Sentence examples for silly ass from inspiring English sources

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"I was the perfect silly ass," he said.

Stephen Mangan makes the silly ass not too appealing and just this side of maddening, with braying laugh and goofy gait.

And it all opened out on to a huge wraparound balcony; none of that lily-livered American fear of some silly ass falling off and the hotel being sued here, refreshingly.

As PG Wodehouse's silly ass Bertie Wooster, Carmichael was constantly saved from disaster by his manservant Jeeves, played by Dennis Price, a formula so effective that Mills doubted whether Carmichael could have played straight parts without provoking laughs.

"I" reports hundreds of his sayings: "E said I am a silly ass"; "E said I am stupid"; "E said I am 14 years old [this written when she was 20].

But, hey, every profession has its hardships, as Mr. Jarvis explained: "The Jeeves books are narrated first person by Bertie Wooster, a silly ass who doesn't understand what's going on.

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Ryanair, which has frequently clashed with the ASA, appears to enjoy goading a regulator it calls Absurd Silly Asses.

All the men I know of my generation have beat me to the boneyard, silly asses!

In fact, I'll go further than that: the reason why it's legitimate to gull people like Rayner into making silly asses of themselves on television is that, in a very important sense, they aren't real at all.

Annabel Leventon copes marginally better as a silly-ass, dandified Aguecheek without highlighting his pathetic desire always to be one of the party.

Yet Winslet nicely conveys Iris's serene sense of artistic destiny, and Hugh Bonneville shows that though he gets cast in silly-ass roles, he is a character actor of enormous depth and subtlety.

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