Sentence examples for becomes ludicrous from inspiring English sources

The film becomes ludicrous as well as scary.

The charge that this regulation could shut down access to health care becomes ludicrous when one realizes these are essentially the laws we have been operating under for 35 years.

These big companies' tax rate will fall from 28% to 24% over the next four years – a move that seems generous, but quickly becomes ludicrous when it is appreciated that the effective tax rate of the largest companies in the UK is now 21%.

Mr. Gay's drama, normally so earthbound you can smell the red clay of the soil his characters walk on, becomes ludicrous when Coble, who can't let go of the fact that he was hoodwinked, sues to have E. F. declared mentally incompetent and himself appointed his guardian, which drives the normally rascally and self-assured E. F. to panic.

We entered at 69th and Central Park West...and put on our skis near the bust of Mazzini, who was wearing a white bib and skullcap of snow.... Attaching skis, like sprouting wings, means a sudden anatomical specialization: all at once, walking becomes ludicrous and unbearable...

"That has become ludicrous.

But animal archetypes are not arbitrary; fables can become ludicrous if they mismatch temperament and creature.

I stuck with them even when the price became ludicrous – a week before, at a kiosk in central London, I had barely got change from a tenner.

David Cameron now prime minister, then leader of the opposition denounced a "broken society", arguing that "we have seen a decades-long erosion of responsibility, of social virtue, of self-discipline, respect for others, deferring gratification instead of instant gratification".Mr Cameron's claim, hyperbolic then, has since become ludicrous.

But somehow the tone of this week's episode struck just about the right note (I'm being generous because we all have to get through at least another four hours of this before the series is out), even if, as many have noted in posts on this blog, the pacing of this series has become ludicrous: there are barely three lines in any scene.

But by the third season the show -- always bad -- became ludicrous as hints of Mr. Roarke's magical powers and godlike abilities became increasingly common and the fantasies left reality (I wanna be a cowboy!) to absurd heights.