In court, the industry's lawyers, from the high-powered corporate firm Latham & Watkins, presented their argument in high dudgeon, calling the rules "ludicrous" and dreamed up by "scientists in the room, working with the mayor, creating a regulation here that is going to cost people a ton of money".
…" Influenced by the suspenseful "Blackwood's tales" of the day, right down to a ludicrous only-a-dream ending, it's remarkably similar to the mad, insistent narrators of Edgar's work.
While slumbering in the basement of the family's eatery, Alex dreams a ludicrous scenario in which Stevens would star as a model and undercover cop who blasts away his foes at a fashion show, leaving innocent models in a sea of badly concealed blood-bags erupting everywhere.
Yes, even when those dreams seem ludicrous, like starting aerial circus at 42! 5. Momentum Muscling through an activity is possible, but you will only last for so long.
Sharks are such feared carnivores that there is an entire movie genre dedicated to dreaming up ludicrous ways for them to tear apart unsuspecting human populations.
The neatness of that statement, of course, is that both dreams are equally ludicrous.
("Perception problem," the book points out, is "Washington-speak for 'reality.' ") It also helps that Bird works for a company — called Groepping-Sprunt, thanks to Mr. Buckley's rare gift for dreaming up credibly ludicrous names — that could better its fortunes by secretly stirring up trouble.
I brought this home to my discerning family of bearded nerds back in 2011, along with a copy of Marvel Vs Capcom 3. We agreed that All-Stars is a ludicrous, physics-breaking Technicolor fever-dream, but Marvel vs Capcom 3 was just silly.
He observes, "That was a ludicrous fantasy for a law-abiding blackjack professional in the age of Al Qaeda — my dreams were September 10 dreams".
Her dreams of floral suzerainty are smashed by deer; my dreams of rink supremacy are smashed by the geographically ludicrous Tampa Bay Lightning, who won the Stanley Cup this year.
