Sentence examples for silly behavior from inspiring English sources

Within a week they were e-mailing three or four times a day, discussing teaching tactics, life lessons learned from basketball, the advantages of being left-handed (both are) and their love of silly behavior and of ESPN.

Both men had a deep affection for the comedy of foolishness and a bone-deep affinity for their hapless characters that drove them to depict silly behavior without ridiculing those caught in it.

Additionally, researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that playful or silly behavior makes people more attractive to others.

(Confession: I tend to goof around a bit on the course. Running by spectators and shouting "More cow bell!" is a favorite silly behavior).

If the specifics of his depiction bother you, remember: Radagast's increasing detachment from people and attachment to animals, his apparently silly behavior, his loyalty to Gandalf, and his estrangement from Saruman are all mentioned by Tolkien.

The "psych-out" defense may use props, hollering, and all kinds of silly behavior as diversion tactics, but is not supposed to actually touch the ball or the shooter, limit his/her line of sight, or impair his/her vision (such as putting your hands in front of his/her face).

Fun is not their main objective, and yet even viewers familiar with contemporary art come at them through the filter of later works like the "Passstücke," loosely translated as "Adaptives," of the Viennese artist Franz West from the '70s and '80s — plaster sculpture-prosthetics that encouraged silly, absurdist behavior.

Given that we're dyed-in-the-wool value investors, you might expect a lecture on how silly such behavior is.

And, if history is any indication, four years from now, the same silly, greedy behavior will once again repeat itself in Brazil.

But it's another thing entirely to engage in this kind of silly, irrational behavior as a business owner, politician or political pundit in reaction to the results of an election.

If you're a teenager wanted to be liked more among other peers, remember that the silly, destructive behavior that people may inflict upon you will probably fade as these people get older and more mature.