Sentence examples for there a silly from inspiring English sources

Carmen Ghia, the waspish assistant of the swishy director Roger DeBris, imitates the hard-boiled producer Julian Marsh in "42nd Street" by slapping a stage-shy DeBris and commanding, "You're going out there a silly, hysterical screaming queen, and you're coming back a great, big passing-for-straight Broadway star!" Take that, Peggy Sawyer!

A sticky situation there, but a silly one as well.

When she saw Sylvia looking at her she stopped and flung out her arms as if she was splayed there, making a silly gargoyle-like face.

We get it: there's a silly number of mobile messaging apps out there, and a great many of them are meant for you to share your banalities more easily.

"There is a silly Wrigley chewing-gum ad you should check out.

Shows encompass stand-up, magic and puppetry, and there is a "silly disco" with dressing up and prizes.

There's a silly debate under way about who bears responsibility for the sequester, which almost everyone now agrees was a really bad idea.

There's a silly montage of various musicians and their sexual styles; hot maestros are besieged by crowds of autograph hounds.

("Fucking dentist! Lording it over me with his tooth knowledge!") The BBC gets it in the neck for interviewing a leave voter without addressing his swastika tattoos, and there's a silly, splenetic takedown of the "not human" Michael Gove.

Liebesman just keeps things rolling, and there is a silly but rich satisfaction in watching men of arms — or a woman of arms, in the case of Tech Sergeant Santos Michelle Rodriguezz), who has hitched a ride with the marines — grow ever more resourceful as the fight proceeds.

There's a silly tendency among reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic to snipe at translators of the opposite ilk for using their own variety of English, the Brits complaining that American translators have spoiled their texts with "Americanisms" and vice versa.