Sentence examples for considered silly from inspiring English sources

Big smiles were considered silly, childish, or downright wicked.

Swift's satirical dialogue is jam-packed with hoary clichés, along with words that he considered silly and faddish.

It took two thousand years for universal suffrage to become even thinkable; today, anyone who challenged it would be considered silly or insane.

Charles Berdo also took a dim view of children playing organized sports, activities he considered silly and a waste of time.

Readers who love all kinds of fiction – including the most fantastic of fantasies – have to shut up about their passions for fear of being considered silly.

(By way of comparison, when Japan's NTT was floated in the late 1990s, its price-to-earnings or p/e ratio, later considered silly, was 70; some tech companies still have no "e").After the most recent bloodbath, the latest trend in investment management is to buy distressed assets on the cheap, preferably at below their book value.

Its subject is Napoleon, the film Kubrick researched for two years after 2001: A Space Odyssey but had to abandon in 1970 when the Hollywood studios withdrew in view of the immense budget and the appearance of Bondarchuk's Waterloo, which Kubrick considered "a silly film".

The scope of the outrage made me wonder whether What Cannot Be Explained By Newtonian Physics is not considered only silly but also threatening to our world-view based on, well, Newtonian physics.

Sailors (along with women, heirs and farmers, according to the Yale law professor Arthur Leff) were once considered "presumptive sillies" by the law -- sometimes allowed to escape from onerous financial contracts that fully competent adults would be forced to complete.

Both are extremes which I consider rather silly".

"I can't give an answer to a question I consider a silly question," Mr. Yerodia said, after denying that his government had refused United Nations officials access to certain areas.