Sentence examples for was silly on from inspiring English sources

Bruce Allen's posturing last offseason — "I don't think it's as complicated as everyone wants to make it, and we'll get together with his agent, and I'm sure we'll come to an agreement," the executive said — was silly on its face; Cousins's dad later told Sports Illustrated that his son would have turned down even a deal making him the highest-paid player in league history.

I was silly on a few disreputable television programs.

It becomes him; his acting would probably be silly on any other scale.

It is silly on its face to defend such an article -- no matter who are the subjects, or how "political" their careers -- as a front-page news story.

We may realize that such a move is silly on Verizon's end because its own app store sounds like more carrier BS, but as the nation's largest network, they are in a position of power.

You show, however, that while the moment-to-moment manifestations of the culture wars, from the fainting over Piss Christ to Dan Quayle attacking Murphy Brown, may have been silly on their face, they represented a genuinely important argument over changes happening in America and the changing definition of who and what an American was.

It's silly on its face.

The entire notion is silly on its face.

"It gives me a canvas to be silly on," he tells me.

"The idea that the bill will add costs to the state is silly on its face," he said.

This was particularly revolutionary as she helped paved the way for actresses to be silly on screen.