Sentence examples for silly turkey from inspiring English sources
I have always agreed with Franklin's assertion that we would have become a different kind of nation had we adopted for our symbol not a vicious bird of prey but the "vain & silly" turkey.
Like other charities whose work comes into seasonal focus around now, St Martin's moves far beyond the turkey dinner and the silly hat to find its clients a long-term future off the streets.
First the Finnish director cast his wife in the turkey Cutthroat Island (1995), before directing the silly macho flick The Long Kiss Goodnight.
A Republican staffer on Friday apologized for a Facebook post that criticized Malia and Sasha Obama's appearance at the annual White House turkey pardon ceremony, one of America's silliest holiday traditions.
It is possible that this feeling is contagious, because when we typed "turkey" into the search bar on Etsy, some really silly stuff happened.
But in conveying the song's silly lyrics, that was as close as he came to mimicking a turkey.
The eagle, Franklin said, was a "bird of bad moral character" with a better option being the turkey, which Franklin considered pleasingly courageous if a little "vain and silly".
If you ever doubt the idea that the very clever can also be very silly, just remember the time the smartest man in America tried to electrocute a turkey.
Franklin considered the bald eagle a "bird of bad moral character," while the turkey was "a much more respectable bird," and "though a little vain and silly, a Bird of Courage".
He's the man who's funny, and silly, and subversive, but in quite a gentle way, and whose comedy ranges as freely as the "free-spirit turkeys" he describes in his faux-celebrity memoir, Livin' the Dreem.
