Sentence examples for a great silly from inspiring English sources
In "A Great Silly Grin" (Public Affairs; $27.50), a history of nineteen-sixties British satire, Humphrey Carpenter relates a routine done at the comedy club the Establishment early in the decade.
Indeed, as Humphrey Carpenter reveals in his uneven book "A Great, Silly Grin: The British Satire Boom of the 1960s," had it not been for the National Service, which propelled Bennett to Cambridge and a cold war career as a Russian translator (along with the author and playwright Michael Frayn), he would probably have become an Anglo-Catholic vicar of Tory sensibility.
For a great silly picture, stand next to a Beefeater in London and try to make the Beefeater laugh.
This otherwise trivial pronouncement only has the makings of a great silly-season story because of who it was aimed at: another broadcasting behemoth, Sir Melvyn Bragg.
Despite his versatility as a man of letters, Stephen Spender never lacked for hostile critics, and even his friends could not resist twitting him: Cyril Connolly once gibed that there were two Stephen Spenders — one "an inspired simpleton, a great big silly goose, a holy Russian idiot," the other a clever operator who was "shrewd, ambitious, aggressive and ruthless".
The movie is sheer hurtling mechanism — the entire world in motion — and it's great silly fun.
SpongeBob rocks back and forth, water sprays from the pores in his body, and his arms and legs shake all around to great silly effect.
"In the mid-90s I was the age when I should have been learning how to be vulnerable, how to handle a broken heart, how to deal with rejection and how to deal with all the other great silly things about young love which help pave the way to the more substantial adult version," she wrote.
Though the movie can be great silly fun, be prepared for everything to lean toward the "too too".
However, it makes for great silly putty.
Tom Ruane, an IBM engineer who doubles as Retrosheet's primary data whiz, has already dug through the first five years of numbers and generated a great list of silly but delightful finds.
