Sentence examples for silly figure from inspiring English sources

By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, July 8 , 1939P. 73 Statistics show that women do 94.7percentnt of the nations buying, or some such silly figure.

His seven-year delay in getting to Palestine, despite his historic commitment to a two-state solution, his support for tyrants like President Hosni Mubarak, his conviction that God is on his side against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's invocations of Allah and his ludicrous posturing over his failure in Iraq make him an ultimately silly figure.

Barricelli's Gennaro evolves from a reclusive and somewhat silly figure into a shrewd and compassionate patriarch, reshaped by harrowing experiences.

The Grand Master of the no-tax lodge, Mr. Norquist is already such a silly figure that even people in his own party have stopped taking him seriously.

And have Mikhail D. Prokhorov hammer the message home by grabbing the mic to announce that, "I spend more to win championship than my good friend Mr. Putin wastes on silly Olympic figure skating and bobsled".

"Maybe a historian could figure out how we got this silly name," the vice-president for marketing said.

It can be quite stressful when these silly rating figures come up, which I don't believe in.

But because, as a society, we still look at hypochondriacs the way Molière depicted them in "Le Malade Imaginaire" — as really silly comical figures — I don't know that people who've come out of the closet as hypochondriacs would spark sympathy.

Silly me, I figured, "Hey, it's a dog.

The public image of the star has all of a sudden shifted from "avuncular authority figure with silly sweaters and a speech impediment" to "calculated, opportunistic predator with a taste for pudding".

At some point the football rolled beside him — silly now, he probably figured, like holding an A.T.M. card in the apocalypse.