Everyone appreciates effort so if men do appear to melt before her, I think it's probably because they can see the feverish lengths she is going to, to look as if she fancies them, and the ludicrousness of it melts their hearts a little bit, even Sugar's.
The inherent ludicrousness of Public Enemy appealing to a clueless white teenager didn't bother me or my best friend James, who from that moment on understood the significance of street justice, the urgency of the black revolution that we, personally, must somehow propel forward on the orders of Chuck D and his sidekick, a man with a big clock around his neck.
Blandings works as a comedy because it juxtaposes these characters' supposed nobility with their ludicrousness and fallibility".
If the characters take it more seriously than anyone else, then that emphasises the ludicrousness of their behaviour".
The links between freedom, democracy, and Coke may not be "inextricable" — I know of one or two freedom-loving Americans who can't stand the stuff — but Standage mostly avoids the ludicrousness of the "how chicken made the modern world" genre of pop history.
For all this, it was essential that one take him seriously, and this was very hard to do, unless one sought the easiest way out of the dilemma between the unspeakable horror of the deeds and the undeniable ludicrousness of the man who perpetrated them, and declared him a clever, calculating liar — which he obviously was not.
"An Octoroon" exposes this ludicrousness, without prohibiting a sympathetic viewing of Boucicault's play.
Bleszinski told me that a paintball match had impressed upon him the ludicrousness of how most shooters operated, with players running around in the open, strafing their enemies and jumping to avoid being shot.
In a nod to the ludicrousness of zipping through more than two centuries in 75 minutes, he cracks a joke about how everyone's an expert on the Constitution, even though no one has read it.
Shot primarily in and around some crumbling tower blocks in Glasgow, "Citadel" occasionally veers into ludicrousness, especially with the introduction of an angry priest (James Cosmo) who turns out to have a connection to the murderous minors.
Later, Masha's refusal to end her and Vershinin's farewell embrace teeters on the brink of ludicrousness, but Mr. Waters has them pull back just in time.
