Sentence examples for simple silly from inspiring English sources

A mycologist hopes to show how a simple, silly experiment can illuminate fungal biology.

The Duke blunder was a simple, silly mistake — the confusing of two shades of blue in a split-second shot.

The Duke blunder was a simple, silly mistake the confusing of two shades of blue in a split-second shot.

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.

"The sin of capitalism," he writes, "is to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.

This is still the world I'm in – maybe a bit more sophisticated but at the beginning it is always a simple, silly idea.

People called it progressive rock, or prog rock: a genre intent on proving that rock and roll didn't have to be simple and silly — it could be complicated and silly instead.

"People respond because it's simple and silly," he said.

Why is something as simple and silly as sports in the same sentence with mass murder?

In an e-mail, Ms. Batkin wrote: "Steve didn't want his fun single friend having a girlfriend — as simple and silly as that is.

At an event notable for national grudges with intricate histories, playing out before an expected record worldwide audience, this simple, slightly silly, mass-produced noisemaker/instrument became a highly unlikely symbol of cultural meaning.