Sentence examples for in the laughable from inspiring English sources

In recent years Mr. Cage's lack of discrimination (or taste) has threatened to overshadow the sweep of his career, which is understandable if you've seen him in the laughable remake of "The Wicker Man" (2006), about a cop battling honey-growing female pagans, including while wearing a bear costume.

Those fears, looking back after Obama's first month, are now in the laughable category.

This is seen clearly in the laughable analyses published daily in major newspapers, which proudly feature "experts" who explain ex post facto why the market moved in a particular direction.

During his senatorial run in Illinois, he faced the laughable Alan Keyes and to date, Hillary Clinton has absorbed the body blows from the right and talk radio as the agent of the liberal agenda.

But when I went to interview him in 2000, I hoped the laughable fact that he was barely five feet tall and sang with a woman's voice yet had still managed to sell more than 47 million records in his career would not be lost on him.

To be sure, BBIs represent a slight improvement over hypothetical queries such as "Where do you see yourself in five years?" or the laughable, "What's your biggest weakness?" Anyone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject, however, knows that it's easy to game BBIs.

Mary Frances Berry, the chairwoman of the commission, called Ms. Harris's description of her role in the election "laughable".

"Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour had been eager to champion [Miley] as a new fashion icon," the Mail writes in the most laughable sentence we've seen all week.

I should be given apology!" Adviser Kellyanne Conway — who previously called the idea of Russian interference in the election "laughable and ridiculous" — also argued Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that it was Obama's fault for not stopping it.

The artist Henry de Groux threatened to remove his own work from the 1890 exhibition if he found it in the same room as "the laughable pot of sunflowers by Mr Vincent".

PowerPoint is strangely adept at disguising the fragile foundations of a proposal, the emptiness of a business plan; usually, the audience is respectfully still (only venture capitalists dare to dictate the pace of someone else's slide show), and, with the visual distraction of a dancing pie chart, a speaker can quickly move past the laughable flaw in his argument.