Sentence examples for ludicrous exercises from inspiring English sources

Many people told me that they felt that if they did not attend and participate, they would attract suspicion, and so people kept going through these ludicrous exercises — for two weeks, four times a year.

All you have to do is notice the plethora of old people not made happy by the great extension already achieved: people who, with ascetic diet, ludicrous exercises and nonstop rounds of doctor visits do anything to keep alive, often quite without the happiness they think more time will bring.

For that reason, we will be abstaining from this ludicrous exercise, and getting on with the real job instead.

Comparing the U.S. resources being spent in Afghanistan (which he called "a ludicrous exercise") with the U.S. spending in Haiti, he said, "You have a war here, you've got a surge coming with storms, but no face to hate, no country to rail at, no natural resources, and the faces here are black".

Initially Frank's attempts to right the world's wrongs using only his fists and ungainly body are ludicrous, foolhardy exercises that end in cuts and bruises at the hands of stronger and more ruthless foes.

This is a ludicrous example.

Stars — movie stars, rock stars, sports stars — exercise a ludicrous influence over the public consciousness.

The police later admitted to firing 87 rounds of tear gas in total, while making the ludicrous claim they had "exercised restraint" and "minimized the chance of people getting injured". As a matter of fact, it appears the protesters were the ones demonstrating restraint by repeatedly putting their arms in the air to show they weren't a threat.

Even with the most ludicrous or empty of presents, the exercise of following the object back to its intention is beneficial.

Describing this as a "high risk" practice is ludicrous.

Bathurst believes that his "ludicrous audition" was only "an arm-twisting exercise" because the producers wanted to persuade Dalton to take the role by telling him they were still auditioning other actors.