"Isn't laughing at a situation predicated on homosexuality saying, in some way, that to be gay is somehow slightly ridiculous – not wrong or evil – but somehow lesser, not ordinary, not completely sensible?
It was only the pleasure he felt in his tactile awareness of sewing and fabric, of the hands of the maker in the garment, that led him, again and again, to risk the danger of seeing himself — literally; reflected in the mirror of a bar, perhaps — as somehow faintly ridiculous.
"The suggestion I've seen in some of the attacks on Elena, that she is somehow antimilitary, is ridiculous and absurd," said Ronald A. Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a leading figure on the confirmation team.
Somehow it feels ridiculous to ask, after so long.
This way, the combat between the two women, however malevolent and ridiculous, somehow remains clean.
His needs are a touch of sanity that somehow makes the ridiculous proceedings seem real.
The sublime and the slightly ridiculous somehow merge in Tillman's ongoing tightrope walk into an arresting vision that is as singular as any in contemporary art.
But the performance is eerily still and calm, unshowy and unnerving, somehow intimidating and ridiculous at the same time, and rarely overtly comic, except when he graciously encourages Mark to call him by his nicknames "Eagle" or "Golden Eagle".
"The concept that a man who puts sperm in a cup is somehow illegal is ridiculous to me.
Similarly ridiculous, but somehow recognizable characters abound there, too.
