It's why many fans of National League baseball argue against the designated hitter despite the fact it's self-evidently silly to force pitchers to hit.
For a conversation so self-evidently silly, last weekend's food-fight between The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney on CNN's Reliable Source sure has excited quite a few people.
The "Gravity" star was evidently feeling silly at the USC Shoah Foundation gala at New York's American Museum of Natural History Thursday, and snuck up behind Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Seinfeld while the trio unknowingly posed for a picture.
Of course, nearly 20 years later the technology referenced is outdated, so the concept of a bunch of high-school students making lasting social change is evidently a little silly.
It was (and is) cheesy, hokey, goofy, silly and evidently effective.
"If someone is very evidently a dedicated Nazi that's one thing, but the odd silly remark or youthful excess is something else.
Despite a victory and a performance that proved, as the Guardian's match report put it, that "Chelsea were evidently superior to Everton", Avram Grant's post-match performance was both silly and sullen.
The cheerful, unpretentious pleasure Faiers evidently took in his work is affecting, but there's something ultimately silly about the idea of the sophisticated urbanite trying to get in touch with his inner shaman.
There is a very silly cameo by the cult Japanese director Takashi Miike, whose torture-classic Audition is evidently admired by Roth.
And in being tipped this sly wink, we are evidently given to understand that this hipper new version of Annie is not the same old silly schmaltz.
Perhaps it's silly to compare Derbyshire to Guillen — one wrote an essay expressing some controversial but evidently deeply felt opinions, while the other mouthed off in an interview, and seemed to regret it.
