Sentence examples for a slightly silly from inspiring English sources

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I think fantasy is a slightly silly term.

JACKSON -- I always think of Tom Bombadil as a slightly silly character who doesn't actually contribute too much to the story.

Both teams, naturally, have a slightly silly animated sequence that plays to dramatic music on the big screen before the players start getting named.

Here's a slightly silly example (which I just made up!) showing how you can easily sacrifice the focus of a story for rhyme: Here's a dungeon, oh so scary.

Clad in copper-toned mosaics, and with a heated floor, the bathroom was stocked with Intelligent Nutrients organic body products, and a slightly silly bar of Green Natura Waste Reducing Exfoliating Body Cleanser soap, which had a hole in the middle to avoid the problem of any leftover bits that might otherwise go to waste.

In other words, if he were not so good, it wouldn't matter that Glow seems so glib and gauchely assembled; instead, I'd be reviewing a slightly silly caper by a guy who may or may not go on to have a career writing more of the same.

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While filling out all the forms involved, I fell in love with a slightly silly-looking papier-m??hicken that must have been a window display in its former life.

Lake describes Quantum Break as "Remedy's summer blockbuster movie" and that's definitely what it feels like – a big, slightly silly, sci-fi popcorn flick, with lovely visuals and a neat line in meta-humour (there's a superb Alan Wake easter egg in one of the university lecture theatres).

All this is (a) harmless, (b) slightly silly, (c) not seriously frightening and, (d) sometimes boring.

First, here's a handy, if slightly silly song video to help remind you of where to go.

Gates worked the crowd in a Manhattan Toys RR" Us, looking slightly silly in an uncharacteristically hip black jacket.

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