Sentence examples for seemingly silly from inspiring English sources

But the court is no stranger to the seemingly silly.

It is why Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma asked Ms. Kagan a seemingly silly hypothetical about the constitutionality of a law requiring Americans to eat three vegetables and fruits a day.

Beneath seemingly silly lyrics about "trollfolk," you can hear an expression of ethnic pride; plenty of other European metal bands (some of them great) express something similar in much less playful terms.

It's both entertaining and affecting, celebrating a certain kind of frivolous bauble while also showing that loving an art form, even a seemingly silly one, can enrich a life.

And those uncharmed may nevertheless feel a grudging admiration for the unlikely longevity of pop punk itself, a seemingly silly genre that still works as well as it ever did, more than twenty years after "Dookie," the Green Day album, pushed it into the mainstream.

Their early zeal, while seemingly silly, paid off.

Even the seemingly silliest of the locals, Mickey, self-proclaimed last surviving extra from the filming of the 1952 John Wayne/Maureen O'Hara movie "The Quiet Man," has plenty of scars, plenty of insight underneath the surface.

This constraint is why so many founders seem to end up working on totally silly, seemingly trivial things in the consumer space.

But while some uses of technology are more admirable than others, Butterfield said he wouldn't want to live in a world where people weren't able to spend time making seemingly frivolous or silly innovations.

This may be seemingly little or silly stuff as well as your dreams and visions.

It is an attempt to convey the sheer confusion and bewilderment of this process, through a series of surreal, often silly and seemingly pointless moments.