Sentence examples for feeling ridiculous from inspiring English sources

At Google, for example, new employees have a ritual now made famous by the Vince Vaughn/ Owen Wilson film The Internship­ – they wear beanie hats in the Google logo colors with propellers on top that say "Noogler". Far from feeling ridiculous, Google employees feel that the ritual of the Noogler hat marks them as part of an exclusive group.

She lowered her hands, feeling ridiculous.

"It was more than one!" I blurted, feeling ridiculous.

"I couldn't describe my work without feeling ridiculous," she says, with characteristic modesty.

"You can have a crazy idea without feeling ridiculous," she said.

It was fun at first, but I soon began to — is there a word for feeling ridiculous on someone else's behalf?

Think about what you are feeling, and dissect the feeling until it starts to feel ridiculous.

Mr. Onken says he understands his students' feelings — that they look ridiculous compared to the nouveau riche Kazakhs or their friends who are pursuing more standard and lucrative career paths.

It may feel ridiculous, but the more clear you are about your mutual expectations the less room there will be for hard feelings.

— which you can't really do alone without feeling completely ridiculous.

His editor's letter in Bon Appetit's July 2000 issue, for example, details Mr. Garry's park-bench dinner with an Elvis impersonator, at which the impersonator ate a meal of fragrant, soulful barbecued pork and Mr. Garry, "feeling fairly ridiculous," ate a hummus sandwich.