Sentence examples for appears silly from inspiring English sources

If so, small wonder Time appears silly to them".

The online Macmillan dictionary even helpfully provides an example for its definition ("trying to be friendly and pleasant in a way that appears silly and not sincere"), with: "She spoke in a simpering tone".

Gill looks like an art deco stylist, Gaudier-Brzeska appears silly, and next to the stupendous Assyrian reliefs he revered, Sargeant Jagger's first world war frieze looks about as sophisticated as sculpted icing.

Until Rouhani's election, last June, it appeared silly to think of the United States and Iran reaching any sort of rapprochement.

And Frederick Douglass said that "the President of the United States seems to possess an ever increasing passion for making himself appear silly and ridiculous, if nothing worse".

"The stories appear silly but can have reasons," said Dr. Thomas A. Platts-Mills, head of the Asthma and Allergic Disease Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Rugby union, at just the moment it is trying to pose as a forward-looking sport about to burst back on to the Olympic stage, has already been made to appear silly.

Under the bright light of hindsight, some of the ordinances appear silly, while others can more soberly be seen as tools of discrimination or a means of thwarting civil rights.

And in September 1862, when writing about the president's August 1862 meeting with black clergyman from Chicago, during which Lincoln had aggressively promoted colonization, Douglass wrote that the president "seems to have an ever increasing passion for making himself appear silly and ridiculous".

Now, any man or woman who has experienced sexual tantric practice knows it is irrefutably powerful (guilty and charged) — but it's a tough sell to everyone else, because even the best literary attempts to teach it appear silly or simply absurd.

The changes will be so dramatic that the current discussions of a bubble will appear silly.