Sentence examples for ludicrous figure from inspiring English sources

"He struck me as a ludicrous figure, and so delusional.

Sarkozy is a fairly ludicrous figure, as were Bill Clinton and George W.

Number 10 has been trying to contain the damage by briefing that the former work and pensions secretary is a ludicrous figure with an ulterior motive.

To many liberal-minded Germans of the twenties, Hitler was a scary but ludicrous figure who did not seem to represent a serious threat.

Although described as "a small, knotty man, with the build of a jockey, a long underslung jaw and strange deep eyes," Toussaint strikes a robust (if occasionally ludicrous) figure in his plumed hat astride his horse, Bel Argent.

Its hero, Liberace, as portrayed (or, rather, channelled) by Michael Douglas, is a ludicrous figure, a talented pianist who plays drivel, whose stage persona exudes self-satisfied vanity, whose shtick is woefully corny, whose garish taste is painful to the eye, whose boasts of innovations (including the extraordinary notion of putting a candelabra on his piano) are trivial.

Max Hastings, then reporting for the Evening Standard, described him as "appalling" and said that he and Smith "would have seemed ludicrous figures, had they not possessed the power of life and death over millions of people"; Van der Byl had him deported.

There is something dismal and ludicrous about that figure: 450,000 adults, having flown the nest, forced to crawl back home to ask mummy and daddy for some fiscal TLC.

Ludicrous and dubious figures, given to reliably ludicrous and dubious pronouncements, emerge periodically from the political mist – Grant Shapps, Iain Duncan Smith, Sajid Javid – and columns featuring them begin to write themselves.

The government reckons that roof-top solar panels can take more than 100 years to pay for themselves in lower energy bills (although sun-gatherers say this figure is "ludicrous").

TV presenter Ben Fogle, who has visited the Chagos Islands and campaigns for their people's right to return, describes the £64m figure as ludicrous given that the Chagossians only wanted a gradual resettlement programme.