Sentence examples for ludicrous characters from inspiring English sources

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#StarWarsPremiere pic.twitter.com/k6ybfeiWzC Everyone seems to agree with me: Star Wars is over-hyped, incomprehensible gibberish featuring ludicrous characters & even dumber plots.

Farce is defined by our dictionaries as a light drama with ludicrous characters and an improbable plot -- a mocking of absurdity.

And you had all these other ludicrous characters, like Turkmenbashi, who was the President and dictator of Turkmenistan, who renamed, I think, the day Thursday and the word for "bread" after his mother.

"I mean, what do people want?" says Simon. "Just a load of ludicrous characters walking in and out of rooms, doing something funny?" On cue, a man appears, carrying a karaoke machine, honking through a Michael Jackson ballad.

Set around the utterly dysfunctional Bluth family and their father's dodgy dealings, the show covered some fairly taboo topics - incest and Oedipal complexes were running themes - and included comedy ranging from catchphrases and wordplay to set pieces and brilliantly ludicrous characters.

After school he went up to Oxford to read history at Hertford College, where his uncle, the college principal, had the distinction of having sent down Evelyn Waugh - thus earning a place in Waugh's first five novels as a series of minor but ludicrous characters.

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And while Mr Blair chills out on holiday, this ludicrous character is left in charge of the country.All of which adds to the perkiness of the Tories.

In "The Rhetoric of Economics," McCloskey mocked bourgeois man as a ludicrous character, "at once master and servant, inclined therefore to hypocrisy and doubletalk, 'umble and yet pompous".

It also, if inadvertently, exposed the somewhat ludicrous character of any claim by "His Britanic Majesty," or any European power, for that matter, to control such an expansive frontier that simply swallowed up and spit out European presumptions of civilization.

I hope that my photographs reflect on the boom and bust the city has experienced over the last century, and that they'll give you an honest view of the overlooked culture that gives Reno its ludicrous character.

Rife with clunky dialogue, ridiculous characters and ludicrous plot twists.

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