Sentence examples similar to it appears facetious from inspiring English sources

"Senator, on pain of appearing facetious, I must relate to you a rather well-known story regarding the noted musician, Louis Armstrong, who was once asked to explain jazz," Robinson wrote.

This is less ­facetious than it appears.

Not so, it appears.

Or so it appears.

It appeared to work.

(It appeared in 1971).

A few years ago there appeared a facetious book of academic essays about Alan Smithee – the catch-all DGA pseudonym under which movies are released if their real directors have removed their names in shame or horror – as if the alias were a directorial signature as recognisable as Hitchcock's or John Ford's.

It just appeared.

It is facetious and funny.

All of it is facetious, and none of it explains anything.

Ladle on gags, visual fantasies, burlesque, gay jokes, dreams, flashbacks, abrupt shifts in tone, and make it all facetious.