is a champion of silliness!
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"There's lots of silliness, and human hilarity," Mr. Sicha said.
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My father —his silliness, his terrifying humor was deeply funny.
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It's the exact kind of partisan silliness these voters hate.
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Then again, this underlines the silliness of Rodney Hyden's odyssey.
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If he comes back next season, more of that silliness, please!
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So you end up in this vortex of beauty and silliness.
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But both he and I also needed the relief of silliness.
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A little more silliness, a touch more naughtiness would be welcome.
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The image underscores the silliness of AK47's "art terrorist" enterprise.
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His comedy has a silliness that veers close to pure nonsense.
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It catches the status quo in all its pomp and silliness.
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As the series went on, it also embraced its essential silliness.
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And the list of silliness like that goes on and on.
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As I ate, I considered the silliness of my initial unease.
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"We're at a point now of total silliness," Corker told reporters.
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People seem to really like our silliness which is really nice!
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I love how much space there is for warmth — and silliness!
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These could help users express ideas with more style or silliness.
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It's nice to have a biography of Gorey, with whatever silliness.
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These games are no lesser for leaning into cuteness and silliness.
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There was lots of silliness and lots of good musical bonding.
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To enjoy Anaconda, you just have to submit to the silliness.
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My silliness makes the kids laugh and the parents relax, too.
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That means an abundance of silliness, absurdity and, of course, destruction.
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It's a fun graphic depicting the everyday silliness of office life.
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All of us like humor, wit, a little bit of silliness.
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I don't need games without room for silliness or self-expression.
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Silliness, it would appear, has been gravely undervalued as a survival strategy.
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It is pure silliness, an idea carried out without restraint or taste.
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Even at its darkest, her comedy is tempered with a physical silliness.
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If you like me, and you like idiotic silliness, you'll love this.
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Mr. Oswalt imbues his character with a combination of desperation and silliness.
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"We do not have time for this kind of silliness," he said.
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But the silliness masks a cynicism that blunts some of the fun.
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Mr. O'Brien's brand of silliness has always been delightfully, often gruesomely askew.
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Everyone totally enjoys themselves and leans into the silliness of it all.
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She retains her frivolousness and silliness but is now introspective and kind.
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Ideally, the EEOC would rewrite the silliness of a hostile work environment.
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CA (California) + NOODLES CANOODLES VA MOOSE got me started on this silliness.
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The future of rap lies in silliness, absurdism, functionalism, and sonic delight.
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The silliness does seem to have died, like the nicknaming you speak of.
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It is a column that has touched my soul with its deep silliness.
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But it's Spidey's brand of elastic silliness that I think I love most.
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Silliness is the one thing that "Independence Day: Resurgence" has going for it.
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She's been using it for years, and seems aware of its utter silliness.
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Nobody laughs at this silliness but the Joker, but that's because he's insane.
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Her absolute silliness is the condition of her wisdom, and maybe vice versa.
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Here were the everyday occurrences, the celebrity guests, the backstage birthdays and silliness.
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"That's the silliness of Trump's tweet saying Obama tapped him," Mr. Dean said.
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It not only revels in its silliness, it lets the audience in on it.
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This silliness is hard to describe — and also worth watching more than once.6.
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There is the occasional priapic silliness and the title is unwieldy if not awful.
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Of course, that's just some of the silliness fans can expect in Dear Dictator.
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And I'm willing to forgive a lot of the silliness that enables the action.
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But even those moments of silliness and bad faith arguments served a higher purpose.
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Public understanding of the space has also been hindered by an abundance of silliness .
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Mr. Shapiro slams them for their silliness and ignorance and raunch, the women particularly.
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There's something about lowbrow humor and silliness that is a real spice of life.
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He does get saddled with romantic silliness and lots of "half-breed" put-downs.
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The sexual and racial undercurrents eddy and swirl under a surface of pure silliness.
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His telling is devoid of silliness (even when articulating various barnyard animals) or sentimentality.
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Anthony, whatever his faults as a player, absorbed the team president's silliness with dignity.
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This kind of silliness and purposeful provocation on race is D'Souza's bread and butter.
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For all of his reputed darkness, gleeful silliness is just as integral to Carlin's success.
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Macklemore, who was born Benjamin Haggerty, seems to be enjoying the silliness of it all.
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But you can still appreciate -- or throw up, depending on whether you're salty -- their silliness.
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The monthly molting brings with it silliness like Secret Life of Pets and Tropic Thunder.
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I am actually interested in talking about the problems in this country, this is silliness.
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Were they about abject silliness, or a political senility, or an exercise in depraved cynicism?
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He said it would be "silliness" to address lawmakers who had tried to impeach him.
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With each degree of awareness comes a corresponding loss — of silliness, of whimsy, of childhood.
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All of the silliness aside, Bellator 187 confirmed the Machiavellian genius of promoter, Scott Coker.
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The silliness of each world he created at times trumped the morals of the stories.
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It isn't aiming to expose silliness in order to shame people into changing their mindsets.
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And there's a silliness inherent in this hierarchy — something everyone seems to know except them.
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People think — and understandably, if we're logical beings — that [believing in ghosts] is all silliness.
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" Pompeo fired back, accusing Menendez of making a "political soliloquy" and Democrats of political "silliness.
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The silliness of the script is gradually revealed as part of this fantastical coping mechanism.
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Yet despite the silliness, Stamaty actually values dishwashing as a metaphor for the creative process.
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He spent years cultivating an air of rumpled silliness, which looks like authenticity to many Britons.
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On screen, we have a different silliness and absurdity as the heightened version of ourselves vs.
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No other server I know of so thoroughly embraces World of Warcraft in all its silliness.
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"It's that sort of behavior that I'm responsible for; I'm responsible for your silliness," Cohen said.
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Regardless, the silliness is dramatic and engaging — and this time around, it was a little uplifting.
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They're great fun, adding to the gory silliness that, somehow, stays faithful to the original text.
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They are phone friends, she tells us, and they banter about sex, stardom, silliness and strategy.
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The only way to liberate ourselves from Trumpism is through politics that rise above Trumpian silliness.
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Then came the roulette wheel of revolving explanations that makes one dizzy because of their silliness.
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Beneath the infectious silliness of her play's adopted genre, the ugly question of internalized racism lurks.
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The d'Arenberg Cube, on the other hand, revels in its own silliness and sense of fun.
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Dion's classmate Esperanza (Sammi Haney), who uses a wheelchair, fuses the show's social consciousness and silliness.
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Instead it focuses on capturing the cruel humor and occasional silliness of the game that inspired it.
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He was easygoing, with enough gravitas to counterbalance his silliness, and she was drawn to the combination.
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" RELATED: Oscars mix politics, silliness and shocking twist ending He added: "I wasn't speechless because we won.
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There's a gladiator-type fight, young Aquaman talking to sharks, flowy hair, and a spirit of silliness.
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It's a convoluted plot and hurtful — and a shame she can't own up to its silliness retrospectively.
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You have to laugh about the silliness of life, or it will bring you way, way down.
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End of the Line's silliness derives directly from its premise: a big man purchased a small man.
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This probably would have gotten tired fast if not for the variety and silliness of the arsenal.
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Reynolds sells the character with a go-for-broke silliness that turns everyone else into background noise.
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Looks and personality-wise, he's like a blonde Jon Hamm (in terms of both height and silliness).
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He felt far too showy and lacked the warmth, silliness and authenticity of the old TG cast.
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Items like t-shirts and singing stuffed animals demonstrate the song's progression from silliness to cultural phenomenon.
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Sadly, Clooney's plot line is the least punchy, but Caesar offers plenty of bighearted silliness to compensate.
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That one factor nearly convinced me that the cost and silliness of subscription services is worth it.
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Speeches saying: "We're going to make America win" and "I care about our children's future" are silliness.
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"Widows," in other words, is a merger—of silliness and perspicacity, of conspiratorial gloom and surprising violence.
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He deserves bonus points, however, for embracing silliness: One car crash involves a truck filled with flour.
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What made him pause his constant movement and silliness to freeze-frame that moment of our life?
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The musical returns to the eccentricity and silliness that got readers on board in the first place.
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We might know ours, but the silliness of relationships in private usually remains a tight-lipped secret.
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In the writers room where the Old Spice ads are assembled, silliness is taken seriously, Kreher says.
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I hope solvers enjoy this mix of silliness (in the theme clues) and toughness (in the rest).
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If you have young people working, you're going to get a lot of silliness, and we were silly.
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It's lowbrow stuff, for sure, but looking back, what's remarkable is how fully Reeves buys into the silliness.
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She's cut from a different cloth, combining wit, beauty, courage, silliness, character and integrity into one spectacular woman.
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Perry turned up the heat for her boyfriend's birthday on Friday while maintaining a healthy dose of silliness.
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If you keep swiping through Martin's Instagram feed, you'll find that unfiltered youthful silliness Martin was talking about.
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Samuel hanging out amidst snowy landscapes, sporting matching outfits with his parents and giggling at their general silliness.
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A skilled ad-libber, Mr. Elliott delighted in the silliness of certain words and the power of repetition.
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Cameras follow Carey as she prepares for a European tour, capturing moments of stress, silliness, and family time.
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He's a jokester Speaking of silliness, the new dad knows how to take a joke and crack one.
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Topping off an extraordinary technical achievement with flamboyance and a touch of silliness is typical of Mr Musk.
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"I don't buy your silliness with your $500 polls you go out and buy overnight," Reid told CNN.
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"We do not have time for this kind of silliness," he said at the time, according to CNN.com.
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"I fight a lot to make sure she never suppresses her silliness because people are staring," he added.
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"I've always wanted to do a show that just spoke honestly and with vulnerability and silliness," Silverman said.
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Well stop this silliness this right now, because Amazon has launched its Free Delvery Week for all customers.
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With a story this ridiculous, a bonus chapter or two of silliness would hardly feel out of place.
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And some of its observations about rom-com silliness are, if not exactly original, at least pretty amusing.
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"I'm responsible for your silliness because I did the same thing for ten years," he told GOP lawmakers.
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Basically, you just dance to the 211 R&B hit "My Boo" with equal parts silliness and seriousness.
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We picked each other up, answered for the other when one was tired and always kept silliness alive.
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Lucha Libre is some of the most professional silliness I've ever seen, and that's directly up my alley.
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A later development is so outlandish that it sets the movie wobbling on the edge of willful silliness.
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She offers more sage honesty mixed with silliness in this special, in which comics discuss love and dating.
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It is the bleakest, most mournful book by an author celebrated for his barbed tongue and high silliness.
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Basically, this show is a celebration of the "female gaze" and all of its silliness, subtleties and seriousness.
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Harding told Romano that it's a combination of syncopation and fantasy video game elements, but also supreme silliness.
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His confidence rivals that of most humans, and we could all borrow a bit of his unabashed silliness.
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Silliness aside, this is a vivid, joyful game that's as fun to watch as it is to play.
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The prediction silliness was prevalent during the primaries with such classics as this prediction of a Clinton-Sen.
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The Rabbit and Robot books are perfect for kids who like their stories with a side of silliness.
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But what I really like about pillows as a medium is the equal-opportunity quality of their silliness.
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Then there was, of course, the sublimely British Monty Python, and the formalist silliness of early Steve Martin.
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If there's a meta-narrative, it has something to do with the inescapable silliness that comes with being human.
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In Tatro's performance, all of Dylan's pain and silliness pokes through at once in a way that's quite heartrending.
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I'm on board with you about the difference between silliness (largely for kids) and sarcasm (mostly for older audiences).
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Even martial arts legends can fall victim to silliness if no one ever questions them on it, after all.
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There's a bunch of busy silliness that's supposed to look like comedy, but the show is only fitfully funny.
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And there's the inherent silliness to Frank's profession, which allows him to drift through life in the first place.
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Don't take all the problems, risks, and sometimes silliness of social media as a reason not to be there.
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But midmeal my waiter popped by the table with a three-foot-high peppermill, rounding out the cartoony silliness.
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"We feel like we need to bring some kind of silliness to this as best we can," Culbertson said.
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The silliness is often in conflict with the way Östlund uses his camera, with precise framings that cause uneasiness.
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SUPERORGANISM Deadpan silliness met hipster cool when the London group Superorganism took the stage, mostly in sunglasses and hoodies.
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"Sadie, Sadie" (season 2, episode 1) Most of this episode is taken up with Max Medina and Dean silliness.
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You can see it in the pictures on these pages: the delight and the whimsy, the silliness and unguardedness.
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All of this wrapped in a package of seeming silliness, which is perhaps its greatest achievement as filmmaking craft.
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Diaz is allowed to win in spite of her relatable silliness; he is able to win because of his.
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"We play up creativity, silliness and delight in areas where most companies focus on utility and convenience," Tan concludes.
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But Zandi, the Moody's economist, called it "silliness" to say the Fed is chiefly responsible for the US slowdown.
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It's time for Trump and McConnell to end the silliness, and kill the legislative filibuster once and for all.
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Gliding and burbling, ringing and spattering and glitching, that lyricism animates an album whose loveliness and silliness are inextricable.
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When Arya says most of the people on her list are dead already, Sansa seems to take it as silliness.
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It's a fantasy comic echoing the feel of being a Dungeon Master, and there's plenty of silliness to go around.
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Yet its mix of slapstick silliness and gentle satire has given it a successful afterlife on DVD and streaming services.
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"The rally that we've had so far this year is just undoing the silliness that happened last December," said Chiavarone.
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"I'm responsible for your silliness, because I did the same thing that you're doing now, for 10 years," he said.
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The world premiere of "Knightlife" struck a refreshing balance of silliness and sophistication, as it lovingly parodied ballet's chivalrous conventions.
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She said she "spent two-plus days on the RV," calling the plane narrative "election-year silliness," according to Politico.
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The problem is, that approach didn't work for "The Family," and after two episodes it's nudging "American Gothic" toward silliness.
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Guided by the director's idiosyncratic, near-vérité style, their relationship unfolds in loose-limbed conversations that mute the background silliness.
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Saturn is the planet of rules and boundaries—and it's been retrograde since April, allowing space for rebellion and silliness.
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Signaling the show's silliness in the opening scene are over-the-top knitwear appendages by the costume designer, Christopher Metzger.
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But I think I might have burnt my bridges with the outright silliness of so much of what I've done.
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It shifts seamlessly from robust silliness to sensual dreaminess, as the mind tends to through the course of successive whiskies.
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A full accounting of the silliness of "From the Land of the Moon" requires revealing a surprise near the end.
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The 3-year-old enjoyed her gift with such delight and was oblivious to any of the silliness that occurred.
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The stories would say, 'When is "The Tonight Show" going to stop the silliness and get back to substantive issues?
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Billy is an irreducible figure, grounded in the same sort of elemental silliness that keeps kids up at sleepover parties.
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But one gets the sneaking suspicion it's also for the intrinsic silliness of beefing and even hip-hop as phenomena.
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Gliding and burbling, ringing and spattering and glitching, a lyrical escapism animates an album whose loveliness and silliness are inextricable.
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Then Christopher Nolan came along more than a decade after them to once again save Batman from his worst enemy: silliness.
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These movies hinge on how silly people act when they're high, and then they extrapolate that silliness into their entire world.
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Yet Eve's finest quality is the thrill of a confident filmmaker working with material that risks silliness, and pulling it off.
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Sometimes a sketch can succeed by aiming a tiny nugget of silliness squarely at your funny bone, and doing little else.
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Sensation slides into silliness in "The Changeling," a 1622 tragedy — with generous dollops of comedy — by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
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Indeed, for all TerraVia's silliness right now, Soylent's been engaged in a circuitous PR game of its own for months now.
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No matter how stoic or serious any Doctor may seem, there's always an undercurrent of silliness and a desire for fun.
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"I see myself in her, and she sees herself in me: the kindness, the love, the playfulness, the silliness," Durek says.
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This all sounds very silly—Turd Burgling, poop crimes, an amateur investigation—but American Vandal is deadly serious about its silliness.
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Critics might reject Serenity for its silliness, or its failure to make a sophisticated sense out of all its patchwork elements.
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All you really need to know is that those who map its perilous paths onstage are experts in pursuing silliness seriously.
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They had followed it through all its stages of silliness and excess and torpor — and, yes, its occasional moments of transcendence.
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While it's inspiring a lot of silliness that it's better than literature, it's still a hugely impactful and amazing audiovisual spectacle.
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What a perfect joke about the silliness of band names and the currency and self-importance of being in a band.
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The tone also proves difficult to sustain: Material like this walks a tightrope over silliness, and Shepard occasionally loses his balance.
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Her openness to the world is a rare thing in a commodity-driven scene that values distraction and silliness over responsibility.
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"It's a safe haven for people that are seeing the world on fire and being like, 'I need silliness,'" he said.
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If popular reaction really is inclined to dismiss the T-shirt shirt as silliness, then "dismissal" should be the operative word.
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She found that she loved being an editorial assistant at Glamour, loved the mix of fashion and politics, civics and silliness.
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The first act floats along on a wave of silliness, with cooking taking place only haphazardly but singing breaking out repeatedly.
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"It's really nice to come home and unwind and enjoy the irreverence and silliness and drama," says one of them, Amy.
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At Nashville, Tennessee's Elephant Gallery, The Clown Show is bringing visitors the silliness we so desperately need in these dark times.
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Silliness is also visible in another of Faigeles's works — a painting of a face that sports a ridiculous, pasted-on mustache.
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Even if a fart button seems juvenile, you have to crack a smile at the silliness and admit it's a fun feature.
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As is the way online, it spiraled into silliness, and was filtered through other popular meme categories until it barely made sense.
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The real star is the physics engine, which creates an inherent silliness and chaos that attempting to simulate things accurately can bring.
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"I think there's gonna be a mix of silliness and personal stories and baby mentions and relationship mentions and nonsense," Notaro says.
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He either had to ask me out on a real date, in person, or I would put an end to this silliness.
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The play, so clear in its moments of joy and silliness and brotherly bickering, gets squishy and vague in depicting Markus's anguish.
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The sole upshot of St. Pierre's dropping the middleweight title is that it ends a year of silliness in the middleweight division.
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With the right creative team, I think The Mikado could be adapted in a way that its silliness and comedy would shine.
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Men could afford to give up fastpitch for the silliness of slowpitch because they still had baseball—women didn't have that option.
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We need one that protects real inventions without burdening industry with silliness like patents on PB&J sandwiches or one-touch scanners.
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I am so grateful for the opportunity that Mr. Kraft and Coach Belichick gave to me when drafting my silliness in 2010.
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It's literally a head-the-ball simulator, and those balls come thick and fast, but it's shot through with very British silliness.
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If you hate me but love idiotic silliness, you'll appreciate this as a noble stab at something original while not actually laughing.
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And the film skewers the silliness of being a "social media star" without dismissing the reasons why a person might become one.
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It is at this point that the movie, which has been motoring along nicely, fuelled by silliness and pep, begins to splutter.
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Much like Jefferson Airplane's awkward transformation to the bloated silliness of Jefferson Starship, the 80s sound was a strange fit for Mitchell.
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The challenge to commit verse to memory grows in later sections, though rhyming and silliness give the longer poems a mnemonic boost.
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I could, if I looked inside myself, find the bleak silliness of death and laugh at it, which defanged it, a little.
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On "The Tonight Show," Claire Danes will talk about the end of "Homeland" and probably get roped into some silliness with Fallon.
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It's warm and human, full of rage and righteous indignation, as well as delight in well-told jokes and well-placed silliness.
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In combining sport and a tradition of seaside-postcard silliness, Roberts tickles a funny bone that is peculiarly British, but also universal.
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But they may have reached peak silliness on The Graham Norton Show, where Lawrence recounted one of her less-proud moments in life.
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"You need somebody who actually gets why films are great and can tell you the ins and outs and the silliness of movies."
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Datta presided over an "adda", a regular gathering of thinkers and writers who mixed "seriousness and silliness" as they discussed culture and politics.
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In order to craft that sweet, sweet reality television magic, it's theorized that The Bachelorette producers often have a hand in the silliness.
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But the tone eclipsed the substance, and the tone was nastier than it had to be, sometimes to the point of pure silliness.
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I chalked this up to the usual pre-release silliness; how could a brand-new game be anything like something released in 1986?
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Journalism deserves a lot of criticism for lots of things, silliness and getting things wrong, in general, it's always trying to be better.
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Then, on Sunday, children can switch gears and enjoy some pure Muppet silliness in Brian Henson's 653 movie adaptation of a literary classic.
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It simply describes a cognitive shift in which the person suddenly felt the enormity of the universe and the silliness of human squabbles.
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"Of course you're free to think anything you like about the 'silliness' of my voice and my face," the actress wrote on Twitter.
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The clunky acting and grainy footage are perfectly suited for surrealism's inherent silliness, but be sure that you can take these pieces seriously.
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It could mean less silliness, like the $6-a-bottle "asparagus water" that turned up in a California store a couple years ago.
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The gleeful silliness of the genre makes Raw the more affecting, just as werewolf-y stupidity made Ginger Snaps the sadder by contrast.
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A little of both: The spookiness leans heavily on the score's crashing organs and jarring strings, and some of the silliness isn't unintentional.
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For all its active silliness, the movie holds on to that familial through line in a way that's appealing and, ultimately, oddly moving.
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That's a solid deflection, but Tillerson has been in the Trump administration since February -- long enough to see this kind of silliness coming.
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It's a clue from today's puzzle that made me snort because it was such an unexpected bit of silliness, so I'm commemorating it.
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The fabulous Janet McTeer is Petruchio in this all-female production, which though hardly subtle finds substance in its go-for-broke silliness.
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In today's much gloomier climate, silliness has yielded to the serious work of stifling speech and academic freedom in ever-more insidious ways.
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The relative freedom and silliness in the game's weapon modification options and crafting was definitely something that added another layer to my enjoyment.
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This weird juxtaposition between everyday problems, people, relationships and wholly unexplained supernatural silliness is precisely what gives Little Dragon Cafe its undeniable charm.
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Such gestures of rebellion may be futile, even ridiculous, and both "Museo" and "Güeros" note the silliness and self-delusions of their characters.
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To the Movies" features all the rocket-paced action and jovially juvenile silliness that thrill fans of the TV series "Teen Titans Go!
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With its neurotic silliness and its linguistic obsessiveness, the text also seems to owe a debt to the quirky writer-director René Pollesch.
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When we met, he was a sweet vigorous man in his early 50s who shared my love of theater, books, friends and silliness.
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"Wow in the World" — Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas, radio and podcast stars, serve up science news with a heavy dose of silliness.
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En masse, the injury reports help to demystify the lives of these ancient creatures, which were fraught with danger and, sometimes, slapstick silliness.
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"The total silliness, that they used the Patriot Act act as a basis for the subpoena in the first place," Mr. Freeman said.
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Everything about the experience is exceedingly silly, but there is a lot of thought and technique and effort behind making that silliness work.
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Soon, sirens are flashing and the movie darkens; a few beats later, it brightens, then swerves into silliness only to veer into seriousness.
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The No Pants Subway Ride began in the U.S. in 2002 started by Improv Everywhere — a group that celebrates silliness in public places.
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Many have already ditched the status updates and smarmy Life Events of Facebook for the pretty pictures of Instagram and silliness of Snapchat.
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Mr. Stevenson shifted easily from light social commentary to a silliness that often had its roots in art, current events or old jokes.
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It's true that Sweet/Vicious enjoys its light-hearted fare—the Odd Couple dynamic, talks of superheroes, sarcastic one-liners, and sorority silliness.
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Beyond the poll's surface-level silliness, however, it also appears to reveal some insights into how audiences correlate the ideas of "goodness" and beauty.
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West is straitlaced and silly in the role because comic book stories lend themselves to silliness, even when they're trying to be taken seriously.
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There is high cultural commentary, and there is lowbrow, nearly pedantic commentary on the random moments of silliness and stupidity that make up life.
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Their inherent silliness was all the giddy evenings I'd spent breaking into graveyards and smoking weed in the grass with people I barely knew.
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It's a strong start, with Gunn calling back to the original's opening while emphasizing that there will be even more silliness this time around.
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You don't get mad at the game when you fumble an object; you just laugh at the silliness of it all and try again.
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I finally got around to it the other weekend, and the film's comedy really is quite often surprisingly timeless and fun in its silliness.
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The whole run and all the similar ones that follow make for pure silliness, with no point besides the sheer delight of hearing it.
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Cohen responded to Gosar by saying the poster represented the "daily destruction" and "silliness" brought by Trump's allies in trying to defend the president.
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Like a number of Smith's novels, it doesn't know when to end—usually an element of her joyful profligacy—and trundles along into silliness.
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The ability to select schools issuing teacher-to-family report cards devoid of all the SEL silliness ought to be well within parental prerogatives.
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DeMarco is known for his wacky humor, but with This Old Dog, he's shed some of the silliness and gotten a little more serious.
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"These guys have a golden opportunity to make massive change, and they're squandering it with all this silliness," said one of Washington's top lobbyists.
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It's easy to take Mr. O'Brien's gift for refined silliness for granted, since he has been doing the job for nearly a quarter century.
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Even in such spotty passages, it is the movie's saving grace that its family acting troupe faces the gobbledygook with openhearted silliness and sincerity.
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María Fernanda Cardoso and Ross Rudesch Harley's 1997 video "Cardoso Flea Circus (Circo de pulgas Cardoso)" is a confident bout of high-concept silliness.
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But there was a purpose to the silliness, Mr. Gilbert, who is stepping aside after eight years as music director, said in the interview.
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Somehow both bombastic and impeccably subtle, Russel T. Davies' Years and Years does politics without preachiness, sci-fi without silliness, and drama without melodramatics.
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I suspect most people feel un-fun if they don't inject some kind of witticism or silliness into what is an otherwise banal transaction.
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The macabre poignance of the first two-thirds of the film swiftly devolves into silliness, ending on a note that is neither heartbreaking nor horrific.
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I was struggling to sell tickets for a concert with Lil Jon, and decided to integrate a little bit of silliness into my selling strategy.
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Because this is Hrabal, in whose work beauty, pity, sorrow and high silliness come tightly braided, both versions have prevailed; there is no official narrative.
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I haven't played enough to speak to its merits as a game, but there's nothing else at Tribeca with the same vulgar, high-concept silliness.
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George Romero's influential 1968 film Night of the Living Dead is a somber affair, but it has the seeds of silliness staggering around in it.
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It's something that's traveled a lot more, had a lot more impact, and maybe, for all it's inherent silliness, changed the way we perceive masculinity.
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Parody XXXSometimes you don't want to take yourself too seriously when watching porn, so embrace that silliness by checking out parody porn on Parody XXX.
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On Friday, the 26-year-old model shared an epic throwback photo to her younger days on Instagram, laughing about the silliness in its caption.
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His voice, heavy at times and occasionally tired, doesn't detract from the narrative, but rather allows for the occasional silliness to vibrate through the doldrums.
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Proving the internet can be an unpredictable wave of silliness, controversial Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks is having a big, mysterious Monday on Twitter.
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I thought it was the kind of thing we do live, the goofy silliness of our live show, but that it wasn't for a record.
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It's far more tasteful than the ignorant silliness of saying disrespectful things on a record because you're a child and you're acting like a child.
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If you're in the market for an hour of listening that has zero politics but lots of silliness and talk of cheekbones, step right up.
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If you've seen "Dazed and Confused" or "Superbad" you'll recognize the mood of aggressive silliness and sincere sentiment that hovers over Molly and Amy's adventures.
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And while on the surface it's an extremely funny and silly thing to think about—there's also a layer of sadness that goes beyond silliness.
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The newly released second season of "Cupcake & Dino" is as perky and warm as the first, and its cheery silliness is appropriate for most ages.
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The makeup effects and lead performances are excellent, and Fessenden's signature cheek (two strip-club employees are called Stormy and Melania) never tips into silliness.
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And for silliness, there was Procol Harum's "Conquistador" with the Forces of Nature dancers in bell-bottoms and fringed tops, prancing like some 1960s shindig.
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He brought a light touch to his satire -- acknowledging partisan division and poking at Trump without seeming mean-spirited -- and an overall silliness to the proceedings.
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" Though she will be watching the finale, Holdsworth admits she is not "absolutely obsessed" with what she describes as "just a bit of silliness with dragons.
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The photos first appeared on Udovitch's fundraising Facebook page and acted as an injection of fun and silliness to get people talking about a serious subject.
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For me, that nugget of silliness is apparently an eagle in formal wear who once met with Nelson Mandela and Howie Mandel at the same time.
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Constructed of snapshot recollections of a teenager who killed himself, it's clear in its moments of joy and silliness but squishy and vague in depicting anguish.
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Steve Pond, The Wrap: The clunkiness and silliness that surrounded lead actors Dane DeHaan and Cara Delivingne had me actively disliking them and everything around them.
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Anthony Germaine, another Pittsburgh supporter, dismissed the initial focus on Bill Clinton's infidelities as "silliness" — but said Trump overall "did a lot better" than last time.
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Here are a few examples with some emojiology analysis from Emojipedia: The upside-down face 🙃 It's the emoji that commonly is used to express silliness.
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The experience is produced by VR studio Wevr, which also worked on the frenetic Reggie Watts experience Waves — and like Waves, Old Friend is pure silliness.
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Rand Paul, for one, won't miss Trump, telling CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that Trump only brought "silliness, bombast and empty rhetoric" to the previous debates.
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For all its silliness, Happy Gilmore is also a sort of time capsule for the last few years of golf in the pre-Tiger Woods era.
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The latest edition, "Sharknado 5: Global Swarming," hardly reverses that trend but does fleetingly feel a bit more energetic, raining down a relentless barrage of silliness.
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Still, with its slightly unorthodox hosting tandem, the comedy often veered into silliness, such as a pointless gag that involved giving audience members free flu shots.
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What do you think about criticisms that say the ICO market is oversaturated and over-hyped , and that Goatse coin is the latest example of silliness?
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Curiosity landed on Mars with two central computing systems, Side-A and Side-B (not left brain and right brain — that would invite too much silliness).
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The kind of trite, feel-good sing-along videos that might have seemed like harmless silliness a month ago suddenly feel like adding insult to injury.
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But he keeps at it long enough that the last blip of the theme — after seven full bars of nothing — becomes a wink of sublime silliness.
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And partly it was because four years of war and its difficult aftermath were finally lifting, allowing America to indulge a long-suppressed taste for silliness.
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Zuckerberg misunderstands the huge threat of TikTok Instagram, and Instagrammers, may have to lose their artful, cool aesthetic to embrace the silliness of tomorrow's social entertainment.
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A few years ago I wrote a post about the deployment versus innovation fight, its history and its silliness; read that if you want more background.
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While most viewers would write-off the encounter as playing into Scott's signature level of silliness, there's actually a lot of darkness lurking beneath the short scene.
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But they undeniably brought levity to the show with their silliness — they once pulled a twin-swap during a date — and refreshing willingness to laugh at themselves.
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Yours is a super power indeed; to not see colour to is to be immune to the silliness of that thing called racism that no longer exists.
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Though he attempted to use a "modesty rag" to prevent from being seen, one doctor stressed the silliness of his worries and the seriousness of his health.
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Mr. LePage, a Republican, said that it would be "silliness" for him to face lawmakers just a couple weeks after some of them tried to impeach him.
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Judging from the promo released Tuesday, the duo will still be up to their usual silliness; Cord even admitted he has "stress odor" because he's so excited.
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Oof. This is a survival date in Lake Tahoe — I know there's a lot of talk about the silliness of these "destinations," but Tahoe seems cool, okay!
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Instead, there are players who enjoy the silliness, the absolute goofiness, of a theme park that just seems to be a little under the weather right now.
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While there are doubtlessly a fair few supporters who have limited patience when it comes to transfers, the 'announce' phenomenon has become self-referential in its silliness.
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He's promising more detailed health information and a sit-down with Dr. Oz, who is Trump with a stethoscope, approaching matters of great seriousness with great silliness.
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"The idea of silliness requires shared assumptions about what is sensible," the columnist Rafael Behr wrote in The Guardian, focusing on the rise of Donald J. Trump.
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There's a clown-like silliness to the characters that matches so well with the action, which is all paired with incredibly impressive acrobatics and slapstick physical comedy.
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Related Student Crossword | Classic Children's Books Lesson Plan | Serious Silliness: High School Reading and Writing Inspired by Dr. Seuss Student Question | What Are Your Favorite Children's Books?
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"I'm responsible for your silliness because I did the same thing that you're doing now for 10 years," Cohen told Republicans at the House Oversight Committee hearing.
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Annie is funny and some of her friends are funny, so there's plenty of conversational silliness — jokes made for other characters' benefit and not for the audience's.
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Massachusetts teen Syon Khosla was expecting the same kind of silliness when his special request was for someone to tell a joke on his Domino's delivery box.
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But the '90s silliness of the series and its main protagonist, Hasselhoff's Mitch Buchannon, is undercut by an undeniable earnestness that complicates its adaptation to modern comedy.
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The sublime silliness of Monty Python has always had an intellectual underpinning; not many comedy troupes have sung about Heidegger and Descartes or joked about summarizing Proust.
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"On the internet, there is often silliness," she said while marching up the stairs toward the skeleton of a blue whale and the bust of Charles Darwin.
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Even Jimmy Fallon, whose stage persona remains sunny and easygoing, often takes on politics, mostly by emphasizing the silliness — not the severity — of what unfolds in Washington.
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Like the better titles in this series, it leans on primal fears — the unknown, the certainty of death — and solid actors who can deliver the silliness straight.
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Consulting an expert ensures that you're not mistaking a serious behavioral or medical issue as animal silliness, and that you're tackling your pet's destructive tendencies head-on.
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The deep and intrinsic silliness of cricket, I think, all that fair play and honorable draw stuff, makes it ideally suited for male social control in India.
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It can turn silliness into enchantment, make myth real, or — even in a work of pure dance — make us feel how the sublime coexists with the comic.
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In all their silliness, adorned with bowler hats and ill-fitting pants, they transform the pomp and privilege of powerful men into a game of dress-up.
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Of course, the system is fundamentally very limited — it just works with text, it gets less coherent as it goes on, and it frequently produces nonsensical silliness.
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There's a lot of silliness in this show, especially when it comes to its demon mythology and its stories about Satan's plans to take over the world.
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From pallin' around with puppies or Justin Bieber to some Hump Day silliness, here are the 10 filters we're hoping the brilliant folks at Snapchat will create someday.
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In terms of new series, the popular themes this season include escapism, nostalgia (in the form of reboots, movie adaptations and returning stars) and a bit of silliness.
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Sure, Murray's character comes around to the warm fuzzies at the end, but in his grumbling, he might just tip you off about the silliness of Groundhog Day.
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Some of these Fiverr performers go viral and are able to transmute the radical silliness of their craft into a legitimate career, outside of someone else's viral videos.
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As with any price surge, there are solid reasons for a rally, but the gains have now reached a point where they have entered the realms of silliness.
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Indeed, the essential silliness of this aspect of the case was later confirmed by another prosecution witness, Frankie Vargas, a fellow-inmate of Nunez's at the county jail.
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It can all be a bit much, frankly -- the smart-aleck-y banter and silliness can easily wear thin -- in the same way the gore pushes the envelope.
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Lithgow is a clever choice to play Ferrell's pop, and they manage to conjure some silliness -- at least, when they aren't getting decked by one projectile or another.
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Initially, silliness balances sentimentality; later in the season, when the series turns somber to confront its body count, there is nothing maudlin in its picture of self-reckoning.
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McConnell also mocked a Washington Post report about Kavanaugh's debt, saying it was an example of the "silliness" that Republicans believe surrounds reporting on Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
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"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," for all its atmospheric talk, has no such subtext, and its glib silliness is never more apparent than when it tries for strong emotions.
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And all these shallow musings come at the expense of what makes the Turtles really great: the unabashed silliness and fun we've come to expect from the franchise.
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But the spirit of horror that pervades Mr. Bacon's work at its best is missing, replaced by a silliness that doesn't quite rise to the level of parody.
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SCOTT HELLER EXPERT USE OF COLD CUTS The sublime silliness Mark Rylance got up to with a piece of white bread, a slice of baloney and — oh, eww!
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This silliness led to "Black Monday" in August 2011, when markets fell in response to the downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ by Standard & Poor's.
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Molière's sparkling wit still comes through beautifully, but Lenk resists succumbing to silliness the way Fritsch does, a decision informed, at least in part, by her source material.
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It will be screened with "The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film," a briefer monument to silliness that Mr. Lester made with Peter Sellers in 2274-20986-8110, filmforum.
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And I don't have to explain the cartoon silliness of it—that's a Bomberman, and so's that, and that too, and they blow each other off the board.
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Some of this—the stern silliness of the complaint and the lingering whiff of insignificance—has to do with the fact that the tragicomic Knicks were the offended party.
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In emphasizing both Rudy's silliness and enterprising spirit, "Dolemite Is My Name" might reflect how much attitudes have changed since the Blaxploitation era died down in the late 1970s.
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In the DC Extended Universe, Supergirl has distinguished itself with its higher power level and overtly political plotlines, while The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow lean into superhero silliness.
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It's also, despite the rampant silliness, a lot smarter than it seems, and that's saying something for a movie in which the protagonist lets loose an excruciatingly long fart.
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The writing also manages to find humor and silliness in normally very dramatic moments, but then sometimes a bear opens up a man's face like it was a book.
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While it comes with a certain amount of fantasy silliness, the core there is fundamentally different than the deep competitive violence at the core of The Hunger Games arena.
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For the past week, Cruz has tried to brush off Trump's broadsides as political silliness, but on Tuesday he suggested Trump's comments reflected his cozy relationship with prominent Democrats.
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Smart companies should embrace that reality and allow staff to occasionally curate their own silliness from Instagram by using a certain tag to show (appropriate) content on work displays.
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There is plenty of low comedy as well, a bracing silliness that places Austen in the line of British humor that extends through P. G. Wodehouse to Monty Python.
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President Trump, please stop the hypocrisy, please stop lying, please stop the silliness and please try to govern and not ruin the greatest democracy the world has ever seen.
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Considerations of things meta, in any case, take a back seat to the straight-faced pursuit of silliness via tatty hand puppets, stencil projections and the occasional homemade diorama.
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Like "This Is the End," Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Rogen's 2013 apocalypse comedy, it embraces the darkness of its premise and answers despair with bursts of nasty, knowing silliness.
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Bulked up for the occasion, Hemsworth remains an enormously appealing lead, capable of pulling off funny lines and slapstick silliness while still inducing swoons when his shirt comes off.
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"Innocents and Others" is a combo-deal of a novel that mixes the silliness of a popcorn romp with the intellectual seriousness of a one-camera talking-head commentary.
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Alejandro also possesses nearly superhuman — if not outright supernatural — survival skills, and "Day of the Sodaldo," for all its lean macho bluster, flirts with silliness as well as sentimentality.
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The second annual Tilt Kids Festival, from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française, combines European sophistication with creative silliness (mostly in English).
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The last production I saw (English National Ballet) at least presented the whole Jardin Animé as the harmless opium dream of the old Pasha, but its essential silliness remained.
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But "6 Underground" proves so uneven in its tone and unrelenting in its volume that it's hard to imagine a hole deep enough in which to bury its silliness.
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Directed by John Rando, with a choice cast of singing shtick artists, "The New Yorkers" makes the most puerile silliness seem deeply sophisticated and high sophistication look sublimely silly.
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Whatever you think about the deal's economic effects (and there has been a lot of silliness on both the left and the right), they were likely to be modest.
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Like the film they made, the creator and cast of "The Last Jedi" can encompass a spectrum of darkness and light, seriousness and silliness, all in the same conversation.
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Evans and Gad are completely game, throwing themselves into the humor and silliness of the Gaston-LeFou dynamic and the blush-inducing surprises woven into songwriter Howard Ashman's songs.
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Historical accuracy be damned — letting the women be the literal lifesavers is a wonderful modern take on this story, which makes a lot of this movie's silliness more tolerable.
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Scott and Everett are terrific in handling material that demands seriousness and silliness by turns, and the movie does enough well that its flaws are tolerable, if not necessarily overlookable.
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Hahn has played Eve-like roles before and she is again wonderful here, a walking sad secret with pretty hair, playing the silliness and the anguish of Eve's horny season.
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As each precise caricature of British snootiness or silliness comes bounding onto the stage, Mr. Mays seems to be challenging himself to elicit bigger laughs, and he almost always succeeds.
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It's full of trippy jump cuts, dancing and family fun, as well as the fabulous image of Lamar eating out of a giant bowl, unperturbed by the silliness surrounding him.
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One senses that Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer didn't completely trust that silliness to stand on its own, but it's only when Popstar reaches for something deeper that it really falters.
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I'm always getting called a half-breed, and on Twitter, when you're fighting with Twitter and even establishment, you go back at them in the same silliness they're giving you.
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He and Clyde used to fear a Logan family curse, but their exploits here—not the plunder alone but the patent elixir of hope, savvy, and silliness—break the spell.
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In 2004 three of the largest wealth-management firms at the time — Merrill Lynch, UBS and Smith Barney — agreed to a "protocol" that, when adhered to, would stop this silliness.
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Its exuberant beats sound like old 8-bit games, evoking triumph, determination, and silliness while celebrating heroes as committed to saving the day as they are joyful to be alive.
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I can't praise the sublime silliness and simplicity of Hoops enough right now—truthfully, I'd much rather be playing it than writing this, so if we could hurry things along.
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Batman & Robin is a celebration of the silliness of a comic-book franchise that once upon a time embraced things like the Bat-Mite and whatever is going on here.
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It embraces an anything-goes spirit that is both in keeping with the distinctive silliness of Gilbert and Sullivan at their best, and establishes its own brand of inspired goofing.
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When I listen to his music, I hear joy, playfulness, silliness—an unrestrained quality that echoes both great experimentalists like Vini Reilly and basement-pop freaks like R. Stevie Moore.
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A Few Thoughts While We Survey the Wreckage: • Eugene remains a wordsmith of great intellect and silliness, speaking to those around him primarily as a form of amusement for himself.
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It's the sheer silliness of the proposition — two fairly primitive civilizations playing each other in what is recognizably a Premier League game of football — that makes Early Man hum along.
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I think a lot of people would watch that show, just like they&aposre watching this silliness today, you know, BILA: Well, also this guy forcing him to reenact those text.
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It's handy once you get beyond the silliness of holding a stylus in your hand while running, and serves as a handy surrogate for those who don't own a compatible smartwatch.
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After a slow, convoluted start, and a depressingly downbeat middle, the film redeems itself with a rousing, all-action finale which combines visual fireworks, tragic grandeur and arch "Flash Gordon" silliness.
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EPISTLE 3 brings that silliness out by making sure all your NPC interactions happen to NPCs that you have just shot, because flailing around shooting things is all you can do.
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Adding a shot of sardonic silliness to any room it occupied, these Garfield phones waited in slumber, only opening their eyes when answered and falling asleep as soon as calls ended.
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And that status-quo-conscious Mommy, incarnated with steely silliness by Ms. Fraser, prefigures a host of hypocritical, life-stifling society ladies whom Mr. Albee will also render again and again.
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The grinding tug-of-war over Puerto Rico debt proved that such agreements are rare achievements to be celebrated, notwithstanding the complaints of interest groups grandstanding for the renewable power silliness.
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But it's Mr. Chapman, bald with a beard pointy enough to poke an eye out, who really commands attention, with a turn that pushes cracked madness right over into cartoon silliness.
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But his cartoons were always so lurid, so gaudy, tactless, and fundamentally stupid that they were effectively defanged; all his poisonous ideology was neutered by the sheer silliness of its presentation.
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The Witcher 3 got a lot of attention for its sex-on-the-back-of-a-stuffed-fantasy-beast scene—even Conan O'Brien found space to highlight its sweetly kinky silliness.
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Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's "Dear Dictator" wastes a potential gold mine of culture-clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.
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"Intervention" (season 33, episode 18) "Intervention" is an hour of almost pure silliness between the grief of "The Body" and the escalation to war over the four episodes that follow it.
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But I'm a little puzzled as to why Out of the Shadows utterly lacks joy and silliness and prioritizes scowl, when the entire Ninja Turtles franchise is built on having fun.
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That recorder breakdown doubles as a reminder that, for all their silliness, McKenzie and Clement have always been talented multi-instrumentalists with a keen ear for genre- and era-specific sounds.
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With a winning combination of style, silliness, and earnestness that's tempered with sarcasm, Chung and France are a refreshing answer to the fashion personalities we've grown accustomed to seeing on television.
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" The effort, she added, sometimes "led to a kind of silliness," when they could reach only minor agreement, but "the process was very good in terms of finding ways (toward) consensus.
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Dana White, the top DOD spokesperson, told me it was "pure silliness" to conclude Mattis is out of the president's decision-making loop, the same response she gave to NBC News.
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" His chief of staff, Jane Slusser, provided art: Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey issued a statement inviting the Eagles to the Capitol instead and Governor Tom Wolf called the President's move "political silliness.
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Google was something of a wearables pioneer with Glass back in 2013, but the consumer-facing version of that product was never able to overcome its inherent privacy concerns and general silliness.
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He sees some of the silliness associated with the Polish startup scene and he's not afraid to call out their mistakes and try to help small companies trying to make it big.
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Check out the graffiti artist creating a mural, dive into Snapfiesta's Ball Pit Photo Booth to capture all manner of silliness, or relax, chill and chat in the Super Mario Brother's Lounge.
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Though there are myriad ways to celebrate the life and legacy of Sir Roger Moore, we recommend starting that journey with the epic and wonderful silliness of the Moonraker orbital laser showdown.
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The most fun performances to watch are the ones by performers who sink their teeth into the silliness of the premise, and go big and bold without a scrap of self-consciousness.
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Besides the silliness of those remarks, much of the "entrenched partisanship" he bemoans is the direct product of his own intensely partisan leadership and open race-baiting over the past eight years.
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"I'm a person who has been in recovery from a couple of different 'isms and one universal quality that I've found to get through it is dark jokes and silliness," Noxon says.
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Consider it a brief moment of silliness and fun to distract you from the touristy, sanity-draining hellscape that Times Square can often be for those other 23 hours and 57 minutes.
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But creator Mike Schur's NBC sitcom is a comedic marvel not just because it's aping intro-level college courses; it's also a weekly dose of brilliant silliness, expert performances, and copious warmth.
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All my belated enjoyment of the silliness of the first Fifty Shades movie propelled me to a theater (nearly 100% full of women) to see Fifty Shades Darker on its opening night.
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Mr. Shalhoub can no longer cover for the silliness and thinness of the plots or entertain us during the long gaps between when we solve the case and when the characters do.
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She, too, was an embodiment of that tornado that is girlhood—that glorious whirlwind of silliness and sophistication that seems to dance and spin and touch down just exactly where it likes.
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Occasionally, the veneer of Conceptual austerity gives way to sight gag silliness, as when her 218 "Napoleonic Series" depicts the behatted French Emperor as smudgy, penile-shaped bars in a bar graph.
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The voice of Twitter and the internet, which demands that everyone politicize their identity, mashing up high and low references while matching the silliness of pop culture in tone, would've horrified Sontag.
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On the one hand, this whole night at The Rising Sun felt a bit like someone's end-of-year foundation show, but this same ad-hoc silliness also made it so much fun.
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Edlund's newest take on the Tick's bizarro world values the bleak realism of Arthur's teetering mental state as much as it does finding new ways to joke about the inherent silliness of superheroes.
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Stalking Ines' life and all over her social calendar, Winfried's fool is just the tonic required, skewering the pretensions of the suits while forcing Ines to embrace her own quashed sense of silliness.
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While there was validity in many of the criticisms, a degree of silliness crept into the discussion, starting with those who actually signed a petition petulantly demanding some kind of cosmic do-over.
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However, if this one takes lessons from the QX80, which I consider one of the best big SUVs on the road today (minus the Infiniti silliness), the 2017 Armada should be extremely rewarding.
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But the filmmakers play the fan service as pure silliness, giving the whole sequence a self-aware twist that feels more in line with The Lego Movie than the original Wreck-It Ralph.
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Mr Anderson's lackadaisical plotting and largely indistinguishable canine characters prevent "Isle of Dogs" from being especially exciting or touching, but there's enough arch comedy and outright silliness to get his fans' tails wagging.
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But these are commonplaces, and without a plausible link back to the real world—some insidious force in the culture we can recognize amplified in the dystopia—the film's overall effect is silliness.
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It has the blend of silliness and seriousness that marks so much older rap—from De La Soul to Wu-Tang Clan—but often is lacking in more contemporary revivals of those sounds.
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That's still plenty alive here, with funny scenes centered on about the roundness of Captain America's peach-shaped bottom, the physical silliness of Mark Ruffalo's oversized Hulk, and Thor's lunkiness adding needed levity.
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I tried to be as silly as possible with the cluing of the theme answers, but some were a little too "out there," so Will changed a few to tone down the silliness.
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Banks leans on the laughs and silliness, the glitter and glamour, all while setting the Angels against cartoonish male villainy (Jonathan Tucker plays a menacing exception), which becomes a metaphor for patriarchal power.
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There is always something new to mock — so much seriousness and silliness, so much sound and spectacle, so much strenuous novelty and lazy cliché, so many anthems and earworms to sample and subvert.
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An uncomfortable blend of sickness and silliness, this dancing-past-the-graveyard comedy suggests that the many travails of aging can be endured if you only gather enough friends and surrender enough dignity.
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After a pleasant excursion with the soon-to-be newlyweds, Nick's boyhood friend Colin (Chris Pang) and his fiancée, Araminta (Sonoya Mizuno), the family drama and the peripheral silliness kick into high gear.
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The ratio of jokes to screen time is satisfyingly high, and there are few stretches that aren't enlivened by humor that, joke by joke, with silliness and caustic asides, also deepens the movie.
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Season 6, Episode 10 "The One With The Routine" Finally, Friends rings in the year 2000 with all the silliness, low-rise jeans, and one-liner quips that can fit into 30 minutes.
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Whereas other songs dabble in tradition, silliness, and the perceived spectacle of the holiday, it's one of the album's more straightforwardly spiritual moments, grounded in multi-part harmonies and barely-there guitar picking.
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Even though I wasn't a big fan of the first season, I could see the show embracing its silliness and, with the exposition out of the way, getting better in its second season.
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The primary avatars -- Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Jack Black -- seem to be having an awfully good time with all this silliness, which is mildly infectious, even when the movie sags.
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The United States and India on Wednesday agreed to grow defense and technology ties as Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE said "the noise and the silliness" of impeachment proceedings would not distract the Trump administration from protecting the country.
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Together for more than 40 years (1946 to 1987), their slow-burn silliness drew explosive laughs not through jackhammer punch lines, but with long pauses, unorthodox word choices and a total commitment to characters.
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" REVIEW: Oscars mix politics, silliness, shock ending Accountancy firm investigating mix-up PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accountancy firm that is responsible for winners' envelopes, issued an apology for the mistake and said it was "immediately corrected.
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Those have been fruitful years for the stars of "Zombieland: Double Tap," providing key assets to a movie that offers gore, comedy and just plain silliness, but falls somewhat short of a complete meal.
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Deadpool is a lot of things, but the one thing he's absolutely known for is his almost-ceaseless silliness as he slices his way through his foes and the fourth wall in equal measure.
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I've seen too many bad or trashy items of kitsch, pornography, camp and silliness at the festival, but also a few pieces of memorable dance theater that took me where I hadn't been before.
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As it went along, the game took on the feel of a greatest hits compilation; even if you haven't seen the highlights yet, you have a pretty good idea of their shape and silliness.
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Now that we've cleared our system of all that silliness and excitement, let's discuss the details and implications of the Chevrolet's all-new, long-range electric car that debuted this week at International CES.
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The first of which was a grappling match and saw Gracie stuck underneath the heavyweight judoka in an Ezekiel choke or sode guruma jime if we're getting into the spirit of versus style silliness.
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There's a knowing silliness to Aquaman that helps gloss over its sometimes-shaky CG and over-complicated mythology, and a willingness to go for broke that keeps us guessing about what we'll witness next.
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Maybe Samberg, Taccone, and Schaffer didn't completely trust that silliness to stand on its own But it's hard to not forgive Popstar for its flaws, if only because its ambitions are so inherently silly.
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"Why should I strike, nobody is going to raise my salary... The politicians should work more and stop their silliness," Jose Luis, a Barcelona construction worker, told Reuters TV on his way to work.
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Silliness is not the word for Christophe Lemaire and Sarah-Linh Tran of Lemaire, who are serious, poetic but pragmatic, whose clothes are "always about a woman rooted in real life," Mr. Lemaire said.
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I'm not going to 'stick to sports' the guy by telling him to knock off all the silliness, but did you hear how the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the finals, bruh?
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"I love working with Katie's music because there are so many ideas buried in there to play with, and the silliness and utter beauty of it all lends itself well to animation," said Morton.
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And ultimately, that's probably for the best, because it allows you to fully enjoy the silliness and thrills of a fairly boilerplate shark movie — even if you know they all end the same way.
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Whether tricking people to go watch imaginary lions get imaginary baths in the 1800s or sending people fake invitations to nonexistent parties in France in the 1500s, April Fools' pranks have maintained their silliness.
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I felt like we lost some of the silliness for Catan — for instance, I didn't get to do my favorite bit, which is where I trade a different player for the exact same card.
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And at the end of all the silliness, the final stretch lands some points by suggesting that, even in 2019, it's still possible to sell out — and that selling out remains kind of lousy.
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Take the trade paperback collection of Howard the Duck and the newest issue of Doctor Strange: Howard is pure chaos, meta-gags, and silliness that extends even into the comic's covers and press material.
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But Oleg Morozov, a member of the foreign relations committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, dismissed the claim of Russian interference as "silliness and paranoia," according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
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"You have to appreciate the inherent silliness in getting life advice from a video game," he said, "and sometimes that means a dolphin in an aviator cap telling you to put fish in you mouth."
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As the show nears its end, and as its protagonist, Finn, comes of age, it seems committed to bringing its plot promises to fruition, at the expense of some of its freeform, child-like silliness.
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One thing that has made the Obama administration so appealing and the one thing that makes the format of "Carpool Karaoke" so winning is the special joy that silliness brings when the backdrop is serious.
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In between the glamorous silliness of the Basel scenes and Morf's bespectacled antics, director Dan Gilroy appears to be making a kind of John Berger-style argument about the way we relate to visual culture.
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Give in to the Blue Men, and you give in to their silliness, seen to its best advantage during the showstopping Twinkies-based banquet scene that relies on the kindness of a participating audience member.
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But at heart, this isn't a musical for boomers; instead, it represents and caters to the kind of media-savvy fan who fully embraces absurdity and silliness in their pop culture (the sillier, the better).
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And though it's just a concept, meaning it will never be available for purchase in its current form, the company has gone quite far with the touches of luxury, sometimes to the point of silliness.
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A remake of Chor Yuen's "Death Duel" (1977), this nostalgic nod to the Chinese magic-and-martial arts genre known as wuxia mixes love story and clan war with equal amounts of silliness and heart.
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"&apos6 Underground&apos proves so uneven in its tone and unrelenting in its volume that it&aposs hard to imagine a hole deep enough in which to bury its silliness," CNN&aposs Brian Lowry wrote.
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I am a sucker for smashing two different tech products together, but the soundbar thing seems to cross a line into silliness, at least when you look at it from the traditional platform war lens.
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But, it just might be silliness that makes Bartholl's work so successful—it keeps what he's doing from being taken seriously enough for anyone to try and stop him, or anyone else, from doing it.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The three fabulous albums reviewed below reflect my deeply held belief that the future of rap lies in silliness, absurdism, functionalism, joy, and a delight in form and sound.
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He has a knack for mixing these sensitive topics with an appealing silliness, as he did in his most recent "Conan" set, which is entirely about animal sexuality and is, by turns, dirty, sweet and clever.
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Return to tracks like DJ Q's "You Wot" and it's easy to see how in the space of a decade we've arrived at an iteration of house music that is more interested in silliness than spirituality.
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"Prison Break," by contrast, followed a model closer to Netflix's "Full House" and "The Gilmore Girls" revivals by reassembling the cast, thrusting them into a new adventure that quickly fell apart dramatically because of its silliness.
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More than a million people have all made the same joke on Facebook — that they will "storm" Area 51 to "see them aliens" — and now the U.S. Air Force is weighing in on the widespread silliness.
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At 47, he has spent the past two decades setting off subversive vibrations along the fine lines between art and life, art and silliness, and art and provocation, melding Conceptual Art smarts and Minimalist literal-mindedness.
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The group's performance style mixes the virtuosic silliness perfected by the duo Igudesman & Joo with the high-octane performance style of the rock-cover specialists Two Cellos, but adds lavish doses of whimsy and sex appeal.
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"I think most people go to work, and maybe there's not as much silliness or playfulness in their day ... and you do that with others, which is a plus for me -- that social component," she said.
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But as is, the movie mostly works-- a fleeting reminder of the simple pleasures of hanging out with family and a talking bear, which, in these frenetic times, is the kind of silliness that's worth savoring.
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It reminded me too much of some of the tender, sweeter parts of my marriage, when we laughed at the show's silliness and thought about how we were the ones who really had our lives together.
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There's little in the way of "get a rubber balloon and leave a trail of breadcrumbs by clicking on the chimney pot… thing", and all of that comparably unintuitive silliness that punctuated so many earlier adventures.
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Mr. Cohen's 2003 interview with the Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, ramping up for yet another fruitless presidential run, is a rare interview in which the subject doesn't embarrass himself with hypocrisy but with mere silliness.
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And though one can hardly call Seuss' work equivalently lurid, it is vulgar in the best, positive sense: bracingly direct and unafraid of silliness, obviously easy to enjoy and always unabashedly fun in the first instance.
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As engineered by the Duke, who no sooner leaves Vienna than he returns in disguise to watch his plan unfold, the second half of the play undercuts with its silliness the seriousness of what came before.
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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).
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Kids will no doubt love the concept's fun and silliness, though adding the name Ribbit to a story that already has a Rabbit and a Robot does make it a real tongue twister for new readers.
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How can I best leverage the recent events in the news to help young men connect their own actions, which seem to them merely harmless silliness but are often sexist, to the broader culture of misogyny?
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The humor of grown women masquerading as preteens while the actual preteens around them play it straight results in the physical silliness of Erskine and Konkle crushing on unattainable boys or facing the wrath of mean girls.
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Those absurdities are present in the silliness of what she, as a consultant, is paid to do: to recommend huge, unpopular cost-cutting measures that executives are unwilling to do themselves, at the expenses of people's livelihoods.
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To that end, while I had trouble connecting to the larger silliness of Kingdom Heart, I found myself drawn to, and regularly moved by, how Sora and others were so straightforward in conveying their hopes and fears.
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The lack of having that anchor there, even though that's all pretense and silliness of not having a person at a desk you just cut to and say, "That was that story, here's another story," unsettles me.
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He loved all my silliness and voice extremes and gave me way too many compliments for things he shouldn't have, until I would have to remind him that he was already on my "A" Christmas card list.
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The "Tamil Film Songs" number, a duet for a bullying fusspot of a male dance teacher (Brian Lawson) and his plaintive but resilient female student (Stacy Martorana) is the evening's comic highlight, a piece of fabulous silliness.
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Arrested Development was the next evolution of television comedy after the late '90s accepted nihilism on networks with shows like Seinfeld, and explored exaggerated silliness on cable sketch shows like Kids in the Hall and Mr. Show.
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Essentially a perfect pop hit, "Beat Your Heart Out" embodies all the silliness that comes with an inflated crush; Dalle switches from speaking in parables and gallows imagery to cliché ("Baby, you make my heart beat faster").
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Otherwise, masculinity will remain what it is now in virtually all gender debates: a mystique, a something-nothing open to an endless palimpsest of interpretations and no substance, reduced in the end to the silliness of stereotypes.
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That isn't to say that Sex Education somehow avoids silliness or gross-out humor, because there are at least two instances of handjob pantomimes and a fellatio-related vomit anecdote in the first couple of episodes alone.
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" In an Instagram post announcing his retirement, Gronkowski thanked the team profusely, writing, "I am so grateful for the opportunity that [team owner Robert Kraft] and Coach Belichick gave to me when drafting my silliness in 2010.
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"Our yoga instructors always incorporate the silliness and unpredictability of the cats themselves," said Courtney Hatt, 31, who ditched a job in high-tech to start up KitTea, which serves teas, Belgian waffles, wraps and other fare.
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To those unaware of the "celebration of silliness," the day ended up being filled with a lot of laughter and secret giggles as the participants acted as normal as possible, travelling around London with no trousers on.
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"His excuse is silliness, and it reflects his assumption that he thinks the voters can't figure out that he's not telling them the truth," Cruz said on "The Kelly File" on Fox News Wednesday night. https://t.
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Even in episodes ostensibly about on-campus shenanigans, Community would offer up some prime silliness, as when one episode took a left turn and abruptly tossed in a dramatic chase scene through a blanket and pillow fort.
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ROSS DOUTHAT: Frank, it's a pleasure to once again be together to talk about the glorious silliness of the Oscars, and a special pleasure to engage in some prognostication that doesn't involve the outcome of either presidential primary.
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That sounds schematic, but Ms. Llewellyn and her director, Dustin Wills, have supplied "O, Earth" with plenty of silliness and surreality, making a sparkling, jagged mishmash of time and place that includes contemporary Greenwich Village and Los Angeles.
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The visuals and score give the film an added depth and gravitas — even as cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom indulges in frequent 1970s-style snap zooms — that help the different threads feel warranted, in spite of the premise's potential silliness.
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Garner's friends have a love for her silliness as former 13 Going on 30 costar and close friend, Judy Greer, showed when she couldn't help but gush about Garner while on the Canadian show The Social last week.
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In the past few months as workplace violation allegations pummel the company and Model 3 production lags behind schedule, Musk keeps tweeting important company information (not unlike a certain White House resident) mixed in with troll-like silliness.
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The Netflix comedy took the frenetic blend of topical jokes, non sequiturs and inspired silliness Mr. Carlock and Ms. Fey developed for the showbiz satire "30 Rock" and transplanted it to the world of plucky New York strivers.
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An attractively produced mix of quick-hit jokes, cartoons, fake advertisements, interviews, first-person essays and deep-dive satire, the magazine is united by an arch tone that provides a nice backdrop for its periodic descent into silliness.
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The Broadway-pedigree cast — which includes Celia Keenan-Bolger, John Ellison Conlee and Jeremy Shamos — demonstrates hair-trigger timing, an affinity for Tex-Mex ballads and an improbable gift for maintaining poker faces amid surreal silliness (1:30).
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It instantly made my Mega Drive-owning pal across the road and I put down what we were playing—usually EA Hockey, or the then-fresh FIFA Soccer—and poke around in its gooey, gross-out, goofball silliness.
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The Muppets have always walked a thin line between sadness and silliness, and it seems likely that Kermit's personality changes on the TV show were part of its attempt to make the Muppets more explicitly targeted to adults.
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They balance technical skill with silliness; their priority is safely performing the steps, but according to Gosa, infusing ballet with comedy is a way of asking audiences to buy into their gender-bending interpretation of centuries-old dances.
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After drawing attention to the silliness of discussing art history in a stand-up show, she gets serious again, saying comics have been more likely to make dismissive jokes about Monica Lewinsky or "throwaway gags" about Mr. Weinstein.
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"Puppet" is a word that can conjure pure silliness and slapstick, but the work of the Czech filmmaker Jiri Trnka (pronounced YIR-zhee TURN-kah), a pioneer in puppet animation, is sophisticated, elegant, intricately beautiful and occasionally dark.
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We indulge the silliness of the fictions in Raad's work because the lattice of paranoia he erects is grounded upon the major blind spots, repressions, and acts of self-censorship endemic to the production and reception of art.
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Having wrapped up their reviewing duties for 2018, our chief film critics, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, look back at a year of rage, silliness and sublimity at the movies and ahead to the 91st Academy Awards.
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A Cure for Wellness clocks in at 146 minutes long, and writer-director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lone Ranger) and his co-writer Justin Haythe cram every one of those minutes with pure, undiluted silliness.
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Debbie (Betty Gilpin) and Tammé (Kia Stevens) share some beautiful moments of vulnerability in Season 2 The deftness of its depiction of harassment in Hollywood only highlights what makes the show so powerful, through both its seriousness and silliness.
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There is, in these modes, a reveling in military pageantry that borders on irony, And alongside it, an increased vein of silliness that's built over the years, zombies and laser beams juxtaposed with M4 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
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"[The discussion in the group has] mainly been about the silliness of the city using precious resources to try to wipe away a penis drawn in snow, and people posting pictures of snow penises of their own," he said.
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Obviously, no one believed such silliness, because everyone likes soup, or tolerates soup, or doesn't come out and say that s/he doesn't like soup, so Lin was asked about it again at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday.
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Aside from the silliness with the ports, other small improvements include faster page turn animations, more settings for font sizes and boldness, a left align option and an inverted color scheme that'll put white text on a black background.
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The program was both a successful vehicle for Ms. Simpson — many of her songs featured on the show, "Shadow" included, made their way to the Billboard Hot 100 — and a brilliant display of the silliness involved in star-making.
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Coal-black gallows humor and a rising body-count punctuate the silliness inherent to the fish-out-of-water story, especially since that "fish" is a man capable of extreme violence and the "water" is LA's vapid acting scene.
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Johannes, raised in a small town in Germany on a diet of propaganda and official Nazi youth culture, has turned Hitler into an emotional support figure, a confidant whose silliness is partly the mirror of the boy's own insecurities.
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There is no word yet about Mr. Wertkin's motivation for undertaking a course of action that now looks almost laughably amateurish, but the silliness may indicate that it was the product of desperation and not a more nefarious plan.
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Part of the annual Fringe Encore Series, which presents favorites from fringe festivals around the world, "Macbeth Muet" is like a cross between a low-budget puppet show and a silent movie, with all the riffing silliness that suggests.
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They were nervous about the silliness of it, and it's one of those things where you're like, "Well that's what makes it fun is that it's so stupid.." NEIL PATRICK HARRIS (Barney): I was a rabid fan of the idea.
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But the mishmash of awkward physical humor, like sex in a compact Toyota, stoner silliness, and a heaving gasp of glorious douchebaggery from Keanu Reeves, with moments of sharp emotional insight, becomes a vehicle to get somewhere a little more wistful.
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Photo courtesy of Salesforce Photo courtesy of Salesforce All the silliness of the naming conventions aside, training is an important component of a system like this, and gamification via badges is part of that, says Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC.
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Interestingly, no one who held Obama in esteem before Trump came up with this silliness, has changed their view of him, and no one who held Trump in esteem before has changed their view of Obama based on the wiretapping business.
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Click here to view original GIFOh my, to be able to live in a time where the silliness of dropping a tank of gas from a 100-feet in the air onto a torch on the ground is totally normal.
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This newspaper, for one, told of the mooing that resonated at bedtime through a converted Walmart superstore in Texas where 133,500 boys, despite being detained, could still make animal noises in a conspiracy of silliness and take refuge in pretending together.
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" (That one's about Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.) To the New Yorker, she is "crowd-pleasing" (always bad), the "poet laureate of Twitter," and "an exemplar of brilliant silliness"; to the New York Times Magazine, she is a "smutty-metaphor queen.
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If you've never been to a Lard Dog performance, you can expect a huge amount of silliness with some under-the-radar seriousness, like the song "Don't Let the Boogah Bug You Out," which seems like good advice for anyone.
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There's nothing here to rival the thing with Bill Murray in "Zombieland" — after all this time, it still feels like a spoiler to say much about it — but the performers commit to the silliness in a spirit of well-compensated affability.
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Comedy wrestling gets a bad rap as being too gimmicky or diluting the melodrama the form is ideally capable of, but Royal Rumbles are long and the willingness to punctuate them with moments of silliness and irony shows strength, not weakness.
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What we effectively have here is 2008's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix—getting to Kingdom Hearts levels of title silliness, there—with a few extra modes added and a comprehensive (over 1,403 images!) but ultimately unnecessary gallery feature.
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It requires a hefty suspension of disbelief that would have been easier to employ had the film been directed with more self-aware silliness Owen Glieberman, Variety: Lawrence makes her nakedness dramatic; she plays Dominika as shamed and proud at the same time.
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Due to the inherent silliness of the vice presidency, a position that is basically powerless 20123 percent of the time but has a small probability of becoming the most powerful position in the entire world, most VPs get saddled with negative reps.
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With filmmaker Drew Goddard (The Martian, Cabin in the Woods) tackling an X-Force movie next, there's going to be an entirely new playground for Deadpool's snarky schtick and silliness — and it's likely going to be there for many years to come.
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He engages the political system with such transparent contempt that he has proven incredibly difficult to pander against, forcing both his opponents and the Republican National Committee to respond to his silliness with a seriousness that ends up reading as even sillier.
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For all the silliness and low-key trolling of lame news reporters, we see an incredibly detail-oriented man—shirtless with a cigarette dangling from his lips—using a razor blade to cut sections of sheet music and work on his arrangements.
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And while Fantastic Beasts' erratic leaps between murderous gravity and childish silliness are distracting, one thing is consistent: the characters here can be silly, broad, naïve, bungling, or just one-dimensional, but a surprising number of them are in some form of pain.
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Sean Kelly "Equestrian Portrait of Philip III" (2016), the most spectacular of several large paintings by Kehinde Wiley in the fair, depicts a young man, dandified to the point of silliness, on a rearing horse surrounded by birds and flowering and fruiting trees.
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Check-check. What it all works to create is definitely a scary sequence of events, but beneath it all there's an unintentional air of silliness, a lack of cohesion, and a sense that there are one too many ingredients in this recipe.
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So, while us Brits were eschewing Spam as undesirable processed ham, fit only for Monty Python sketches sending up the silliness of the word itself, on the coast of the South China Sea, people were thrilled to taste the flavours of the West.
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I'm a Natasha Rothwell fangirl, and while she is a hugely successful creator and writer with a strong political voice in Hollywood, she also plays Kelli on HBO's "Insecure," the one who makes me laugh out loud with her buoyant silliness and generosity.
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In an Instagram post, Gronkowski, 29, widely considered one of the most talented tight ends to ever play, thanked the team and its fans for drafting his "silliness" back in 2010 and acknowledged the uncertainty of what will come next for him.
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The story also receives a boost of mischievous whimsy from the Hercules villain Hades, played with a starched mop of hair and punk-rock eyeliner by Cheyenne Jackson, rekindling some (but not enough) of the silliness Kristin Chenoweth brought to the first movie.
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A batty composer, a fusty French chateau, missing children — and that old faithful, the Antichrist — add up to a whole lot of silliness in "The Sonata," a leaden Gothic ghost story whose high-gloss imagery fails to disguise its low-energy plot.
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Handy describes the author's books as a blend of "imagination, humor, rhyme, rigor, silliness, aggression and chaos theory," which is as efficient and accurate a blurb as I've ever read, and he finds fanciful ways to show the true nature of Geisel's genius.
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For Musk, this is all worth it, despite the silliness and at the expense of Tesla&aposs cool, because it makes his pickup that doesn&apost really exist yet a sort of phantom competitor for the most successful pickup in human history.
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But behind that silliness, there was indeed a legitimately serious issue here: hints of the still-deep divisions in Iran, just beneath the surface, between so-called moderate versus hard-line factions jostling to pull the country in two very different directions.
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It's not the most original strategy, but at least The OC embraces the plot's inherent silliness, turning all of its characters into nightmare versions of themselves and pairing up various odd couples to terrifying results (Sandy Cohen and Julie Cooper together — yikes!).
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There are several moments where the movie seems to acknowledge that Diana, warrior princess, coming to man's world is a patently silly concept, but the movie betrays so much affection for her and the people around her that the silliness brings laughs and real smiles.
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The floodgates to silliness opened when people figured out that the online interface allows them to reach out and ask for things they might not have the temerity to ask for in person, said Amir Pasic, dean of Indiana University's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
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In his new turn as Mr. Trump's chief tormentor — Mr. Rubio has taunted the real estate mogul, calling him a wimp and saying his business dealings are as fake as his tan — Mr. Rubio has struggled to find the right balance between seriousness and silliness.
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During E3, Dead or Alive game director Yohei Shimbori told Eurogamer that Dead or Alive 6 would aim to tone down the sexualisation of its female characters, "so everyone can play without being embarrassed," and to "avoid the silliness" while focusing on the fighting.
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Bellator has a roster of legitimately talented fighters at most weights, but it is putting most of its focus—under Scott Coker, who became enamored with this silliness when Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar was surprisingly successful—into these kind of 'masters division' fights.
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And, miracle of miracles, eventually the audience at my show thawed out; gradually, more and more of them seemed to open their hearts to the silliness and sincerity of this show, its complete lack of irony and pretense, its sheer eagerness to make you laugh.
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First, the "big," capable versions of GPT-2 — the ones that actually represent state-of-the-art performance — haven't been released to the public yet, so all the poetry and silliness generated thus far was created with much weaker AI systems released for public sampling.
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" Ben Brantley, reviewing the Vineyard staging for The Times, wrote, "The production has its moments of irresistible, go-for-broke absurdity in which the point is that nothing onstage can match the conjunctions of sorrow and silliness that real life dishes out these days.
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It's precisely through its unwavering commitment to silliness, though, that Wattam makes the salient case for why play and video games matter so much — and it does so better than the Very Serious Games you'll find on a Best Video Games of the Decade list.
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EST: Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 2628:28500 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE and Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: House poised for historic vote to impeach Trump | Fifth official leaves Pentagon in a week | Otto Warmbier's parents praise North Korea sanctions bill Pompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment Fourth Pentagon official announces resignation within week MORE hold a joint press conference.
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There are a couple of scenes involving the Drago family saga that made me howl, and their silliness felt half-intentional on the part of Creed II's filmmakers, like they were daring the audience to take the scenes seriously because they knew how ridiculous it was.
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The two men have sparred over substance, silliness and everything in between: public housing and private workout routines, homelessness and topless women in Times Square, taxing millionaires and euthanizing a deer, a Legionnaires' disease outbreak and state troop deployments, schools, snowstorms and the subways — even naps.
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But in the finale of the Quartet No. 5, between the million-notes-a-minute breathlessness of the Allegro and the white blur of the final Presto, Bartok shines the spotlight on the second violin with an innocent tune that makes for a moment of pure silliness.
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It's the very epitome of a solid six out of ten: you'll play it, enjoy the silliness inherent in its phantoms and freaky dolls, and likewise the contrastingly brutal backstory to the protagonist's current state of mind and body, and then never play it a second time.
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But it's a kind of silliness with real and potentially dire consequences, as the candidates, one by one, promised militarism and an official policy of belligerence, speaking to a world that remembers the last time America tried that and earnestly fears the consequences should it happen again.
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Part of me wanted to be offended at the over-the-top interpretations of "female" behavior, but I was defenseless against the sheer silliness of it all, and the way that it slyly highlighted how our culture coaxes us to treat finding love as a competition.
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The silliness of this statement becomes obvious when one considers that wild horses don't exist on more than 85 percent of BLM lands, and where they do occur, they have to share the range with domestic livestock which typically have an even bigger impact on the land.
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"Toni Erdmann," her third feature, may look like farce — and it does achieve heights of pure, giddy silliness of a kind rarely seen on the big screen these days — but it is driven by a savage satirical energy, a thoroughgoing critique of the way things are.
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It's also part of an emerging hip-hop counternarrative — as opposed to the sensual gloom of Drake, or the narcotic sighs of Future — centered on enthusiasm and occasional silliness, approaches artists like Tyler, Chance the Rapper, Lil Yachty, Kyle and D.R.A.M. have been applying with success.
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His good-natured silliness became the snarl of "We're just joking!" above an anti-Semitic murder fantasy, part of the winking but painfully serious ideology that helped put a genuine nihilist — a man who really, truly seems beyond caring about anything but his own name — in the White House.
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Gone was the slapstick silliness of most children's cartoons, in were sprawling sagas full of drama, character development, and overblown fight scenes in which planets were destroyed by colorful heroes; and villains were as dedicated to hurting each other as they were to excruciatingly long pre-fight dialogue.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche founded Whoop Dee Doo in Kansas City, Missouri back in 2006, the vibe was of a cable-access kids' variety show: a blend of unabashed revelry in oddness, transcendent silliness, and earnest dedication to community-building.
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The silliness began when Mr. Trump announced that he didn't want to be questioned again by Megyn Kelly, the Fox News anchor who had the shocking gall to ask him in the first G.O.P. debate to respond to people who considered his sexist comments about women to be sexist.
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A funny, sexy, and cartoonishly over-the-top romp concerning a sexually fluid college student navigating his own horniness, murderous cults, and the end of the world, Kaboom is an 87-minute blast that blends silliness and real matters of the human heart like a kid mixing finger paint.
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And the show's silliness might go down easier, and might even be moving, if the story were framed as the fantasy of an actor with an overactive imagination and no role to channel it into; instead we are essentially expected to take its outlandish events at face value.
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You can play their latest iterations straight, with no power-ups or special "chance shots;" or layer on the delightful silliness, with bizarre courts ranging from ice to sand to a sort of mushroom-patterned trampoline thing, and modes where the ball shrinks over the course of a rally.
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It's tongue-in-cheek but enjoyable in its silliness, featuring clips of Egedy driving through the night (presumably in a stolen car) like a science fiction protagonist, performing for the camera in a junkyard, and setting up shop in motor garage that looks akin to a net art exhibition.
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The detail is loving, and the detail makes you love them; for a mobile game in which the characters themselves are far more the star than the JRPG plotline that contextualize them, the animation is crucial for selling who the characters are, in their nobility, sexiness, or silliness.
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But connoisseurs of gothic silliness can appreciate it as a gender-switched homage to "The Silence of the Lambs," with Carpenter as a female Hannibal Lecter and Morris Chestnut as the F.B.I. agent assigned to oversee her (even though his fiancée died as a result of her treason).
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The show "allowed Dave to be his entire self, to express his intellect, his anger, his morality, his silliness, his hypocrisy, his sadness, his blazing talent," said Neal Brennan, a comedian who was a co-creator of the show and who gave a speech Sunday that brought Mr. Chappelle to tears.
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The former mayor's budding campaign is a tantrum against the populist politics of Warren and Sanders, a gift to the high-priced consultants who will happily collect paychecks from his campaign, and a bit of cosplaying silliness—Bloomberg wants to pretend to be a contender, speeches and ads and all.
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Hogan's wife (Isla Fisher) is also every bit as obsessed with the game as her husband, and along with Leslie Bibb, as Jerry's soon-to-be bride; and Rashida Jones, as a former high-school crush, let women join in the silliness of what's otherwise a men-will-be-boys affair.
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As if trying to one-up the flabbergasting silliness of the trailer for Oliver Stone's forthcoming biopic about him—in which the human clown Joseph Gordon-Levitt does his best to sound like a King of the Hill character—famed whistler-blower Edward Snowden has reinvented himself: as an electronic artist.
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The pleasures afforded by this breakneck show — directed by Jesse Berger and featuring a virtuosic cast led by a path-clearing cyclone of silliness called Michael Urie — are as old as the days when cave dwellers discovered that human stupidity was really kind of funny, as well as potentially tragic.
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There was no time for brashness, or silliness — my dad certainly didn't see the point 35 years ago when he moved to San Diego alone to go to school, nor does he see it now, waking up at 6am six days a week to open up the family print shop.
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The sugar rush of the familiar gets thrown into relief as Peep leans into the lyrical tropes of hip-hop, and right around the time he raps, "I saw the plug at the club, came back with a brick," you might find yourself singing along in spite of the arch silliness at hand.
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But even if it weren't, I would be writing this review with my heart on my sleeve to tell you all to go see it, because it's one of those musicals that earnestly strives to be exactly what it is: a good-hearted, shamelessly self-indulgent trope factory built on fun and silliness.
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McCaskill confirmed a report from The Washington Free Beacon that she used the plane for part of her tour while dismissing the story as "election-year silliness" in statements to CNN and Politico, adding that she used the aircraft for adding stops to the tour and saying that it was never kept a secret.
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Those episodes, full of storylines ranging from Samantha babysitting a child with a Sharper Image vibrator to Miranda getting adult braces, hit the sweet spot of silliness, comedy, and wit that's a perfect steam valve release for terrible days, the kind of television to put on while chopping vegetables for dinner or folding laundry.
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The development of an unlikely bond between cowboy pull-toy Woody and intergalactic superhero Buzz Lightyear is pure silliness on its face, but Toy Story comes to life just as swiftly as its toys thanks to the wit of a zippy, heartfelt script (the work of several different writers, including Finding Nemo's Andrew Stanton and Buffy's Joss Whedon).
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It's been a perfect show since it premiered in 2014 and introduced its unique blend of trenchant Hollywood satire, sublime cartoon silliness, and profound existential drama, all set in a world in which an anthropomorphized horse-man named BoJack (Will Arnett) could be a faded '90s sitcom star plagued with severe insecurity and enormous self-importance.
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But the bigger picture might be that Captain Marvel and Black Panther could give Marvel the incentive to focus not on just black superheroes from Wakanda or female superhero space captains, but on heroes — She-Hulk's criminal defense lawyer by day, or the campy silliness of Namor, Prince of Atlantis — who wouldn't otherwise have their stories told.
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But I saw him do this on TV and later, as I did television as a singing-songwriting pianist, I began to assume he chose that song for the same reason that I've often gravitated towards silliness on TV. It feels like nuance evaporates over TV. It doesn't feel like it will be absorbed or remembered.
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It's a knowingly fan-servicing affair, from its opening stage riffing on a cartoon episode to its Kremzeek collectibles hidden around the maze-like levels; but that Platinum quality can't be denied, which keeps it entertaining for those less into the robots themselves, and the storyline silliness that permeates its campaign represents a warm rush of comforting nostalgia.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE has not visited China for over a year.
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What made WWDITS a favorite with online audiences wasn't the overall conceit, or the numerous parodies of vampire films, elements which frequently failed to impress critics, so much as the execution: its frequent wordplay, sight gags, and overall silliness — as well as its obvious love and respect for the vampire films it was homaging (yes, even Twilight).
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In the end, what most makes Atomic Blonde easier to take than a lot of movies beloved by the college film bros of the world (and I absolutely count my younger self among their number) is that it has just enough silliness to let you know it understands that it's a little over-the-top and hard to take.
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Bringing this back to video games, while I loved the fan service the Lego Dimensions pack provides—it's basically the first movie, in virtual block form, with more physical humor, and a whole bunch of lines from the film shifted about in the narrative to fit said scenes of silliness—it's unlikely to last all that long in the memory.
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The two SNL alums appeared in the show's cold open Saturday evening that also added Leslie Jones as Oprah Winfrey in a skit that captured some of the silliness of the current moment — a gossipy, factually questionable book taking down a figure who was often cast as a Republican kingmaker, and a debate about whether Oprah should run for president.
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Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) told reporters on Wednesday that negotiations had reached a "point of total silliness" focusing on "three words" in the nearly 140-page bill.
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I felt very vulnerable and I wasn't very confident, and I think it's something for me personally that's super important—if you're going to get to a place where you are exposed to a lot of people, that you're being honest and authentic and you're not just leaving clubs looking hammered or talking trash about people in the press and you know, just indulging in that silliness that's just sleazy ultimately.
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On Friday, Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: House poised for historic vote to impeach Trump | Fifth official leaves Pentagon in a week | Otto Warmbier's parents praise North Korea sanctions bill Pompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment Fourth Pentagon official announces resignation within week MORE predicted the United States would soon be "tested" on whether it can bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.
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Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE on Saturday launched a personal Twitter account amid speculation that he will ultimately run for Senate in his home state of Kansas.
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But as I looked from the wedding-white princess, with her blank expression and tiny earrings, to the ceramic hippo, and from the yawning hippo to the grimacing, listing baby, and as I struggled to reconcile the chaotic bouquet of sadness, silliness, yearning, dislocation and theatrically exaggerated self-consciousness that Ms. Anderson's work evoked in me, I finally recognized the performance she was going for: It was a long, slow wink, and I was doing it.
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Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: House poised for historic vote to impeach Trump | Fifth official leaves Pentagon in a week | Otto Warmbier's parents praise North Korea sanctions bill Pompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment Fourth Pentagon official announces resignation within week MORE earlier this week downplayed the departures, telling reporters that there is a "rhythm" to people leaving and taking positions and said there was already a replacement for Stewart.
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Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: House poised for historic vote to impeach Trump | Fifth official leaves Pentagon in a week | Otto Warmbier's parents praise North Korea sanctions bill Pompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment Fourth Pentagon official announces resignation within week MORE earlier this week downplayed the departures, telling reporters that there is a "rhythm" to people leaving and taking positions and said there was already a replacement for Stewart.
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J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote to Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE on Tuesday raising concerns about Taylor's reported exit and suggesting he was "unceremoniously recalling" Taylor from Ukraine.
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Uninterested in lowering or raising the bar, in finding a mechanical alternative to the paint brush or in making a signature commodity (remember that guy who got famous by painting badly on broken dishes?) – all conventional macho choices – Eisenman is fascinated by the challenge of making paintings and drawings about whatever crosses her mind, tickles her fancy, bugs her, challenges her, worries her, depresses her, brings her joy, or tests her capacity for downright silliness, always – it should be noted – with an edge.
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An internal GOP poll from the party's Senate campaign arm shows former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach with a commanding lead over the Republican primary field unless Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 28500:6900 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE were to enter the fray.
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"The world should know that despite all the noise, the chaos, the media asking questions that are completely unrelated to the reason that we're here today, that the leaders of our two nations are working diligently to protect the American people, to develop a relationship that's important strategically for the coming decades between the United States and India," Pompeo said alongside Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: House poised for historic vote to impeach Trump | Fifth official leaves Pentagon in a week | Otto Warmbier's parents praise North Korea sanctions bill Pompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment Fourth Pentagon official announces resignation within week MORE at the State Department.
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They want to hear from acting White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneySchumer, Pelosi to meet as Democrats debate tactics Senate GOP blasts impeachment: 'The mob took over the House' Pelosi noncommittal on delivering impeachment articles to Senate MORE, former national security adviser John BoltonJohn BoltonSchumer, Pelosi to meet as Democrats debate tactics Senate GOP blasts impeachment: 'The mob took over the House' Pelosi noncommittal on delivering impeachment articles to Senate MORE, Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 28503:22019 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE and possibly acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought.
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Those documents showed repeated contacts between Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoPompeo: State Department won't be distracted by 'noise' and 'silliness' of impeachment The Hill's 12:30 Report — Presented by UANI — Dramatic day as House heads toward impeachment vote US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January MORE and President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE's personal attorney Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiGraham warns Giuliani: 'I hope you know what you're talking about' US diplomat William Taylor to leave Ukraine post at the beginning of January Giuliani: Trump remains 'very supportive' of my efforts to dig up dirt in Ukraine MORE.
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