Sentence examples for somehow silly from inspiring English sources

He found things to like himself, but called it "a very labored somehow silly Vassar affair".

That so many of us find this argument somehow silly and immaterial surely has something to do with the way terrorism (whatever that is) rattles our sense of safety far beyond reason.

Nancy Vedder-Shults Madison, Wis., Jan . 1 , 2011 To the Editor: Dear Fellow Boomers: In the years we have left, how about we just ignore the scribes behind the curtain, the cliché makers who want to label us as "self-absorbed" and somehow silly.

I can't tell you how often I have encountered the attitude that because these stories are about women's lives, they are somehow superficial, silly, or unimportant.

At one point Jackson empathizes with the moon, without making a big deal about it, and, somehow, without sounding silly.

It continues to be seen as somehow trivial, just silly insulting nonsense that should be ignored.

Silly, but somehow reassuring".

More like a silly and somehow implausible schoolgirl.

This silly thing somehow evokes the power of music to cast a spell.

Similarly, on the show, Carson seems engaged and at the same time removed, a curious blend that Mr. O'Brien describes as "appearing to be broad and silly and somehow coming off as the coolest guy in the room".

From the silly but somehow sublime to the just plain ridiculous; Rock of Ages (2012, Warner, 12) is one of those knowingly naff stage musicals that, in the right hands, might have become a guilty screen pleasure in the manner of Mamma Mia!