| 单词 | ludicrous |
| 例句 | Nowadays there is money enough for buying useless and slightly ludicrous gifts for my mother and father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Really? I came to check on the building,” Zeitoun said, smiling, knowing how ludicrous it sounded. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z As ludicrous as she sounded, she meant it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I’ve read The Zaniest Summer four times, and the ludicrous situations still make me laugh. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Ron caught Harry’s eye and grinned; Harry knew that he was remembering the ludicrous headdress they had seen on their visit to Xenophilius. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Thank you. I’m not really that ludicrous, but thanks anyway for saying so. See? That’s how it works.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was ludicrous that he could be accused of leading him away, ludicrous, but entirely possible. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The idea of me in a poufy gown, gliding across a stage like I own it is ludicrous. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “But Johanna was there, holding a gun. It was ludicrous. The Bureau people seemed really disturbed by it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In fact, to my eyes, the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Mother decided at this point that the situation was too ludicrous for Dad to miss, and that he’d never forgive her if she didn’t deal him in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was ludicrous for white middle-class students to claim social oppression. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem ludicrous to address as large and intractable a problem as white-collar crime through the life of a bagel man. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’d like to say, We go in and search for clues like the Argonauts we are, but even the thought of those words is ludicrous. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “I got this tomato from Colonel Cathcart,” he said, and was struck by how ludicrous his explanation sounded. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a small-minded and ludicrous insult, sure, but his mocking of my intellect, his marginalizing of my young self, carried with it a larger dismissiveness. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Looking at her now, pushing her tangled hair from her face, the idea is ludicrous. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The regime was going insane, issuing the most ludicrous regulations. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Was the ludicrous attempt to arrest him the beginning of a bad cycle? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Stated so baldly, this notion—that the indigenous peoples of the Americas floated changelessly through the millennia until 1492—may seem ludicrous. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A thoughtlessly placed dangler can confuse the reader or slow her down, and occasionally it can lure her into a ludicrous interpretation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Though it seems ludicrous to suggest that the outcome of the Fischer–Spassky match was predictable after only two games had been completed, one point going to each player, the case can be made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol sounds ludicrous to his ears, lacking dignity or gravity. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The closeness of a familiar face was not ludicrous, it was wondrous. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’d rather not ask the obscene motive for this. I’d like to think that you’re attempting to make amends in your simple way for slandering me on my dismal first day with this ludicrous wagon.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That is barely two years ago—and now here stands Territorial Kantorek, the spell quite broken, with bent knees, arms like pothooks, unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig-out—an impossible soldier. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a ludicrous idea, to travel fifteen hundred miles when her blood relatives lived fifty miles from New Orleans, but she’d run to Yuko’s house before and could do so again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And anyway, the idea that we would celebrate anything right now is so ludicrous I don’t continue. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She came to me at once, a strange rather ludicrous figure in her eastern drapery, the bangles jangling on her wrists. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A Drill Instructor appeared in the doorway, his distinctive, somewhat ludicrous hat pulled low over his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Esthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Would it be absolutely ludicrous to try to make out?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Nothing could look more ludicrous than his forage-cap and his uniform. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Until that moment, there was still something ludicrous about having a familiar face so close to one's own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z All those prosperous, solid men out there would discover now that they had elected a ludicrous waif. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Harry isn’t going to keep it!” said Hermione, as though the idea were ludicrous. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s the other one talking now, and as ludicrous as it sounds, it’s actually quite hard to recognize them without their balaclavas. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Surely her example spurred me on to pursue what now seems ludicrous, but at the time was the height of my post-Manzanar ambitions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are they letting her speak in public now? What in the world does the title of this ludicrous lecture mean?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the nineteenth century, most Americans considered female suffrage a ludicrous idea, a radical position first suggested by a radical woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Thank God you understand. You can see how ludicrous and impossible everything has become.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “In course!” he exclaimed, with a twang of voice and a distortion of features equally fantastic and ludicrous. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “This must be the influence of that ludicrous representative of the law. He seems to have turned you against your own child. By the way, he has left, hasn’t he?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Lee looked, saw the ludicrous man in the lustrous hat and the wide gray coat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora hated the ludicrous slave display and preferred to get it over as soon as possible. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The adventure of the summer seemed suddenly ludicrous. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry didn’t mind; it made him feel better that Fred and George, at least, thought the idea of his being Slytherins heir was quite ludicrous. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Watching the world end in various, ever more ludicrous ways sanded the jagged edges off the day. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I had a brief, ludicrous picture of the old, rather heavy woman banging a SIM calie over the head with her ubiquitous black purse. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is quite literally the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “I’ll give you that Tennant brought a gravitas to the Doctor that grounded the insanity of the ludicrous situations he got himself into, but Matt Smith didn’t play the Doctor, he was the Doctor.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The entire Life Drawing class would be viewed as pretentious, and also ludicrous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Back at Del Mar, officials supported Howard, stating that the accusations that Seabiscuit had been restrained, or that Howard or Smith had told Woolf to do so, were ludicrous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so ludicrous I wanted to cry. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Hermione had lisped and pranced and pirouetted through their childhoods, showing off at every available moment with no thought—so her scowling, silent older sister believed—for how ludicrous and desperate she appeared. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In spite of their twisted, ludicrous impressions of East Enders, the concern and the tears in their eyes had been genuine. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It would have been ludicrous to put him in command of a kingdom as Theseus was put; he had more than enough to do to command himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He pedaled harder, an idea forming in his mind, one that felt big and silly and ludicrous. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A particularly ludicrous example of this potential miscegenation was a 1968 photograph of Pat Nixon dancing with a black man at a White House function. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z How utterly ludicrous those words seem now, perched like a cheap toy on the lip of a grave. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “However, the legend of which you speak is such a very sensational, even ludicrous tale —” But the whole class was now hanging on Professor Binns’s every word. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Diem claimed to have won a ludicrous 98.2 percent of the vote; in Saigon, he somehow received more votes than there were registered voters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The domesticity in this poem, these kitchens, gardens, ponds...is not a metaphor for the ludicrous war in the South Atlantic in this year?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The bubonic plague is a valid medieval fate; I do believe, though, that contracting the plague in this dreadful century would be only ludicrous. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, that was a joke, by the way. I do know what ludicrous means.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Nhamo thought that was ludicrous, but she was far too worried to laugh. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Both brothers lashed out with their arms and legs, but Bull’s weight had both of them pinned in ludicrous, humiliating positions. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It might seem ludicrous to believe I caused Jesse’s suicide, but in the dearth of answers he left behind, it makes as much sense as anything else. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Although many of these antisuffrage sentiments may seem ludicrous to us today, they were taken seriously by those who felt threatened by the prospect of women attaining the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Adorned with hammered silver discs, rows of beading, brightly colored dyed feathers and bright pompoms, it somehow makes me feel not ludicrous but regal. A scenic spin through the hills of southwestern China 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Hence the ludicrous situation where many evangelical organisations, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, have statements of faith where the first point is the Bible, before any mention of, for example, God. How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z So the sticking point isn't Charlotte's insecurity, which is played for laughs by showing the ludicrous extremes to which she'll subject herself in pursuit of her youthful figure. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Spiraling inflation, widespread corruption and ludicrous financial thinking were erasing Venezuela’s historic oil boom. The Disaster That Is Venezuela 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z I’m careful to remind my friends that my book is meant to be ludicrous. Motherlode Blog: Read This, or Be the Worst Parent Ever 2012-03-23T19:40:58Z The huge size is a witty representation of the vastness to which modern media's magnifying lens inflated the ludicrous lapel-pin hullabaloo. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z After Bean's description was circulated, innocent hunchbacks were detained in what Murphy calls "one of the most ludicrous episodes in the history of police profiling". Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z As Barry weaves in and out of gridlocked traffic, gently singing to himself, each of his pursuers falls away in absurd accidents, the most ludicrous culminating in a perversely ridiculous stand-off at a car dealership. From beignet bites to a deadly dance, here are 2022's best TV episodes. Well, six of them, anyway 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z It's a tad ludicrous, when taking a step back, to believe that the world of crime lords and hit men would be so formal that they would have regal titles for themselves. "John Wick: Chapter 3" is easy to like, but hard to love 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z In its dispassionate tone “R” is the opposite of a ludicrous S&M soap opera like the former HBO series “Oz.” | 'R': Life in the Big House: The Danish Experience 2011-06-16T23:36:42Z But Key is weirdly asked in the dumb show prelude of “The Mousetrap” to do some physical comedy that might have been too ludicrous for his “Key and Peele” comedy show. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z But most importantly, the two have fantastic chemistry and by the end of the second episode Riggs’ sullen tics are a bit less ludicrous. Lethal Weapon remake: loud, ludicrous and lovable 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The more ludicrous gags, as when little Helen stumbles and bellows in her pathetic act, score big laughs — and big winces. Dan Savage's campy 'Miracle!': a delight to some, drag for others 2012-07-19T03:56:53Z “It’s been a full banquet every week, how spectacularly ludicrous this election season has been,” she says. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Cleese, now 83, played Basil Fawlty, who was forced to contend with disasters and ludicrous situations while displaying all the kindness and hospitality of sandpaper. John Cleese to Reboot ‘Fawlty Towers’ 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The motto seemed singularly ludicrous for the concert opening the orchestra’s 31st season on Thursday evening at Alice Tully Hall. Review: All Beethoven, All Evening, on Period Instruments 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps in reaction to the criticism of some of the more ludicrous story lines on “Studio 60,” Sorkin didn’t wanted to make up the news wholesale again. “Newsroom”: Aaron Sorkin does “The Daily Show” 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z He hopes to photograph the people that he meets during his expedition, a ludicrous, paradoxical idea for a man who proves wholly incapable of seeing the world around him. ‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually) 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Inciting fury over a ludicrous status quo has been part of the dramatic tradition since the ancient Greeks. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Watching Succession is continually having the realization, as the star Brian Cox told a recent roundtable, that “life is ludicrous and becomes increasingly more ludicrous and you just go, well, I’m part of the ludicrosity”. Filthy rich: why the awful antics of Succession are so addictive 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The Bull hurled the coat off his terrace in a ludicrous domestic spat. Gifts Galore: ‘Easy Living,’ With Jean Arthur and a Coat From the Heavens 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The idea of that character managing to consume this woman was suddenly ludicrous. Lesley Manville Has Waited Long Enough 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In the novel’s most ludicrous scene, Moncrief forces an intransigent chimp to kiss his ring, a gold signet adorned with “a pair of intertwined snakes with tiny rubies for eyes.” Review | T.C. Boyle captures the intersection of folly and progress. This time, it’s the ill-fated Project Nim. 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Reviewers called the special effects absurdly obvious and the screenplay ludicrous. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “I think it is ludicrous that we are not performing together,” Mr. Taylor told Rolling Stone last year. Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, Dies at 45 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Something drastic happens in the fourth episode, and it is so ludicrous that it strains credulity. House of Cards: a KKK connection isn't all Frank Underwood and Donald Trump share 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z “And taking that massive responsibility. And trying to persuade a foreign government to do something that was, on paper, quite ludicrous.” In ‘The Rescue’ a perilous underwater mission in focus 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The audience just went ludicrous — they were jumping up, trying to grab the beams.” How concerts shifted from songs to spectacles But it does boast a very charming premise, built around a truly ludicrous misunderstanding that I found impossible to resist. ‘Something From Tiffany’s’ Review: Put a Ring on It 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z It was all about Argo, a nerve-shredder of a movie with such a ludicrous plot that it would have been laughable if it wasn't true. Baftas: stars dress for show not snow as awards hail director Ben Affleck 2013-02-10T21:57:39Z Not to sound ludicrous but I think that allows people, you know, a certain amount of buffer to the brutality. Dead Tree Alert: TV’s Bumper Crop of Blood; Plus: Kurt Sutter on the Uses of Mayhem 2013-02-28T13:14:43Z Abandoning the vehicle to a predatory bear, he swaggers in ludicrous Western get-up into a frontier town saloon and announces he is Clint Eastwood which, of course, makes nobody’s day very much at all. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Interpreting “The Handmaid’s Tale” for those who haven’t read it is a tricky business; the basic plot has a way of seeming ludicrous and even strident on any page except one written by Atwood. Review | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ isn’t just timely, it’s essential viewing for our fractured culture 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z There is not a trace of that borough in Adam’s voice, and in a ludicrous casting choice, Richard Dreyfuss plays his father, a security guard with emphysema who embodies solid working-class values. Movie Review: In ‘Paranoia,’ a Spy Infiltrates a Rival’s Business Empire 2013-08-15T22:26:22Z Just a decade before, however, the idea that Broadway would use the penthouse of the Christodora as a touchstone of glamour seemed ludicrous. The Interloper on Avenue B 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Every ludicrous bit of church dogma is served up deadpan. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Inside Scientology 2013-01-18T19:49:42Z The nonracist characters are professional allies; one is actually martyred, in a ludicrous series of events, after storming away from a racist relative. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “It was a ludicrous amount of work to write each address so it was legible with enough letters connecting to stop it falling apart,” recalled Mr. Heatherwick. Design: Season's Greetings, Made by Hand 2010-12-20T08:30:02Z In an accusation that seemed ludicrous to those who knew him, his ex-wife accused him of mistreating the children. I believe in full equality, but I’ve spent too long watching women play the victim 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z It was the only duff note in Natalie Press's otherwise haunting portrayal of Catherine, and sounded absolutely ludicrous, smashing the poetic beauty and structure of the speech. Radio review: Wuthering Heights 2011-03-27T20:30:01Z The idea to render the pigs seemed totally ludicrous at first; seeing it actually work was truly memorable. "The Colony": "Survivor" meets the apocalypse 2010-08-07T23:01:00Z But even at its most ludicrous — when it is shouting into your ear — its sheer audacity grabs your attention. Movie Review: ?Detachment,? Starring Adrien Brody, Directed by Tony Kaye 2012-03-15T22:50:47Z It’s a ludicrous plan — comic if it weren’t propelled by mourning. Review | A daughter searches for her mother’s secrets in Kashmir but finds only more questions 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z This is street food in Lebanon, but the Lebanese Bakery is not selling at a ludicrous price: most items on its menu sell for £6, which seems reasonable for a modest lunch or hearty breakfast. Manousheh: the Lebanese breakfast pizza that stole my heart 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z “Taken 2” staged another kidnapping under the hilariously ludicrous premise that the father of the villain in “Taken” would want to avenge the unjust death of his generic sleazebag sex-trafficking son. The surprisingly durable second act of Liam Neeson 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z This is all so ludicrous that it’s hard to take the rest of the show seriously. Game of Silence: hokey prison drama won't get people talking 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z “The concept, on the face of it, is ridiculous: a guy brings beer to his friends in the Vietnam War, that’s ludicrous,” said Farrelly, who signed on as director. For the Love of Beer and His Buddies 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The show is also constantly floating the ludicrous notion that the life of a golfer is physically draining. Television Review | 'Being John Daly': Sand Trap of His Own Making 2010-03-01T23:28:00Z The problem essentially, at this point at least, is that Noah’s version seems ludicrous and Alison’s seems true. 'The Affair' Recap: When 'She Said' Is More Believable Than 'He Said' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Suffice to say, this spinoff from the story of a magical kingdom besieged by an evil empire is too ludicrous for words. Review: ‘Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV,’ Where the Bad Guys Sport Silly Hats 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z And in these few moments allocated me, it would be ludicrous on my part — for the sake of brevity — to delve into the ultimate why. Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World’s Foremost Authority, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z For example, telling you that N. T. Rama Rao Jr.'s hero Komaram Bheem swings a motorcycle over his head like it's a laundry bag full of dry socks sounds ludicrous. Forget "Top Gun." "RRR" is the ultimate summer movie – explosive, inspiring & with catchy dance beat 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z For Shakespeare, the spectacle of working-class buffoons trying to stage noble tragedy seemed to be inherently ludicrous, but later artists targeted their mockery at the élites themselves, re-centering their stories on figures from the margins. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z His father was crushed by the accusation, says Joe Jr. “No one came to his defense. Her argument was ludicrous. Anyone who goes into an interview knows all bets are off.” Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Still, Russell’s earnestly clenched, intrinsically decent performance – pulsing and perspiring in such ideal contrast to the late, great Walsh’s unflappable, silver-eyed villain – keeps you in his tight corner to the ludicrous end. My streaming gem: why you should watch Breakdown 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z “Emergency Declaration,” a piercing thriller from the South Korean writer-director Han Jae-rim, manages to deliver excitement and melodrama out of a ludicrous story line. ‘Emergency Declaration’ Review: Midair Contagion 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Exit, pursued by a bear,” is the seemingly ludicrous stage direction, just before a main character is devoured offstage. ‘The Winter’s Tale’: The blockbuster ballet that almost wasn’t 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In his original conception, George was called Fifi — which seems ludicrous — and in various translations he has appeared as Zozo, Bingo or Coco. Curious George turns 75: Why the monkey and the Man in the Yellow Hat endure 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z That’s “The Devouring” in a goblet: a hedonic overload that skims the ludicrous. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z But it was also a time when an act forbidding accusations of witchcraft was thought necessary, and natural philosophers still justified their investigations into the deep past against the ludicrous timeframe established by Bishop Ussher. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z There’s a word for a sincere performance in a ludicrous film that takes itself seriously: camp. Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Another said the demon’s “ludicrous meanness destroys the terror which is the soul of the scene.” Hidden Demon Uncovered in 18th-Century Painting 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Not only isn’t it ready for critics but I’m not sure it’s up to the scrutiny of paying customers — at least not at these ludicrous prices. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In her search for sensation she undermines her novel, lessening the charm of her evocation of 19th-century London with a denouement that is not only ludicrous but fundamentally misconceived and mean-spirited. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z While complimenting one another on how “intelligent and qualified” they all are, the group proceeds to exchange ludicrous anecdotes about Pound, the woman. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Only Ms. Benanti, with her ludicrous self-pleasure and inscrutable intentions, achieves the perfect, heightened style to land the airy jokes while maintaining a bright, solid presence. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Thicke, no matter how ludicrous a suit he may choose to wear, will be helpless to overcome her. Critic’s Notebook: Miley Cyrus, Secret Weapon, Blows the Smooth Out of the Summer 2013-08-30T00:01:48Z Setting aside the ludicrous idea of vaccinated people turning into zombies, the urge to process real-life events by comparing them to familiar entertainment is natural. No, COVID has nothing to do with zombie vampires, but misinformation about ‘I Am Legend’ is swirling 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z But that’s only because what it’s up to is so ludicrous that logical conjecture is doomed to fail. ‘Come Back to Me,’ a Gory Horror Tale 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It sounds funny, almost ludicrous, but Mr. Shoval isn’t remotely playing this for laughs. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z This show's twist emulsifies the supernatural into the ludicrous. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z But the current administration is unpredictable and pumps out ludicrous breaking news items each day, proving a ratings boon for late-night series. If late-night comedy goes on strike: What happens if Jimmy Fallon has to write his own jokes? 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z For all Paul’s ludicrous ravings about the Red Sox and a Lost Tribe and the girlfriends who got away, he’s frightened of something profound and universal. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ As for the ludicrous nightgown and cap, I liked it. Kermit: how are the Muppets feeling about their movie comeback? 2012-02-09T20:00:05Z For years we've struggled manfully into some quite ludicrous garments – often requiring the help of a friend, relative or expensive machinery in order to achieve sartorial fulfillment. Are skinny jeans destroying hipster sperm counts? 2012-07-12T15:38:01Z It may sound like a ludicrous idea, but Quirk has every reason to be confident. George Orwell, Mills and Boon writer: taking literary mashups to the next level 2010-05-21T12:28:00Z As one reader reasonably put it on Amazon.uk’s website: “This book’s pomposity is unbelievable and the sex is ludicrous. Will sell millions.” Review: In ‘Maestra,’ a Heroine’s Routine Includes Sex, Murder and Shopping 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Our last discourse-conquering sex movie, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” was “9 ½ Weeks” recast as a ludicrous girlish romance — an affair that really did feel like a pottery class. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z And while the final, rather ludicrous twist is telegraphed a mile off, it's handled with a pulpy flair that makes it easier to swallow. Liked 'Unknown'? Scarecrow suggests other mistaken identity thrillers 2011-02-17T17:33:06Z Decency prevails in a somewhat ludicrous finale involving an army of children and a train containing a high-ranking officer. ‘Railway Children’ Review: A Nostalgia Trip, With Lessons 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The integration of song and story in “Baby It’s You!” is often on this semi-facetious but still ludicrous level. | 'Baby It?s You!': Girl Group Tale Is Reharmonized 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z All play Dorothy at one point or another, looking cheerfully ludicrous in her signature pigtails and gingham pinafore. Review: In ‘Elements of Oz,’ Smartphones Enhance a Celebration of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Film 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z It is as if they were in a ludicrous souk. Best new artists 2010-10-16T23:02:00Z It was a ludicrous thing to wonder in a trial that taught me how nobody really knows anything about a celebrity’s private life. Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Host David Mitchell often provokes these with his curious commentary, which nestles happily between the ludicrous claims. The Unbelievable Truth | Radio review 2010-03-30T05:45:00Z It was, as a Times Op-Ed said, a “lamentable” decision, and also a ludicrous one. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Will the show's maudlin, tinkling piano chords eventually seem preferable to the ludicrous credits sequence of faux-church paintings set to a swelling orchestra? HBO's The Leftovers: intense, unpredictable, occasionally brilliant 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Pop TV's biggest hit, after all, is "Schitt's Creek," a farce about a wealthy family that lost everything and experiences a ludicrous level of difficulty acclimating to their new state of poverty. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z I hate that it got made, I hate the ludicrous premise that we all hark back to the childhood magic of our lunchboxes. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z In my letter, I held out hope that Stevens, after seeing the ludicrous film, might have softened his stance. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z A Vagrant, which covers, among many other things, 19th century novels, ludicrous superhero costumes, Canadian history, weird Nancy Drew covers and Shetland ponies. Kate Beaton: How to Make It as a Cartoonist 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Michael Grade told Channel 4 News on Tuesday night that he heard rumours about Savile's conduct while he was controller of BBC 1, but said any suggestion of a BBC cover-up was ludicrous. BBC 'horrified' by Jimmy Savile abuse allegations 2012-10-03T07:40:00Z Other conclusions by Stewart were “farcical” and “ludicrous,” Ferrara said. 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z By now, three or four spin-offs were planned, with ever more overpopulated and ludicrous plots. Andrew Garfield: ‘I never compromised who I was’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Somehow my use of the word floccinaucinihilipilification clinched it, while also neatly describing the ludicrous event itself. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z The idea of that the happiest of all possible outcomes is always reconciliation is utterly ludicrous. Meghan Markle's estranged Christmas: Her father's public pity party is familiar to many 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Sniping, gas mains, therapy and problematic sex are pulled into the mix along with the frequent explosions, and everything culminates in a ludicrous, delicious showdown which involves a dead switch, because of course it does. ‘Trigger Point’ Review: Pure Pressure à la ‘Line of Duty’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Bizarrely, Becky never urges Mike to use his lifetime of contacts to corral important guests; nor does she order him to change the ludicrous striped socks he flashes each morning. Morning Glory's Rachel McAdams: When Perky Makes Perfect 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z It would be ludicrous to claim that things have not changed for black people in America. "The Help": A tale of not-so-ancient American history 2011-08-10T00:30:00Z The whole situation began to feel ludicrous to me. My Prague nightmare: I had never even attempted to kill anyone — why was I under arrest in this foreign city? 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z We get that this whole thing is kind of ludicrous. Obama’s last turkey pardon is the dad joke the country needs right now 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Wray's essentially attempting a tightrope-walk between the logical and the ludicrous, a balletic exploration of the meaning of time and memory and consciousness, that embraces both the science and the fantasy of it all. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z And at the heart of that rather ludicrous request is a question of power. White Writer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Directed by Andrew Renzi, this four-part docuseries tells the story of a ludicrous Pepsi campaign involving a pricey fighter jet and a teenage boy who decided to challenge one of the largest corporations in America. What's new on Netflix in November, from "The Crown" and "Blockbuster" to "Wednesday" 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z As a master of competitive bluster, he knows this contest is ludicrous. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The slightest problem and he turns up with an opinion - it's ludicrous. Festival exit plan a 'success' 2012-06-25T17:41:31Z The guide’s anecdotes about life during the Soviet era are both chilling and ludicrous. Tallinn, Estonia - 36 Hours 2012-03-08T18:02:18Z However, Wayne family lawyers say the claims are "ludicrous". Wayne heirs sue over Duke nickname 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Without big characters or memorable set-pieces, it's reduced to a humdrum series of arenas filled with tedious waist-height barriers, and while there's pleasingly ludicrous weaponry to accumulate, it's not enough to stave off overwhelming apathy. Fuse - review 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z As the Russian inquiry melds with the Michael Flynn scandal and the Comey investigation, the ludicrous denials and confusing qualifications keep spewing from the White House. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z It would have been easy to let her slide into ludicrous caricature or salt-of-the-earth heroine, and she never does. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z Gone is the panache, the commitment to his songs that enabled him to pull off the most ludicrous poses; in their place are perfunctory performances and generic posturing. The-Dream: IV Play – review 2013-06-06T21:45:01Z Hopkins knows now that his hubris was ludicrous, but he was anxious to get to the action, and still is. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z “I am looking down at you, at you and yours,” he writes in “What One Must Contend With,” “Your stories and friends, your banal ludicrous dreams.” This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z “When people say he’s not teaching classical ballet, that is just ludicrous,” she said. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Police Department is the sole biggest part of manpower in the city of Chicago, and to say that there are no inefficiencies in there would be ludicrous.” Union: Emanuel police department cuts 'a stunt' 2011-08-31T19:09:00Z But once the surgeon wriggled out of that predicament, the story lost its dramatic tension and fizzled, a victim of preposterous characters with ludicrous motives. Television Review: In ‘Crisis,’ on NBC, Children of Rich and Powerful Are Taken 2014-03-14T22:12:34Z At the same time, I found the idea ludicrous. Modern Love: Healing Sought (Bring Your Own Magic) 2014-05-01T23:12:48Z But claiming grand scientific value in the exercise sits between questionable and ludicrous. First-world hunger: A one-year wait for that big lobby feast? 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z I have a similar issue with sophisticated and/or ludicrous flavour combinations in the vein of Sensations. How to eat: crisps 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Abandoning the vehicle to a predatory bear, he swaggers in ludicrous Western get-up into a frontier town saloon and announces he is Clint Eastwood which, of course, makes nobody’s day very much at all. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z It's ludicrous, of course, to act put upon about a job that requires you to see several films a week and then tell thousands of strangers what you thought about them. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z A beefy Gary Glitter rolled eyes and hips, lip-syncing “Rock and Roll Part 2,” though amusement at his ludicrous prancing is undercut by knowledge of pedophilic crimes that he was sentenced for in 2015. Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Medically speaking, to believe coffee in your rectum could treat anything is ludicrous. Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z So the idea of being successful in Hollywood was ludicrous. Sacha Baron Cohen Plays It Straight in ‘The Spy’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z If there were websites that contained evidence of murder, it would be ludicrous to suggest that they be blocked rather than deleted and all possible efforts made to identify the victims and prosecute the murderers. Pointless action on child pornography | Joe McNamee 2010-03-29T11:30:00Z And in this regard, the Oscars were as endearingly ludicrous as ever. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Then come the punches and neck chops, the bruises and broken glass, the ludicrous wire-fu that allows a matron in a brocade lehenga to fly through the air. ‘Polite Society’ Review: Pride and Plenty of Fists 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Starring Owen and Luke Wilson — dare I mention their Texas roots too? — and co-written with Owen, it was a ludicrous teenage heist gone wrong. Golden Globes 2015: 'Boyhood,' 'Grand Budapest' directors walk alone 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “It’s a ludicrous idea,” said the landscape architect Michael R. Van Valkenburgh. MoMA’s Proposal for Sculpture Garden Pleases and Riles 2014-02-04T22:24:57Z At a time when our ship of state can spin on its rudder at the drop of a tweet, it seems almost ludicrous to predict what’s in store for next year. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z "The fact that our school spent more money on her than Toni Morrison is a little ludicrous," Rehman said. Rutgers pays Snooki more than Nobel winner for talk 2011-04-01T17:35:12Z And operetta allows him to be “completely ludicrous,” as he said. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s very idea of jazz is a grotesque and ludicrous caricature. “Whiplash” Gets Jazz All Wrong 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Caught up by a storm, the honeymooners become pawns in a chess game — at once ludicrous and unrelenting — between Lugosi’s hysteria-prone Hungarian psychiatrist and Karloff’s lisping Austrian architect. In ‘The Black Cat,’ the Titans of Terror, Karloff and Lugosi, Face Off 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z There’s a particularly ludicrous scene in which political opponents confront each other with competing dossiers of compromising photos. Review | Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The two incompetent policemen, near identical twins, named Thompson and Thomson add to the hilarity by repeating each other's sentences, tripping over crooks and wearing ludicrous disguises that dupe no one. Belgians keen to share Hollywood's Tintin with world 2011-12-05T14:55:52Z Is it the ripped physique, the guns, the slinky lady on his arm or the ability to survive even the most ludicrous situations? Clip joint: the slow walk 2010-08-05T11:50:00Z The most outrageous aspect of this midnight-screened hot ticket was finally the sight of Noé himself in a ludicrous grey wig. Cannes 2015, week two report: perfect Pixar but Gus goes gooey 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Instead, I thought about Glee – the musical comedy from Fox that became more tedious and ludicrous as time went on. 11.22.63: Stephen King's series about a time-traveller up against JFK's assassination is a long-haul treat 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z All of this is happening while Carlson promoted Musk's assortment of unsubstantiated assertions ranging from the ludicrous to the outright alarmist. Elon Musk and "Tucker Carlson Tonight": A distracting match made in misinformation paradise 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Ullmann’s hypnotic intensity brought a transfixing gravity to Eva’s accusations, which even extend to faintly ludicrous complaints about enforced haircuts in her girlhood. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z District Court in Santa Ana, Calif. The family considers that contention to be “ludicrous,” the lawsuit says. John Wayne's Heirs Are Suing Duke University for the Right to Make 'Duke' Bourbon 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z But it’s not like the best-picture nominees are bad films; in a clear break with recent Oscar history, there are no ludicrous or embarrassing entries on the list. The Oscars’ death spiral: The academy and Hollywood are locked in a crisis of their own making 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Simultaneously ludicrous and tough, sloppy and hard, vicious and tender – just listen to those soaring, girl-group harmonies – Trash was, along with Jet Boy, the Dolls' big pop move. The 20 best glam-rock songs of all time 2013-02-01T07:00:00Z "Melancholia" demands another viewing or two and some time alone afterwards, something that's ludicrous even to imagine in this hothouse setting. Cannes: Lars von Trier at world's end 2011-05-18T15:19:00Z Alas, to me, and many others, many aspects of “Dark Meadow” are both ponderous and ludicrous. Review: Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham Works at Juilliard Dance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The come-on is everything these days, and the one used by Angel’s Envy isn’t close to the most shameless or ludicrous. The Tipsy Diaries: Celestial Come-Ons and Other Booze-Selling Ploys 2011-01-20T16:28:17Z Be the buffoon they think you are: there’s something very restful about being viewed as little more than a ludicrous, cash-dispensing flesh puppet. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Given how hard the GOP has beaten this drum it's a wonder more Americans don't buy this ludicrous, racist and false idea. "Rich Men" versus the rest of us: A country hit embodies the GOP's narrative 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z There followed a fairly ludicrous selection of garments based on fox-hunting gear worn by models leading leashed beagles. Fashion Review: Designers Anonymous 2011-01-19T22:49:22Z But that doesn't negate the frequently ludicrous nature of Michaels' own life. Don't eulogize Bret Michaels yet 2010-04-26T16:12:00Z Anyone who has even marginal contact with the black community already knows how ludicrous that is. “Chi-Raq”: Spike Lee’s blistering, outrageous satirical assault on a society consumed by violence 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Facebook’s representatives deny many of her charges, calling some of them ludicrous. Perspective | Facebook is harming our society. Here’s a radical solution for reining it in. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But to me “Cats” is proof of the ludicrous heights that can be reached with full-throated commitment. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Not long afterwards – the universe is ludicrous – I received an invitation to judge the 2017 Man Booker prize. A new start: Sarah Hall on trauma and the unexpected tonic of extreme reading 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Ms. Carey is trying to be something more with this holiday version of herself: transcendent, ludicrous, fun. Mariah Carey’s List Is Short: All She Wants Is Immortality 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The ethical point of view has its inspirational and novelty value, but the aesthetic POV — the pretense that most of what we see is “found footage” — borders on the ludicrous. End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue 2012-09-21T15:31:53Z The body counts can be "completely ludicrous", and these bogeymen "let us off the hook, when in reality a killer like Fred West is next door," argued Billingham. The truth about crime fiction 2013-01-26T09:00:51Z The guy can’t even afford a secretary, so he affects a ludicrous British accent when he takes a calls on his cellphone. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: In the Premiere, Plenty Of Nods to 'Breaking Bad' 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Leicester's mayor the "ludicrous" cost of building and running the venue, but it may be starting to pay off after winning over Weinstein. Weinstein goes back to Neverland 2012-09-14T05:24:13Z They may lurch into the ludicrous, but with surprising earnestness these films nonetheless play out a three-way philosophical debate: between enlightened rationalism, orthodox Christianity and renewed paganism. Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z There’s something frightening — if not a little ludicrous — about a plot of such intricacy. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The wacky tune, which frequently accompanies the protagonist's ludicrous escapades, is now a stand-in soundtrack for clownery and tomfoolery. Hugh Grant trolls Boris Johnson’s resignation with wacky "Benny Hill" theme song 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The necklace that she is given by the aristocrat Bathilde descends below her hips; it’s ludicrous to think that it has been worn while hunting. Dance Review: Bolshoi’s ‘Giselle,’ Geared to Virtuosity and a Vocal Audience 2014-04-06T21:59:32Z “I can’t reconcile myself with showing the Games. I think it would be ludicrous and ridiculous and offensive.” Noted: Citing Discrimination, Some Gays and Lesbians Call for Boycott of Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014-01-31T21:21:10Z The film’s second half tracks Burns’s evasion of his pursuers and his encounter with a nemesis both inevitable and ludicrous. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z He denounced reports of the criticism as “absolutely ludicrous” and “nonsense”. Finland disputes Scotland's baby box claims after expert warning 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Earn is still messy, enabling Alfred to play the part of a star whose demands have gotten ever more ludicrous; at one point he orders Earn to procure him an unspeakable amount of fried chicken. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z When the supposed commander in chief whines that he's the subject of a witch hunt, it's ludicrous not just because that's not how governing works. Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z It is ludicrous to suggest that Kitaj was just this arrogant figure. RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge 2013-02-10T06:00:01Z The emotions are prefabricated, the drama is false and the situation itself is ludicrous, as even Amalric seemly admitted in an interview this week in The Hollywood Reporter. Early Cannes films are the polar opposite 2010-05-14T05:26:00Z The concept of prepping meals for the week was a ludicrous affront to our lifestyle. Crying in H Mart 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Dagenfield, in the smaller of his two roles, proves an audience favorite as he shuffles at tortoise speed, Tim Conway style, when sent on the ludicrous task of circling the seven hills of Rome. Stephen Sondheim, experimenter. Listen to 'Pacific Overtures' and 'Forum' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z That community goes well beyond government–it’s friends, neighbors, businesses–but Parks doesn’t hesitate to say that government, however imperfect and ludicrous, is another aspect of community, not an outside force imposed on legitimate community. Knope and Change: The Politics of Parks and Recreation 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a reporter in North Korea that it was “insulting and ridiculous and ludicrous” for him to be asked about details of the verification process for the vaunted denuclearization. Perspective | Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Which wouldn’t matter except that, to anyone in publishing, the idea of plugging so many gaping factual holes in so little time seems ludicrous. Review: A Three-Way Smackdown Over ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The idea of "guilty pleasure" is ludicrous, unless you're getting your kicks by burning down orphanages. Q&A: Stephen Mangan 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The director took what I considered to be a very wrong turn in his futuristic 2016 romance “Equals,” set in a ludicrous society in which Love Is Forbidden. A Robot Romance on Amazon, American Indies and a ‘Taxi Driver’ Commentary 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z A year after MH370's disappearance, more ludicrous conspiracy theories surrounding the plane cropped up across social media. “MH370”: The 6 most shocking theories surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z It’s Tarantino’s violence, his gore, his taste for folksy mayhem and liberal doses of buckshot and the n-word that’s exaggerated here and made ludicrous. “Djesus Uncrossed,” Grievance, and How Satire Actually Works 2013-02-19T22:42:23Z This is Chabon at his magical best, stitching his grandfather into the fabric of the 20th century in a way that seems either ludicrous or plausible depending on how the light hits. Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “I thought, I’m 59 now. Is it too ludicrous to suddenly be this guy completely from the other side of the tracks with a full-on London accent? Guy said ‘No, no, no, no. With strong accent, Hugh Grant 'went for it' in Ritchie's 'The Gentlemen' 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s also one of the most successful franchises in the business, selling over three hundred and fifty million copies worldwide—which is a ludicrous, almost obscene, number. The “Goosebumps” Conundrum: What Makes a Children’s Book Good? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z What they want is something scandalous, filled with dramatic twists and ludicrous games that make a spectacular mockery of the things people do for love and money. The end of UnREAL: why it's time to say goodbye to TV's darkest comedy 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In six months, we’d see him in the winter training sequence from “Rocky IV,” performing the most ludicrous feat of physical labor ever filmed. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z So I sometimes skip the cheese in the dressing and instead just adorn the top of the salad with an absolutely ludicrous amount of cheese. Caesar is the comfort food of salads 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy succeeds frequently in bringing his character to full, angry, textured life, but after two-and-a-half hours he is finally brought down by ludicrous dialogue and plot developments. ‘Extreme Whether’ Offers a Different Slant on Climate 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z If you knew me at all, that would sound like the most ludicrous and far-fetched solution possible. He liked to mow his own lawn. Until the ‘helpful’ neighbor came along It is an impressive spectacle if a rather ludicrous work of art. Art Review: Frieze New York at Randalls Island 2013-05-10T21:45:01Z It’s ludicrous to assume we can realistically address one without honestly confronting the other. In movies, violence against women lets filmmakers indulge toxic fantasies The prospect of grieving over a break-up from within a marriage to a third – innocent – person is too painful to contemplate and too ludicrous to allow. The man I’m not going to have an affair with 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Likewise the crisis, such as it is, is resolved with a ludicrous technological trick. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The existence of the Longhorn Network is ludicrous. 5 Scandal-Free Story Lines for the College-Football Season 2011-09-02T09:00:00Z Brydon chipped in: “I would never in a million years sit at a dinner doing impersonations, arguing over the merits of Wales v the North. It’s ludicrous.” Steve Coogan: 'The Trip is Last of the Summer Wine for Guardian readers' 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z While giving the power of planning your wedding to complete strangers may appear ludicrous to some, Glantz said what matters most are the two people saying “I do.” Bride asks the internet to plan her entire wedding 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Damon Lindelof’s screenplay took great pleasure in setting up intriguing – if mostly completely ludicrous – scenarios, then steadfastly refusing to resolve them, leaving most of us, if not outraged, certainly pretty bemused. From Spider-Man to Alien: why does Hollywood keep spoiling its movies? 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Black comedy makes outwardly ludicrous plot twists feel hilarious, organic and necessary. Walter White has to laugh, otherwise he'd cry 2011-09-26T07:27:00Z “It just seems ridiculous — it’s a ludicrous way to judge anybody.” Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Much of “The Paperboy” may be a borderline ludicrous mess. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z Those women are not dangerous and to make the argument that they pose some kind of dire threat to society…it’s ludicrous to me. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Sovremennik seems to promise something more hopeful than either gimcrack Muscovite capitalism or equally ludicrous Soviet socialism. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z It’s a plot twist that would be brilliant, if it weren’t so ludicrous. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Please, Hurry Up and Kill the Bird 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Russell narrates in gruff, ludicrous noir style, describing his life before the alien invasion as a prelapsarian time "before war even existed as an idea". Game on: Inversion – preview 2012-07-05T21:01:01Z Did you worry that there would be ludicrous aspects to the show that the audience wouldn’t believe was historically accurate even though they were? Another Period Shows How Historical Millionaires Were Just Like Reality Stars 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Hinckley's ludicrous attempt indicates that story's decline, with Reagan, a president who had been a Hollywood actor shot simply to impress an actress. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z Its opening words – “I hate labels” – reflect Hunter’s discomfort with an industry hellbent on typecasting him as the Sigh Guy, the Boy Next Door and “the even more ludicrous Swoon Bait”. Tab Hunter: how Hollywood's boy next door became a gay icon 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Audience members know the material so well because half the humor comes from merely reproducing every ludicrous plot twist and trope from the television show. Theater Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z His ludicrous show trial ended the only way it could have in a courtroom with the word “revolutionary” in its name — with a conviction for crimes that made no sense. Jason Rezaian Recounts His 544 Days of Captivity in Iran 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z "They once parodied the ludicrous," wrote the journalist turned broadcaster of the celebrated sketch comedians . Monty Python confirms five more dates 2013-11-27T16:00:27Z “I don’t think I quite understood him then. I just knew that he was getting at something ludicrous about life,” Ms. Devers said. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In their first collaboration, the 2011 “Tool Is Loot,” this poem allowed Mr. Cardona to find tenderness in the potentially ludicrous, and, in the “The Set Up,” it again brings redemption in unlikeliness. Review: A Poetic, Postmodern Spin on an Old Art Form 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Another in 1978 defended the regime of Cambodian communist leader Pol Pot, and labeled the Times’s own reporting about genocide in the southeast Asian country “a lie,” “ludicrous” and a “myth.” How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The musical in question, "Rogers," is a ludicrous ode to Captain America highlighted by the 2012 intergalactic invasion that the Avengers thwarted. "Hawkeye" reminds us why Jeremy Renner's archer is the least Avenger 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z We used to enjoy the familial camaraderie, but it now seems ludicrous to me, when most of these questions are no longer relevant. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mention of fishing trip puts relationship in rough waters 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z People are fragile and can be hurt and we do not want to hurt them if we can help it, even if their vulnerabilities seem ludicrous to us. Small minds crimp my style 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z But animal archetypes are not arbitrary; fables can become ludicrous if they mismatch temperament and creature. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z To call these musicals improbable hits is an almost ludicrous understatement. Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Even when ludicrous, they are studies in narrative efficiency. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But though lyrics asking to be healed and describing an ascent of Jacob's ladder might seem ludicrous on paper, Ashcroft's self-belief and charisma makes some of them sound compelling. RPA and the United Nations of Sound 2010-06-16T20:29:00Z Like Buzz in the first film, he genuinely does not believe himself to be a plaything and finds the notion patently ludicrous. The beautiful bleakness of the "Toy Story" movies 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z The 1929 version of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, was reportedly adorned with the ludicrous: “By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor.” Chance the Rapper was The Lion King's 'nostalgia consultant'. That's not the oddest movie credit 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Members of The Family revered Moore, referring to him as their "Father" and "God," and did whatever he said, no matter how ludicrous the request was. The 6 most disturbing "The Most Hated Man on the Internet" revelations from Netflix's docuseries 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Despite its ludicrous premise, he does a fine and fearless job of selling his character’s varied personae. From Split to Psycho: why cinema fails dissociative identity disorder 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z To me, the ending of “The OA” was ludicrous and cheaply provocative; some folks wired differently may find it haunting and profound. Review: The Cryptic Sparkles in ‘The OA.’ Reality Disappoints. 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z After a blogger said it seemed ludicrous that a woman who looked like Schumer could attract so many men, she took to Twitter to post a picture of herself in lingerie. Amy Schumer still surprised Judd Apatow cast her in her own movie 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z And she also captures Thea’s accelerating crush on Henry Holmes, the married headmaster of Yonahlossee — a crush she knows is ludicrous, and yet at the same time suspects might, somehow, be reciprocated. Books of The Times: ‘The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls,’ by Anton DiSclafani 2013-06-03T21:16:33Z Likewise, calls for him to be replaced are ludicrous. without Dimbleby would be like Coronation Street without the cobbles. Idolising bad boys makes Charlies of us all 2011-02-20T00:06:25Z "Those guys have been standing there trying to do their job forever, while you all attempt to prove God is alive and going to perform some ludicrous miracle because it's what you want to happen." "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" helped me reconsider my painful Evangelical childhood 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z It was complicated and damaging, but also ludicrous. A mother's vanishing: A secret that haunted my family for generations, hiding in plain sight 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z One of Farrell’s tracksuits — a resplendent tartan — is a thing of ludicrous beauty, as is his performance. ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys, Sometimes With Guns 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The great novelist touched her dress and “exclaimed with ludicrous horror: ‘Crinoline? Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z What he said was so ludicrous that it calmed me down. My Surprising Duet With Arthur Mitchell in Cold War Moscow 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z And then, in episode three, something ludicrous happened. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z “She’s a tornado, just leaving a trail of broken bodies behind her,” says her ex-husband, who sees right through Don’s ludicrous “fridge full of beer” story. 'Mad Men' recap: Goodbye to Shangri-La 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Seen now, the picture is ludicrous, pointless, and stirring all at once. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He was also faintly ludicrous, a sultry male Marilyn Monroe, pouting and puckering as he gazed at his own imagined reflection with lowered eyes. | 'When You?re Strange': Documentary Recalls the Fire of Jim Morrison 2010-04-09T00:08:00Z On the other hand, the book business isn’t exactly thrilling, and efforts to gin up the sort of tension required to fuel a good suspense novel tend to lead to ludicrous excesses. VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Bring $160 in cash to buy an entry visa at the airport; actually, bring plenty of cash, since A.T.M. machines charge ludicrous fees and changing money is easy. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Paraguay’s Capital, Small-Scale Charms 2013-04-17T14:21:28Z Before that technology existed, the idea that you would willingly send your credit card number through the electronic ether to a total stranger seemed ludicrous. "Middle Men": Heroes of the Internet-porn revolution 2010-08-05T15:01:00Z But at this age, his first “erotic dream” becomes ludicrous, especially when it is represented by commonplace prim operatic ballet. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But if this period piece is ludicrous, it's also magnificent. F&M playlist 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z It was justified as legal punishment for a ludicrous non-crime handed down by a kangaroo court, staffed by members of one good-old-boy network after another. A leap for women’s rights: The Texas abortion case and the end of reproductive Jim Crow laws 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z It wasn’t even the ludicrous spectacle of a hyper-militarized police response. It’s not just the South and Fox News: Liberals have a white privilege problem too 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Someone probably had to explain to him that there’s no worldwide tournament for American football because it’s a ludicrous and violent sport played in no other major nations. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The song, simply titled "Hood," discovers so much new ground that the idea of legal action is ludicrous. 'Blurred Lines' verdict: In jazz, the vibe is everything 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But the idea that there might be something more to acting – that acting might be a creative art – is ludicrous to him. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z If we turn around and apply the same principle and means to each other, it's ludicrous – as brother Mike Tyson would say– ridiculous. Cancel culture is emulated from “an ethic of white supremacy,” says Jay-Z scholar 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Or we would be if the reason for this epiphany weren't so ludicrous. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z He observes, “That was a ludicrous fantasy for a law-abiding blackjack professional in the age of Al Qaeda — my dreams were September 10 dreams.” Books of The Times: Casino Crazy in Josh Axelrad?s ?Repeat Until Rich? 2010-03-30T23:21:00Z “Our solution to truly addressing a ludicrous situation in D.C. was with some ludicrous plotting.” In TV’s ‘BrainDead,’ bugs eat the brains of D.C. politicians. (It’s a metaphor.) 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z One secret of Bush’s artistry is that she has never feared the ludicrous—she tries things that other musicians would be too careful or cool to go near. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z At City Ballet, most ludicrous of all, he is an old-style operatic devil in a cloak lined with flaming orange. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z That it’s ludicrous is forgivable; that it’s boring is not. Review: Justin Cronin’s long-awaited ‘City of Mirrors’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, it doesn't strike the type of harmonic balance that, say, the show's humor achieves by equalizing the arch and the ludicrous with empathy for its characters. "Only Murders in the Building" returns with an invitation to the familliar 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The idea is simply ludicrous and an offense to the basic idea of Constitutional Democracy. Hot Links and Red Drinks: The Rich Food Tradition of Juneteenth 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z A gothic horror yarn in which a man surgically merges another man with a walrus, it also takes a long, ludicrous digression into comedy with a surprise cameo by an outsized star. Crop of 'New Dangerous' filmmakers take edgy to new levels 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z As My Coo Ca Choo sees him spraying champagne over gyrating fans well past retirement age, Stardust's career seems as wonderfully ludicrous as ever. Alvin Stardust 2010-05-17T21:00:00Z There you are, enjoying a happy childhood, when your body suddenly decides to inflict on you the ludicrous indignity of menstruation. Wife/mother/worker/spy: Fast Forward to Old Age, Please 2010-03-02T16:45:00Z Even all these months after her Princeton op-ed, she continues to exploit our morbid curiosity about what ludicrous words will escape her mouth next. Princeton Mom is out of control: How Susan Patton turned one crazy op-ed column into a mini-empire 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Now, though still funny, it’s no longer ludicrous but moving. What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z There is this ludicrous notion that we are not responsible for our ancestors or what comes next in terms of cleaning up that history and its damages, the oppression. Eve Ensler on Donald Trump, rape culture and the "unreckoned history" of America 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z In TV, the moment when a hit series gets desperate and either does something ludicrous or reworks old episodes is called “jumping the shark.” Paranormal Activity 4: Jumping the Shock? 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z Even though such ludicrous appropriations are authentic to the setting, a musical comedy need not be a documentary. Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In a Scottish newspaper, A Partisan's Daughter was described as 'loathsome and ludicrous'. The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z When Lamendin arrives at a large bank with his ludicrous prospectus, the chief financier dismisses him, but not before offering some encouragement. ‘Donogoo,’ a 1930 Farce About a Financial Scheme 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But the idea that you could separate the art from the life, a conceptually and practically incoherent notion in any case, is as ludicrous for him as it is for Louis C.K. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z But I still didn’t expect to be as horrified by his ludicrous words as I was. Keep your guns out of my school! 2012-12-21T19:54:00Z That’s about the rate at which this surprisingly long, wildly ambitious, thoroughly ludicrous crime thriller delivers its own big scores. Review: In ‘Den of Thieves,’ Gerard Butler Trails a Former Marine 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The ludicrous negotiation between Kitty and Kurt threatens to turn “Vicuña” into a political farce every bit as topsy-turvy as David Mamet’s “November.” Looking for the lighter side to a nasty election? Playwright Jon Robin Baitz delivers it in 'Vicuña' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “Serenity” is, instead, full of ludicrous trivializations that bypass the story’s troubling implications. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z At a rally Thursday, Trump again denied the women’s claims, which he said were “preposterous, ludicrous and defy logic.” A Trump libel suit against the Times? Don’t count on it succeeding. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The contrast between the diners and the server is ludicrous, obscene, nearly impossible for our brains to synthesize for its dissonance. I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z He is already a household name thanks to his brave, sometimes ludicrous performances. Artist of the week special: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Annette Kelm, Jonathan Meese 2011-03-16T18:25:57Z It was a ludicrous claim, but it could gain purchase because the only witnesses to the speech were campaign insiders and journalists. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z And sure, it's also ludicrous: How do you decide whether a documentary about schoolchildren in Harlem is better or worse than "Hot Tub Time Machine"? The Movie List 2010-09-30T01:01:00Z That is the self-obsessed television impresario named Garrett, who dangles petty threats and delights in creating story lines that are increasingly ludicrous. Another Film Bites a Hand In Hollywood 2011-01-12T23:00:25Z And because Mittenhofer’s behavior is often just as ludicrous, “Elegy for Young Lovers” has a comic undercurrent that interacts with the tragedy he deliberately sets in motion. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z Let’s just say that if it weren’t for the play’s ludicrous reversals and recurrent eddies of argument, it would last about 10 minutes instead of 85. Review: Bullies and Victims Face Off in ‘After.’ But Who’s Who? 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Richard Wilson, one of the show’s executive producers, said he saw Johnson, straw-haired and spouting arcane references, on a news show one night, thought, “He’s a slightly ludicrous figure,” and decided to book him. A Show That Laughs at Boris Johnson, and May Have Aided His Rise 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a ludicrous claim: She can’t read or write or “even win at backgammon,” let alone carry out witchcraft. 15 New Books Coming in June 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z These are just a few of the many questions raised by the ludicrous backstory used in "National Treasure" — but, in a way, the absurdity of the concept works to the film's favor. Nic Cage's 4th of July classic 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z I don’t know if the filmmaker meant this ludicrous analogy as a joke, but having Ridgeman fatally undone by his racist instincts is the sort of sledgehammer irony Zahler enjoys. A Director Who Is Old School With a Vengeance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He finds the premise of her famous first sentence to be ludicrous. Books of The Times: ‘A Wilderness of Error,’ by Errol Morris, on the MacDonald Trial 2012-09-10T23:33:39Z We constantly pretend our perception of the present day will not seem ludicrous in retrospect, simply because there doesn’t appear to be any other option. Moby Dick and gravity: how our understanding of truth evolves 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z "The ludicrous thing is, Ed is nearly always right – he's just an impossible person," he says of the character. Radio hit Ed Reardon makes stage debut in Edinburgh 2011-08-09T15:51:09Z If she’s a ludicrous person, so are a great many of her countrymen and countrywomen, and her story also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory. Pick of the week: The beauty queen and the time-share tycoon 2012-07-06T00:10:00Z The Public Lab production of this borderline ludicrous but sometimes, um, delicious play, directed by Michael Sexton, adorns the opening in a little apt classical allusion. | 'Titus Andronicus': ?Titus Andronicus? at Public Lab - Review 2011-12-14T03:01:00Z The selfishness charge against non-parents is ludicrous and mean, as I’ve acknowledged many times, but the impulse to see a valid complaint about the treatment of children as an opening to complain about parents? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Well, they started it! Let’s not get childish about children. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z But the result is a ludicrous exercise in script contrivance, unlikable characters, silly acting and affected emotion. 'Twelve': Rich kids, drugs and a downer of a melodrama 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z She summarizes the ludicrous powers attributed to her — “to pass through locked doors, to be the death of sheep, goats, cows, infants, and grapevines” — and then scoffs, “I can’t even win at backgammon.” Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Here was a classic Golden Age puzzle — Ellery Queen’s first case, in fact — and virtually all the characters were caricatures, the dialogue was stilted and corny, and the elaborate plot verged on the ludicrous. Review | Stilted dialogue, a ludicrous plot: On the pleasures of the vintage whodunit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z ‘TONI ERDMANN’ The filmmaker Maren Ade’s latest is a perfectly directed and performed movie about a father, his daughter and the ludicrous gag teeth that help close this pair’s generational, economic and social divide. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z In the first, a ludicrous play about the Spanish Armada descends into chaos; in the second, two critics get caught up in a Christie-style whodunit. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z I still love the Oscars, in all their ludicrous, self-regarding glory. At last, an Oscar for popular film. Because who needs another The Shape Of Water? | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Complete with a ludicrous premise, Boston-centric sports gags, random washed-up celebrity cameos, spoofs of several different kinds of more serious movies, an irrelevant third-act action sequence and a sentimental resolution? Pick of the week: Mark Wahlberg and his foulmouthed teddy bear 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z So where you see ludicrous requests, I see unfortunately phrased versions of “Please understand me.” Don’t be insincere. Do be empathetic. 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Given Kellogg's haphazard philosophies, it's little wonder his inventions were a mixture of useful and ludicrous. 11 of John Harvey Kellogg's strangest inventions 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z Clive Owen’s beleaguered doctor on The Knick should get some attention if only for maintaining that ludicrous moustache for 10 straight episodes. Emmys 2015: the TV shows that should be nominated on Thursday 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Here they take a similarly irreverent approach to politics, spotlighting hypocrisy, corruption and incompetence in government while also taking joy in purely ludicrous moments like Rudy Giuliani’s melting face. 8 Podcasts to Help Make Sense of Post-Trump America 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In many ways TV is smarter than ever and in many ways it’s more ludicrous than ever–often at the same time. "This Show Is Insane!" And That Means It's Working. 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Those poor viewers willing to take on this Freudian tale and its dialogue rivaling “The Room” must brave a ludicrous slog for crumbs. ‘The Lost Girls’ Review: Wendy’s Telling of Peter Pan 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Conceived and directed by Philippe Decouflé, the production pays lavish, if often ludicrous, homage to the “Golden Age” of Hollywood, the vague era when it is set, and features a star-is-born plot reeking of mothballs. Review: ‘Paramour’ Brings Cirque du Soleil to Broadway 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z But children were long instructed to respect age and refrain from talking back, no matter how ludicrous their elders’ behavior. It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The tales are eventually intertwined at a London book fair in a way many will find ludicrous and others be swept away by. Hereafter ? review 2011-01-30T00:06:03Z The Globe undertakes its first large-scale tour with Christopher Luscombe's very enjoyable 2008 production with Christopher Benjamin playing the heroically ludicrous Falstaff. This week's new theatre 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z “Is it a self-conscious and ludicrous performance of guilt?” he muses. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Pair with a book: Philip Greene’s book To Have and Have Another goes into a ludicrous amount of detail about Hemingway’s drinking habits and the drinks that appeared in his writing. Love cocktails? Here are five bottles your liquor cabinet can't do without 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z It's not ludicrous that Catholics believe in the priesthood, right to life and all the other things you believe are silly. Review: ‘Bathing in Moonlight’ Tests a Priest and Boundaries 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z On top of that, this just seems like a ludicrous waste of money particularly in the week when the new prime minister is warning everyone about future budget cuts. Brighton council apologises to Status Quo over 'insulting' advert 2010-06-11T08:49:00Z Reprising the 20-year-old Brass Eye format of duping public figures with ludicrous political campaigns might not be exciting, but the surprise scheduling was. 'No-warning TV': why are surprise releases becoming so popular? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “The notion that it was some sort of long-term conspiracy to destroy Bill Clinton is ludicrous,” he said. George Conway is the man at the center of everything 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Political Animals, an inconsistent, sometimes ludicrous, but also juicily fun political soap, is about something that ultimately makes for better TV: the idea of Hillary Clinton. Sexts from “Hillary”: Political Animals’ Bawdy Alternative History 2012-07-12T12:25:31Z Barely a page goes by without a splendidly ludicrous pun. Jilly Cooper: Queen of the bonkbuster 2010-08-09T14:22:00Z "Biutiful" is so, um, beautiful and also so ludicrous -- as one friend of mine observed after we saw it in Cannes, as a treatment it wouldn't make any sense at all. Great Oscar debate: Why was Franco nominated? 2011-02-24T21:20:00Z The irony is she was opening for us that night, which remains a source of embarrassment for me because it shows you how ludicrous the music industry is. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z Still, it was a “no-brainer” to look to Trump for Buddy Kane, Gallagher’s ludicrous character in American Beauty: “I thought, who has the hugest opinion of themselves in real estate?” Peter Gallagher: 'One of the most toxic things in the world is success' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z In the intimacy of its one-ring tent, it has offered a extravaganza that is exciting, not overblown, with acts that are inspiring, not ludicrous, at a volume that is cheerful, not earsplitting. Review: The Big Apple Circus Is Ripe for Another Bite 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “GREAT STUFF!” bellows this lovably ludicrous 62-year-old as he hands me the garment. The Hoff: 'The good thing with panto is, when you say no, they up the price!' 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The occasionally ludicrous lengths to which characters go to achieve their aims are no more ludicrous, says Macfadyen, than real life. 'I didn’t want to do an ITV drama': Matthew Macfadyen on making it big in the US 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Dakota Johnson in particular deserves a parade through the center of town for somehow carrying this ludicrous material on her shoulders and making it as watchable as it is. The seven most wonderfully ridiculous moments in Fifty Shades Darker 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z At the start of The Intouchables, each man seems strange, alien, ludicrous to the other; the two must collide before they connect. The Intouchables: France's Biggest Hit Dares You to Resist Its Charms 2012-05-24T14:23:28Z The theorists themselves narrate, and Ascher, who did his own editing, creates a vortex-like atmosphere that makes it hard not to get hooked on what they’re saying, no matter how ludicrous. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Stewart asked, though it was more or a rhetorical comment about how ludicrous sexism is. Kirsten Gillibrand’s interview with Jon Stewart is inspiring and refreshing 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z After all, Mr. Pynchon’s novels have a reputation for difficulty, but they are jam-packed with lowbrow references and gags, dirty jokes, goofy song lyrics, shameless puns, ludicrous anagrams and absurd acronyms. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Initially Frank’s attempts to right the world’s wrongs using only his fists and ungainly body are ludicrous, foolhardy exercises that end in cuts and bruises at the hands of stronger and more ruthless foes. | 'Super': You Don?t Need Superpowers if You Have a Pipe Wrench (and Anger Issues) 2011-03-31T23:05:03Z The plays were freighted with sadness, cruelty and regret – but made sparkling and joyous by Walsh's heartstopping verbal acrobatics and often ludicrous wit. Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination' 2010-08-10T21:00:00Z It’s all a bit too ludicrous to be sensuous or unsettling, or ultimately all that insightful. ‘The Wild Boys’ Review: Women as Boys, and Violence as Art 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But you know Divine's playing both roles… it's always so ludicrous. John Waters: 'I wanted to be the filthiest person alive' 2013-11-06T01:34:07Z Television is awash in competition shows that force contestants to take on ludicrous challenges: Marry a stranger; throw a clay vessel on the wheel, blindfolded; cook a three-course meal in 10 minutes. Sarah Sze and the Art of Tracking Time 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Emond is a Broadway actress, and it’s a measure of her commitment that she almost sells this ludicrous character, who at one point hides a gun under a stylish sun hat. Review: In ‘The Land,’ Fast Money Brings Friends Deep Trouble 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Certainly top collectors dominate the calendar, stir up the selling floor and preside over what are sometimes ludicrous displays of privilege. Art Review: Art Basel Miami Beach - Review 2011-12-03T00:25:04Z Like all truly ludicrous people, Henry has no self-pity and no sense of his own silliness. "The Extra Man": Kevin Kline's magnificent oddness 2010-07-28T00:30:00Z I thought it was self-indulgent and faintly ludicrous in its depiction of emotional fragility for 150 pages. What are you reading today? 2013-05-01T14:49:40Z Santos has produced so much ludicrous theater for news cameras that, in the hands of a probative interviewer with minimal fact-checking ability, some quality wild weirdness could have been mined from the situation. Why Meghan McCain continues to flail 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z This ludicrous idea – Murphy quickly came to find it ludicrous – apparently got as far as the Irishman being urged into a bat costume. Cillian Murphy: ‘Is this it, for the rest of my days?’ 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z "It is absolutely ludicrous to claim that a powerful euphoria-inducing drug like ketamine is going to be a long-term or a short-term method for controlling clinical depression," he said. Health experts attack ketamine plan to tackle depression 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z In classical music, birthday celebrations and other anniversary observances sometimes seem strained, even ludicrous, marketing ploys. 9/11 Memorial Concerts, Mostly Low-Key 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The dialogue is empty-headed, the visuals crudely exploitative and the plot — about two college friends who rent a swanky, suspiciously affordable apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side — so ludicrous as to be well nigh incoherent. ‘The Scary of Sixty-First’ Review: Resident Evil 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z There’s much to appreciate in Conrad’s mastery of building tension toward ludicrous outcomes in some case, or punctuating stretches of relative calm with explosions of chaos and violence. A spy like us: Amazon’s “Patriot” is the screw-up’s answer to TV’s super-agents 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The Net Somewhere between ludicrous and ludicrously sublime, "The Net" features Sandra Bullock as the first-ever movie character to have her identity hacked on the Internet. Pervs and thieves on the Internet: A Hollywood history 2011-03-29T22:30:00Z But it’s in the ludicrous whatnot that the glory of James Bond lies—in the glorious bombast, the mixture of the clever and the idiotic, the willingness to say or do something deeply silly. Sam Smith’s Song Breaks the Bond Rules 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z At first, the notion they would buy a house here seems farfetched, even ludicrous. Pa. town engulfed by rumors about Beyonce, Jay-Z 2010-04-30T23:16:00Z It’s a ludicrous film, shot in apartheid South Africa, its hero and love interest not in the first flush of youth. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z It was a commercial disaster - The Washington Post called it "ludicrous" - and it never gained a general release. Rocky Horror sequel set for London 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z “It has a lot of frustration and anger but also hilarity and ludicrous aspects.” Mourning in America: A new Internet way of remembering the long-departed Painting landscapes of grotesque fantasy surrealism, it was probably inevitable that the sequels and spin-offs to 1982’s A Nightmare on Elm Street became increasingly ludicrous and special effects-heavy. Wes Craven: professional scaremonger who rewrote the horror film rules 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z It was a ludicrous overreaction, soon undone, but the brutality of it, witnessed by all, cast a pall over the solemn performance. Can a sleepy Chinese town become a cultural mecca? 2013-06-08T23:00:00Z However, royal historian Hugo Vickers has penned a book “The Crown: Truth & Fiction”, to expose the fiction, saying the show features ludicrous events, misrepresents characters and includes some “idiotic scenes”. 'The Crown' peddles subversive republican message, says royal historian 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Even if their beliefs seem ludicrous to us. Small minds crimp my style 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z The Turkish physician would seem a ludicrous candidate for the leading role in this treacherous drama. Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z If these levels of live-caller dread sound ludicrous to you, congratulations. Calling out of the blue: Why would you do this to someone you love? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Unabashedly ludicrous; worth reading for the apartment description alone. In Praise of the ‘Career Romance’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “The masquerade of the African in the guise of a politician able to take over the running of a modern state . . . has nowhere been demonstrated in a more ludicrous light than in Zambia,” he wrote. The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z In mediocre, lazy, or just plain bad productions, that can mean shoring up opera's ludicrous star system, the egos of its divas, divos, and maestros, and Thicknesse's culture of red-velvet snobbery. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z But it still offers a few impressively ludicrous toys and gadgets for the moneyed and clueless, foremost among them being the chance to possess the world’s most expensive piggy bank: your own personal Zoltar. From Oprah to Goop, these crazy gift guide suggestions caught Salon's imagination 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Australian filmmakers are particularly good at low-budget genre, perhaps because they often make up for their limited funds with a brash irreverence, dark humor and affinity for ludicrous violence. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The tone here is set by showboating speeches, machine-gun pop-culture references and a snaking plot that stays just the right side of ludicrous. All hail Billions – the smartest stupid show on TV 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Lee, ludicrous in a henna wig and power suit, is the clown, but the jokes are mostly on the women who have the corner office but got it the old-fashioned way, on their backs. The TV Watch: ?Are You There, Chelsea?? Enters Female Sitcom Fray 2012-01-10T21:08:56Z It has all the twists and ludicrous turns of any self respecting soap opera, and all we'd need is our fifteen minute fix to catch up on the characters. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The plan gets a bit ludicrous, though, with their decision to include an enormous jungle gym featuring slides adjacent to the stadium seats. A theater chain wants to add jungle gyms to movie screens. It's a bad idea 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The idea of children not yet old enough to read or tie their shoes fending off an assault rifle with cartons of milk is ludicrous, yet that's the plan. Training children to attack school shooters is victim-blaming cowardice 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Which is to say, a congeries of ideologies mandating, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, belief in fantastic, often ludicrous, unverifiable assertions about the cosmos and mankind’s place in it. They’re all just this deluded and deranged: Anti-intellectual religious wing-nuts run the GOP 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z I watched the first episode and I thought to myself, “This is completely ludicrous.” In Hawaii, the Search for Sustainable Tourism 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z My intention was to dispel the ludicrous notion that there is a single, fixed Muslim female identity. Is France right to ban the burka in public? | Debate 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z But you'd only be partially correct since the turn emulsifies the supernatural into the ludicrous. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z After 10 years, that's either because it's so ludicrous, it's beyond parody, or because it's so brilliant, even gentle mockery would appear unnecessarily spiteful. Spooks final series: time for a glorious death? 2011-08-11T13:29:34Z Charles Edwards's Sir Andrew Aguecheek is puppyish, precise in every last twinge of ludicrous excess," says Henry Hitchings in the London Evening Standard, "while Simon Callow revels in the role of Sir Toby Belch. What to say about ... Twelfth Night 2011-01-20T17:11:23Z He and his friends—notably, his smart and earnest girlfriend, Eve—stumble upon a murder, and in the process, they cross paths with two ludicrous police officers who are leading the investigation. Which Movies to See in January 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Bee’s searing political analysis adds quotable sensibility to the ludicrous cacophony blaring back to us from the campaign trail. TV to soothe election panic: “The Contenders” offers historical perspective, “The Bunker” gently skewers the process 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z From there, the story emboldens itself from relatable online stalking to ludicrous plot twists, both of which Reid parries with confidence. ‘Missing’ Review: Mom’s Lost in the Matrix 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Soon enough the exchanges between the couple go from serious to ludicrous. 'Two Night Stand' a one-act sex comedy that grows cold too soon 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Once Erik is turned into a vampire — and an irresistible sex machine — the ludicrous action turns into a kind of wish fulfillment, but with a few indignities intact. In ‘Summer of Blood,’ a Vampirish Makeover 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The often ludicrous dialogue — even when sober, which isn’t often, characters strain to sell their lines — suggests a comedy, as does acting so lamentable it seems cruel to identify its perpetrators. ‘She’s Just a Shadow’ Review: Tokyo Grift 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z To ban him from the film world's biggest festival just after he's unveiled the movie of his career seems like a ludicrous overreaction. Cannes: Lars von Trier's "Nazi" scandal gets even dumber 2011-05-19T16:35:00Z New York City's bright lights seemed ludicrous without its bustling tourists. Is there a light at the end of the COVID tunnel for New York's restaurants? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Their aim may sound ludicrous in the light of history. 'A Good Man': the aftermath of Custer's last stand 2012-01-11T22:09:07Z Suffice it to say that duets, quartets and even sextets — in which conflicting desires resolved themselves into harmony — sprang into credible, ludicrous and utterly familiar existence. ‘Blank! The Musical’ Is a DIY Revue at New World Stages 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z But the question is whether the shocking statement a comedian makes is ludicrous enough to signal to the audience that he is actually kidding. What happened to Dave Chappelle: The cruelty of "Sticks & Stones" is a sign of the times 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “The Legend of Hercules” should be stirring and formidable but instead proves largely lifeless and ludicrous. ‘The Legend of Hercules’: A ‘Twilight’ vamp does mythology 2014-01-10T17:34:01Z I told both of these people I thought these requests were ludicrous. Don’t be insincere. Do be empathetic. 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s easy to dwell on the most ludicrous remarks from the front runners. The “liberal media” lie: “The Washington press corps is much closer to Wall Street than it is to Main Street” 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z One of Stone’s objectives, as always, is to deconstruct the causes and consequences of American foreign policy, and the often ludicrous fables we tell ourselves to justify it. Oliver Stone’s Putin puzzle: An evil genius who made history, or a shrewd, small-minded nonentity? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Empire didn’t become the biggest show on television just because it’s unafraid to do absolutely ludicrous things every episode. Empire's Serayah McNeill on Tiana, Rihanna and her Hakeem romance 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z In the Michael Keaton era, it was a ludicrous stretch roadster with a bonnet so long, it must have been a nightmare to park – no wonder he built in an escape pod. Batmobile: the superhero accessory no caped crusader can be without 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z When I started out in 1994, it would have seemed ludicrous to imagine having the maturity, sensitivity and storytelling chops to make programmes about disability, mental health and addiction. 'I was definitely a bit of a tool': Louis Theroux on 25 years of documentary-making 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But she said it was “ludicrous” to judge an “entire corporation” from “a few random emails, in fact, taken out of context.” In Hollywood, It’s a Men’s, Men’s, Men’s World 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The song plays, the lighting flickers, and each time he's illuminated the Doctor is in a different, ludicrous pose. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: rarely saying something 2010-08-19T14:28:00Z At other times, his choices are dubious, self-defeating, tasteless, and even ludicrous. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The idea seemed fraught with financial risk at the time and absolutely ludicrous now, but back then, it just seemed like the right thing to do. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Eva takes a job at a big London bank and lives large, in ways that her friends find obnoxious and ludicrous. Review: ‘Invincible Summer’ Focuses on Friendships Built to Survive Crises 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z We were at least spared the spectacularly ludicrous celebrity-goes-on-holiday-and-makes-a-programme-about-it category this year, but that's pretty much all there is to recommend the NTAs unless you have a particular love of tight satin and big hair. National Television Awards: where quality goes undetected 2011-01-27T13:53:00Z It would be ludicrous to pretend that those events were unconnected: The WGA has been working to organize online journalists at numerous publications, and the staff at Gawker blazed the trail. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Two unintentionally comical sex scenes serve as runners-up to Steven Spielberg’s ludicrous “Munich” bedroom fantasy—one involves a sandstorm, the other features a rack-focus from the couple in heat to a dramatically significant prop. In “Allied,” Empty Nostalgia for American Heroes 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z There might have been some leeway if the casting, direction and costuming weren't so ludicrous. 'Immortals': powerful Greek gods in weak tale 2011-11-09T23:42:03Z This is ludicrous because the so-called security forces are the Ku Klux Klan to most black Americans,” Morrissey said. Morrissey takes yet another bizarre swipe at Obama’s race: “He doesn’t look overly African black” 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Big walks in wild weather, going to the movies on a weekday afternoon, drinking ludicrous cocktails. Box pop TV Q&A: Kate Humble 2011-02-17T15:50:00Z The idea that what women do inside the home and outside don’t impact each other is ludicrous. There’s no such thing as “TMI”: Talking openly about the body is a feminist act 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Branding is an essential part of Ms. Minaj’s arsenal, from her signature wigs, her unexpected and sometimes ludicrous fashion choices, to her endorsements. Music Review: Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday Tour at the Chicago Theater 2012-07-17T22:51:53Z On social media, perpetrators and victims, the traumatised and the traumatising, the innocent and the cynical find themselves gathered with amplifiers blaring out valid claims, ludicrous fancies and filthy abuse in equal proportion. Should I report sexual harassment if I then slept with the man? 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He wears a silly coonskin cap to mimic another of Geronte’s nephews, hailing from New York but sporting a ludicrous Texas drawl, who’s supposedly seeking to nab the money himself. Theater Review: ‘The Heir Apparent,’ by Way of David Ives 2014-04-10T02:00:01Z Those two movies are incredibly serious, but sold us on the rather ludicrous idea of one-man armies. The Expendables: 'See it with the rowdiest crowd possible' 2010-08-05T12:10:00Z Jones disseminates messages ranging from ludicrous to dangerous. Megyn Kelly, NBC’s first lady of normalizing 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z His bristling bass instantly changed the energy in the scene, adding ludicrous tension and unmuffled anger that came off as deliriously silly. In Jerry Stiller, the Rage of Jewish Fathers Found a Hilarious Outlet 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z In this book everyone jumps to ludicrous conclusions, which cause a LOT of disasters and trouble, also there is some really bad advice which causes a LOT of trouble! Dissing you Already by Kate Kingsley - review 2012-11-17T15:00:00Z Work rules that would seem ludicrous in any other business are, in the theater, built into the contracts. Shutting the Door on the Hard-Knock Life 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z In thinking back to the ludicrous list of School of Life classes, one could argue that the school — a word which, etymologically, refers to leisure time — is turning what are fundamentally leisure activities into work. Self-help hits rock Botton 2013-05-13T19:58:00Z It was still ludicrous, of course, but in a much more earnest, straightforward way. When good TV goes bad: how House of Cards came tumbling down 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “Scandal,” which is entering its fourth season, is more Aaron Spelling than Aaron Sorkin, though even “Dynasty” at its campiest didn’t have quite as many florid fights and ludicrous conspiracies. Viola Davis Plays Shonda Rhimes’s Latest Tough Heroine 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Snakes on the brain The patently ludicrous Snakes On A Plane is the beneficiary of a highly successful viral campaign, thus bypassing the critics entirely. The Guide's 1,000th issue: 2004-2007 2013-01-05T00:04:00Z The outcome is a delightfully rum collection of anecdotes and arguments, some of them marvellously arcane in the most ludicrous navel-gazing Oxonian tradition, others touching on grander matters of state, foreign policy and high principle. Romantic contrarian 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But what sounds so delicious in the telling is pallid and ludicrous onscreen. Review: In ‘Manhattan Night,’ Adrien Brody Navigates an Urban Underbelly 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “Because before the suspect was even arrested, they were giving airtime to a truly ludicrous theory.” John Oliver on Fox News's pipe bombs coverage: 'A time for wild speculation' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Their own connections, revealed bit by bit, make their plan even more ludicrous. ‘Intrigo: Dear Agnes’ Review: Please Kill My Husband 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It's a ludicrous pace with which to open, and one that, you would assume, Warren Ellis would be unable to maintain. Gun Machine by Warren Ellis – review 2013-01-31T09:01:01Z The musical stars Victoria Clark, a 62-year-old actress playing a 15-year-old girl who is managing not only her affliction — a condition that limits her life expectancy — but also life with a ludicrous family. Musical Comedy ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ to Open on Broadway Next Fall 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z It has also been called offensive and cynical and "unbelievably misogynistic"; "the whole novel has this ludicrous comedy-macho sensibility," objected journalist India Knight. Christos Tsiolkas: 'There's love in this book' 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Similarly, a Goldman Sachs trader seems less threatening and more ludicrous when you know he spends his money on an opulent coop for his chickens. Celebrity divas: the foolish, fabulous, not-so-fearsome rich 2012-11-15T16:25:36Z It’s silly stuff, yes, and at first I thought he might be mocking the whole Cause that he found so ludicrous, as both lovers laugh hysterically. The Master Mystery: Solving Paul Thomas Anderson’s Many Riddles 2012-09-24T12:00:35Z It would be tempting to only list Moira’s at times outrageous, beautiful, perfect and ludicrous outfits in this category. Schitt's Creek: the five things that make it such perfect, Emmy award-winning TV 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “Aquaman” has some of the same apparent flaws of “Furious 7” without adding a new range of virtues; it’s an admirably ambitious, ludicrous failure. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Like his best performances this one's ludicrous, lurching from camp LA street tough to falsetto disco queen. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z The curious thing about the design is how quickly the ludicrous proceedings start feeling natural. Reviews: Fifa 15, The Sims 4, Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Murasaki Baby and Bayonetta 2 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z There’s the ludicrous dialogue, the fact that its idea of period realism is playing the Lumineers’ “Scotland” over and over for half the pilot episode, the imagining of Nostradamus as a hot young hunk. Reign’s Royal Scandal: What’s So Shocking About Masturbation? 2013-10-15T14:51:02Z The portrait of the conductor is more ludicrous that the parody of him in the new Amazon TV comedy series "Mozart in the Jungle." El Sistema founder, Gustavo Dudamel are targets of scathing new book 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z But it’s ludicrous for an important dancer to spend large parts of her recitals with her face and torso slumped on a table, as Ms. Yerbabuena did on both evenings. Dance Review: Eva Yerbabuena Stars in Flamenco Festival 2014-03-10T21:17:14Z Draw up one of those faintly ludicrous but fascinating lists of the 20 greatest novels, and then do the same for movies: do they match up, at all? Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z The plot's pleasingly ludicrous, and Italy's never looked sunnier. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z “The secrecy has been beyond ludicrous,” he sighs. 'The secrecy has been ludicrous': Star Wars actor Anthony Daniels on the new film and his life as C-3PO 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z I sat through a ludicrous number of kidnappings, plane crashes and assassination attempts involving various Ewings. To detox from the news, I binge-watched ‘Dallas.’ It was more than just fun. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z It’s difficult to lampoon leaders seeking to legislate ludicrous patches to crises like gun violence instead of adopting common sense solutions like stricter regulation. Sacha Baron Cohen reveals “Who Is America?” and the answer is terrifying 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z This story of brutal female jealousy and female narcissism is purposefully titillating and purposefully disturbing, and risks devolving into ludicrous self-parody at almost every moment. Is “The Neon Demon” gruesome misogyny or brilliant feminist commentary? Can it be both? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “People saying Brexit is the exception, that it’s too complicated for culture to tackle and we should quarantine it off, is ludicrous and dangerous.” Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The flimsy-looking, architecturally ludicrous palace of Act III is framed by arches entwined by huge cartoon flowers. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Returns to Lincoln Center 2013-07-02T21:29:12Z That’s why they do ludicrous things like flip out when they see a normal couple doing the normal couple thing of sharing a bed. Conservatives mad at Hilton for showing gay couple in ad 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z This pair, whom privilege has turned into ludicrous moral pretzels, is at the center of “Cute Activist,” a zippy new comedy by Milo Cramer at the Bushwick Starr. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Fun quote: “It’s ludicrous this place exists and everybody doesn’t want to live here,” uttered by the late Anthony Bourdain while strolling through the streets of Cartagena in 2008. Why your next vacation should be in Colombia 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z That life is ludicrous and becomes increasingly more ludicrous and you just go, well, I’m part of the ludicrosity. Can ‘Succession’ Succeed Again? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z You may realize, when it's all over, that Wilson and Sudeikis have handled their ludicrous, caricatured roles with deadpan delicacy and that the whole project has a consistent tone you might call gentle, chaotic self-parody. "Hall Pass": Suburban dads gone wild! 2011-02-24T23:01:00Z Some of its more ludicrous political stories have been picked up by other media, creating a pro-Trump wave of coverage. The most glowing stories about Trump run in tabloid media. Why the romance? 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Pundits from the left and right said it stoked violence and civic unrest; the neoconservative Bill Kristol called the video “ludicrous.” The National Rifle Association’s Telegenic Warrior 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z I have read some unfathomable doublespeak coming out of museum PR departments in my time, but this is by far the most ludicrous. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The actors never lose faith even when the gags grow ludicrous. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z At a toy store, I witnessed a common but ludicrous dynamic; a 4-year-old child was emotionally bullying his mother. How Children Have Become Their Parents' Bullies 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Singer did not immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday from The Associated Press, but earlier, he told City News Service that Zanzi's complaint was "another ludicrous lawsuit with inane claims." Ex-cruise worker files lawsuit against Travolta 2012-06-26T21:17:12Z Finally, in 1977, he was questioned by police after leaving an art museum and its "ludicrous exhibition" of Soviet paintings. Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award 2013-05-01T04:54:14Z If that environmentally friendly new Tesla in the garage includes the option for "ludicrous" acceleration, you can mow down someone at 60 mph in less than three seconds after hitting the accelerator pedal. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z It is ludicrous for him to say he was meeting him in a private capacity. Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch have another private meeting 2013-01-26T20:04:04Z “The Son of No One” self-destructs in a ludicrous, ineptly directed anticlimactic rooftop showdown in which bodies pile up, and nothing makes a shred of sense. | 'The Son of No One': ?The Son of No One,? With Channing Tatum - Review 2011-11-03T23:41:22Z But some peasants were less impressed, and déclassé words such as "ludicrous" and "awful" were soon whizzing about. Kelly Osbourne: in defence of that £160,000 Emmys manicure 2012-10-04T14:02:33Z “From a market point of view, as a dealer, it’s ludicrous,” he said. Delivering Fresh Attention to Josef Albers 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z For that matter, the thought of a deadlock seemed ludicrous to be point of being comedy fodder. The cold comforts of “Designated Survivor” and “Madam Secretary” 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Making no secret of where its sympathies lie, “Queenpins” scampers toward its ludicrous conclusion with less concern for logic than for ensuring that everyone gets what he or she wants. ‘Queenpins’ Review: Suburban Scammers 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Surely the real goal should be supporting women to stay in the industry for longer than a few years, therefore at least partially addressing the frankly ludicrous turnover in the process? Women in theatre: let's get rid of the equality myth 2011-07-18T13:17:05Z Without the distinguished cast, its highbrow melodramas would seem ludicrous. This week's new films 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z At the same time, I wanted it to reflect the times we live in right now, which are both horrifying and completely ludicrous. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The buzz around these four peculiar-looking lads had been building and their ludicrous brand of full-throttle yacht rock had found itself a cult following in London. Hidden treasures: Palladium – The Way It's Not 2013-03-26T16:31:00Z More ludicrous than offensive, it stars Edward G. Robinson as the titular enforcer with Loretta Young in full flapper mode as his wayward adopted daughter. William A. Wellman, Two-Fisted Director With Heart, in Six Takes 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Fall” loses its grip in the final act, as tension gives way to ludicrous horrors. ‘Fall’ Review: Things Are Looking Down 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The city's mayor the "ludicrous" cost of building and running the venue, but it may be starting to pay off after winning over Weinstein. Weinstein goes back to Neverland 2012-09-14T05:24:13Z Which is why she dons a ludicrous wig, various grey items of clothing and, for no reason I can fathom, comedy fake accent. Mary Portas: Secret Shopper: were we left short-changed? 2011-01-20T09:56:43Z A less impressive episode than the two openers, if only because Frank's I-pay-my-taxes shtick gets too many airings, but there are still some fantastic moments, notably Frank's ludicrous attempts to be a father figure. TV highlights 07/07/2011: The Apprentice: The Final Five 2011-07-06T22:00:00Z The idea that we might need a huge rulebook telling us how to use it properly is ludicrous. Is good grammar still important? 2013-05-11T23:06:18Z Even as the homeowners find it increasingly ludicrous that anyone would covet their precarious security, a mood of suspicion mounts. ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z It’s entirely ludicrous but highly enjoyable, and if you haven’t heard about it that isn’t surprising, because “Big Game” is being hurried through theaters this week en route to a VOD future. Honey, we lost the president!: Samuel L. Jackson as POTUS wandering the wilderness is just one reason you shouldn’t skip the delightfully ludicrous “Big Game” 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Marshall excelled at Ball’s type of physical comedy, ensuring Laverne would endure eight seasons of ludicrous bouts of overconfidence leading to humorous humiliation. Perspective | As Laverne DeFazio, Penny Marshall helped push a Lucy-like hilarity down comedy’s conveyor belt 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Buried trauma and resurrected guilt get quite the workout in Daina Reid’s “Run Rabbit Run,” a ludicrous Australian psychodrama that forces the fabulous Sarah Snook to interact with a creepy bunny. ‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: No Child of Mine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Betraying an obnoxious streak that is really defensiveness taken to ludicrous extremes, Karla has trouble with close relationships. Comedy, and sex, in the cancer ward? 'A Funny Thing Happened' goes there with glee 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Steven Dale, strategist at The Gondola Project, says: “Ten years ago people thought the idea of urban cable cars ludicrous. Now almost every city in the developing world wants one.” Urban cable cars: from transport solution to tourist attraction 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z While awaiting charges, and in the midst of the ludicrous media frenzy, she goes into hiding with Patsy, whose own career has also ingloriously crashed and burned. The Scattershot Satire of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z “But I have an old-fashioned attraction to the big screen, which has almost gone anyway, so it’s ludicrous,” he said. For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He would eventually call Husserl ludicrous; Husserl, upon reading a Heidegger manuscript multiple times, would wind up with marginalia like “?” “!” and “?!” Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z In 1994 I turned away from Kuchar’s San Francisco door, having failed to pluck up the courage to congratulate him on his ludicrous vision. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z The most exciting band on this bill is the most ludicrous, or certainly the most sui generis. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z Baron Cohen’s costume in this scene is ludicrous, and it is difficult to imagine anyone thinking this is anything other than a gag. Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bakalova and an antisemitic cake: discuss Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with spoilers 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z In fact, Victor is depicted in particularly ludicrous terms. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z This is modernism Mach 2 – a world of instruments screaming ludicrous potential. Mach2 modernism 2010-07-02T11:03:00Z Watching Bobbie’s friends in Company now, as a 40-year-old with a partner and children, the haranguing of single women that once felt so accusatory now looks ludicrous. Marriage by this age! Babies by that age! When will we stop giving women deadlines? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z This is where my seedling of a white lie became the sprout of a terrible, terribly wonderful idea and bloomed into the ludicrous reality of starting over, from scratch, in French. My double life in therapy 2013-01-15T01:00:00Z Don Winslow called it “a ‘Grapes of Wrath’ for our time,” which is ludicrous but hardly out of bounds in the make-believe realm of blurbs. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In “Liza with a ‘Z,’ ” Liza Minnelli is a ludicrous noodle. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z At moments it also seems to channel the campy Adam West "Batman" TV series of the '60s, what with the on-screen sound-effect words and the array of vain and ludicrous villains. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World": Canadian indie cuteness gone wild! 2010-08-10T21:30:00Z But I think it is ludicrous to suggest that only mothers can write credibly of motherhood. ArtsBeat: Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel 2012-08-15T15:45:38Z It clearly was one hotel owner trying to improve his own standing by slamming all the other hotels with absolutely outrageous and ludicrous accusations. TripAdvisor Icon Will Identify Hotels Where Sexual Assault Occurred 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet today's developments have reached a new level of ludicrous for 's public enemy number one, with his extraordinary reaction to his spat with Frank Ocean. Chris Brown: not the first pop star with a God complex 2013-01-29T16:15:06Z While such ludicrous disinformation may seem peculiar to the social media era, it’s also a throwback to the origins of our most famous monster. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z And the line about taking off the crucifix seemed ludicrous, especially coming from Don. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: A Plot for Dawn 2013-04-22T14:24:25Z |
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