Sentence examples for that seems laughable from inspiring English sources
To victims and their descendants that seems laughable.
Just five years ago, New York's Second Avenue Subway was supposed to be done by 2020, a goal that seems laughable now.The sub-headline of Mr Doig's story promises suggestions for dealing with this problem, but the actual article focuses more on explaining why infrastructure projects take so much longer in America than they do in China.
And he will subject himself to the kind of self-criticism that seems laughable to those of us privileged to listen to him.
The list of set-backs goes on: Russian nationalism in the Baltic republics underlines the fragility of Europe's eastern borders; a European common 'defense' that is regularly mocked by Russian incursions into European airspace; politically correct European soft power that seems laughable against the reach of ISIS.
That seems laughable now.
Because anybody with two eyes (or even one – actually even none, as league tables are available in brail aren't they?) can read that they are 11th in La Liga, a position that seems laughable, given their European exploits.
Lucas's most significant business decision — one that seemed laughable to the Fox executives at the time — was to forgo his option to receive an additional five-hundred-thousand-dollar fee from Fox for directing "Star Wars" and to take the merchandising and sequel rights instead.
The Pritzkers have eschewed the public markets for two decades, ever since Jay Pritzker, appalled by the meager valuation Hyatt was receiving on Wall Street, bought out the public's 25% stake for $12.5 million–a figure that now seems laughable.
In France, where hunters have been known to demonstrate for their right to shoot migrating birds, the notion that bird habitats could disappear seems laughable: there's just so much space.
The notion that either player could mount a serious challenge seems laughable.
Whatever Labour does, the public seems to have fallen out of love with politicians so comprehensively that the idea of some 1997-esque new dawn seems laughable.
