Sentence examples for mildly silly from inspiring English sources

Reviewers do not appear to despise a real rapist such as Polanski, but they do seem to despise four fictional women who are portraying mildly silly lives.

"I think it's silly, mildly amusing and good for Adelaide fringe".

Everyone from Samuel Beckett to David Letterman has turned a mildly funny conceit into something fantastically silly by beating it to death.

(Sisario) BEN LEE (Wednesday) Mr. Lee is a singer and songwriter from Australia whose innocuous power-pop ranges from mildly beguiling ("Catch My Disease") to silly ("American Television").

(Petrusich) Ben Lee (Monday) Mr. Lee is a singer and songwriter from Australia whose innocuous power-pop ranges from mildly beguiling ("Catch My Disease") to silly ("American Television") to fully preposterous.

Walker offers this diagnosis himself, leeringly dismissing Pearl as a silly mommy, awash with hormones, mildly hysterical.

The result is an uber-cerebral spoof that is at once silly and smart, populist like a mildly trashy B-movie yet high brow like absurdist theater.

"People are always trying to catch me doing something crazy on camera," he mildly commented to the golfers, who now wanted to pummel me silly.

"People are always try to catch me doing something crazy on camera," he mildly commented to the golfers who now want to pummel me silly.

So the Corvette — mildly distrusted by the corporate suits as an un-American beast and a silly indulgence — couldn't be allowed to disrupt the safe-and-sane advertising face.

"He does do some pretty silly things now and again, doesn't he, mummy?" our heroine remarks mildly, having just duped her father into rubbing peroxide in his hair.