Sentence examples similar to risible acts from inspiring English sources

Not for nothing is the team called the Harpooners, even if "this might have seemed like a stretch, not to say a risible act of desperation — to adopt Melville a thousand miles from where he spent his life, ninety years after a visit that lasted a day".

An hour of numbingly tedious potter precedes the inevitable twist-reveal, which plunges us into a risible final act combining the twin pleasures of Yahtzee and adult incontinence.

This haughty pose can become a teeny bit risible.

Mulholland said the idea that Megrahi had acted alone was "risible".

"Megrahi was a member of the Libyan security service – it is risible to think that he acted alone.

Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland said the idea that Megrahi acted alone was "risible", and added that he would be "failing in his duty" if he did not find the people who were responsible for the bombing.

The acting is risible, sure, and the attitude toward basic filmmaking conventions blasé, almost insolent.

From George Cukor's surreal presentation in "The Women" to Michael Lange's catwalk dream sequence in "The Intern," directors' efforts to capture the ordered disorder at a runway show have been as risible as Cindy Crawford's attempts to act.

Our lawmakers' sudden outrage is all a bit rich and risible.

One sometimes detects a vindictive glint in Carson's eye when a number of gags sink without risible trace, but McCormick assures me that this is all part of the act and causes no outbreaks of cold sweat among the writing team.

He then giggled over a tableau of his rise to power acted out by dwarfs, one that told the risible lie that he – rather than his Machiavellian genius of a granddad Lord Tywin Lannister – had won the Battle of the Five Kings to put Joffrey on the Iron Throne.