Sentence examples for the very silly from inspiring English sources

The Royal and Derngate still plays host to the very silly Greek tragedy spoof, Oedipussy.

After all even the very silly, but vile, Julien Blanc, the seducers' guru, has been banned.

I have also made the very silly mistake of forgetting that in Tuscany, nothing, not even check-in times, get in the way of a good dinner.

The very silly marabou bedroom slipper, as worn, one imagines, by Jayne Mansfield, were streamlined into pastel designs with a pom-pom of fluff on the toe.

The problem with all these very silly prophecies about how the Y chromosome is being gradually rendered unnecessary, is that they isn't restricted 2 Yahoo Chat @ 3AM.

The rest of the script is equally well known: from the bleak ("Bring out yer dead") to the very, very silly ("You're using coconuts").

Ms. Contes, who called the posts "very silly" and "high school garbage," was disqualified seven months after she won.

He has used him in Gangs of New York (where DiCaprio was demolished by Daniel Day-Lewis), The Aviator (a very silly film) and The Departed (where he was squeezed to the edges of the frame by sharper actors).

But Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, called back the next day to denounce the suit as "very silly," and to offer a story about how his hand had been bitten three times -- twice by unleashed dogs in Riverside Park, and now by the dog owners themselves.

(And I shall after all link to the hilarious and very silly review, totally unrelated to the point of this blog, from the marvellous West End Whingers, here).

The drama should feel VERY real to the characters but be very silly in contrast to anything you read in the world-news section of the New York Times.