Sentence examples for is almost risible from inspiring English sources

The poetic metaphor of the floating corpse is not fully exploited, and the white woman's chirpiness ("Our little camp began to blossom... Co-operation, community and creativity flowered") is almost risible.

Blaming the press is so standard as to be almost risible.

It's almost enough to make you forget its risible characters and its bone-headed grasp of geopolitics.

But there's still a huge problem: simply put, it's that there is no viable Iraqi government in Baghdad, nor is there likely to be one for years; the army is still weak, and the police almost risible in their flakiness - it would be flattering their capability to call them militias in uniform.

From this point, all warfare was destined to be overshadowed by nuclear weapons, devices so powerful as to turn even the mightiest conventional forces into negligible, almost risible, quantities.

There is something risible about the painting, but, however unintentionally, it also represents Nixon in all his complexity.

While most of academia is straightforwardly risible, this is one area of scholarly endeavour that's resolutely unfunny.

People who think the apology is risible already think he is risible – they won't vote for him anyway.

A flea is utterly risible on account of its size, and, being small, it is therefore a thing of almost no consequence.

Ranting is good fun, but Johnson doesn't agree that gender-neutrality is a risible waste of time.

The idea that some estates can be demolished and others rebuilt out of such a miserly sum is simply risible.