Sentence examples for ludicrous performance from inspiring English sources

The new sports memoirs tend toward ludicrous performance art — the literary offspring, if you will, of Wilt Chamberlain, who asserted in "A View From Above" (1991) that he had slept with nearly 20,000 women.

The first interesting difference of opinion is on the subject of Best Supporting Actress: Silver says Taraji P. Henson, of "Benjamin Button"; on pure artistic quality, I'm with him; but all (all!) the oddsmakers listed on easyodds.com give the nod to Penélope Cruz for her (ludicrous) performance in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"—and almost all make Henson the biggest long shot.

He is already a household name thanks to his brave, sometimes ludicrous performances.

Mr. McCain came to the debate after one of the more ludicrous performances by a presidential candidate.

Even as a student, in his first polemical fight with a Tory clergyman, Samuel Seabury, Hamilton derided the older man's essay as "puerile and fallacious," then added, "I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances which has been exhibited to public view during all the present controversy".

In its 7 December 2010 issue, Heat magazine said series 7 of The X Factor had been the best series to date, citing many of the controversies, plus events such as Lloyd singing on a spiral staircase, Wagner's "ludicrous" performances and Walsh likening Richardson to "a little Lenny Henry", as moments that helped make it "the most deliriously, thrilling, controversial and demented yet.

Smaller scale examples of this occurred throughout the year, with X Factor's ridiculous Halloween performance being one of the more ludicrous ones.

While the standard Model X will go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.8 seconds, a Ludicrous upgrade on the performance model nudges that elapsed time down to 3.2 seconds as the vehicle rockets to a top speed of 155mph.

"Tesla is designed as a performance vehicle — Ludicrous mode and all that kind of stuff," Euchner said.

"As day followed day," he wrote, "and we trooped in and out of the pavilion, the whole performance became somewhat ludicrous".

These performances, packed with ludicrous digressions and mixing silly jokes with moments of awkward bleakness, have made this impressively bearded North Carolinan a cult favourite among comedy fans on both sides of the Atlantic.