| 单词 | risible |
| 例句 | The fact that he so disgusted by the American subterfuge is particularly risible — as if there’s anything more regularly at the top of his to-do list than “Plan Deadly Operation.” ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: the Oliver North Story 2014-04-24T03:16:08Z And Korie’s text, which often tips into rhyme, can tend risible: “A feeling I infer of anarchy astir.” Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z What could have become a risible "Rambo" meets "The Breakfast Club" mash up -- or worse, a clone of the jingoistic Brat Pack B-movie "Red Dawn" -- emerges as a solid entertainment with sequels in its future. Aussie teen war drama set to explode worldwide 2010-09-07T01:49:00Z To his credit, though, Fuqua sustains the suspense until near the end of two hours; only in the final confrontation between Banning and Kang does the face-off seem over-extended and borderline risible. Review: 'Olympus' is tense yet generic 2013-03-20T13:11:11Z She’s upset about her photograph being in a drawer full of dirty pictures of past lovers, a risible infraction measured against those stories of Sheen’s reputed marital discords. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III: Boys Behaving Badly 2013-02-07T13:07:52Z He tells her, in one of the film's vaguest, most risible lines, "You've convinced me . . . that you are very convincing." Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton heat up Amazon's sleepy thriller "All the Old Knives" 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z While I think Morgan does his best with the material, I find the character more risible than charismatic. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z On one level, the police operation was seen by many critics as risible and amusing. Police spy on campaigners at Glastonbury festival 2012-07-18T10:14:47Z Nothing wrong with that, except that the results were often risible. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z Annual property taxes are risible, resembling other states’ monthly bills. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z And as for all the folk saying that the idea is risible, because paedophiles will laugh at it? Why such outrage over porn filters? The idea seems perfectly reasonable to me 2013-07-26T14:15:00Z And when he competes for Agnes’ affections, “In Love and War” becomes risible. Hemingway on film: 6 films that take him from a WWI hotshot almost to the bitter end 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The extremism of his attacks on liberalism and his glorification of Thomas are continuously risible. How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z From risible little bully in season one to occasionally brave coward in seasons two and three, right through to friend of the Starks, imparter of important plotty information and bread-maker extraordinaire in season seven. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But this risible detour isn't the censorship that matters. Lady Gaga and Katy Perry: banned in China for 'being vulgar' 2011-08-24T19:30:01Z That sex is chaotic, mad, perverse, risible, enlivening and inspiring, and that in its awkwardness and self-consciousness there might be more real contact than in the simple following of positions, doesn't occur to the author. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z Burstyn famously got an Emmy nomination for her 14-second cameo in the HBO film “Mrs. Harris,” and won last year for an over-the-top role as a former showgirl in the fun but risible “Political Animals.” Julia Roberts doesn’t need the spotlight: Why the Emmys is too obsessed with movie stars 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Cheesy visual effects, flat shooting, slack directing and pacing, risible dialogue and characterization, lots of crummy acting, plus a painfully dull first act make this anything but a rapturous experience. 'Left Behind' is a disaster in all the wrong ways 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z That makes the play’s closing pietà risible when it should be moving. | 'My Scandalous Life': Putting Oscar Wilde on the Back Seat 2011-02-14T22:58:39Z Ambition is risible in many ways, but aspiration is just acknowledging that there's something more and you'd like to try it. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z The first is obvious, at least to our sober selves: as risible proof of the emptiness of chemically mediated “insight.” How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Olyphant finally reached a sort of breaking point during the shooting of a film he declined to identify, when, he said, he found himself in some Eastern European country doing risible junk. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z No thriller can be without its risible twist, no slasher movie without its indestructible psycho. Anne Billson 2010-08-12T22:34:00Z Here, the Christmas celebrated by the greater society is crass, stressful and risible. Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z There is something at once sad and faintly risible here. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z To be fair, against the backdrop of everything-goes-activism, attempts to pantomime a message through clothes can seem risible. The Dress Codes of the Uprising 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z You could argue that the relentless brutalisation of women – the sense that, without it, nothing is dramatic enough, the risible gender asymmetry – that it all just has to stop. From Elle to Game of Thrones, why is culture obsessed with rape? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z But in this week's poem, stowing away is a desperate act, neither romantic nor risible. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z He leaves no doubt that this is a risible state of affairs. '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 Should we read anything in to the fact that the Today programme's forays into the arts are largely risible? The Review Show's move to BBC4: a typical piece of BBC cowardice 2013-02-26T15:41:12Z Target someone who is usually taken seriously, even if only by themselves Lindsey Lohan is too risible a figure at this stage to generate the frisson that comes from negatively reviewing more pompous targets. From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z And the overblown reaction to his bad temper was often risible. ‘McEnroe’ Review: Regrets, He’s Had a Few 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z This is one of those movies that never quite sinks to the risible depths you kind of wish it would. ‘The Space Between’ Review: Kelsey Grammer Rocks 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z She is aided in her mission by the fact that the language of extremists tends to occupy the space between risible and profoundly dumb. An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z “Irony, for me, is a sword and a shield for defending yourself from the world and attacking the people that you think are risible,” says Menaker. 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Without someone to play off of, she brings minimal sense of fun to even projects that seem risible. “The Mysteries of Laura”: NBC’s nostalgia problem 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Others thought the key was his risibly staunch commitment to said character. 5 reasons why Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” will make you forget all about “The Colbert Report” 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s both lovely and risible at once, all this fussing over a collar prized for its unfussy appearance. Brooks Brothers Revives the Preppiest Shirt Collar 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Fortress: Sniper’s Eye Rated R for ropy action and risible acting. ‘Fortress: Sniper’s Eye’ Review: Back to the Bunker 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It lags, particularly in the first act, and the libretto can be risibly purple: “the oatmeal slippers of sleep,” “the quietus of your thighs.” Music Review: Britten’s ‘Rape of Lucretia,’ Presented by Mannes Opera 2013-05-12T21:58:05Z There was no place for tuxedos and dressage and the usual risible double entendres. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z And suddenly, a risible piece of cinematic trolling posted to YouTube weeks ago is deadly serious. The Anti-Mohammed Video: Ridiculous, and Now Deadly Serious 2012-09-12T17:09:42Z A writer’s tumescent member is a reader’s risible euphemism. Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “Destroyer” was among the most unexpected, just because the premise — Ms. Kidman plays Erin Bell, a dissolute, alcoholic Los Angeles detective with a sordidly violent past — sounded preposterous, even faintly risible. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But the effect, while polished and expensive-looking, is mostly bland — and occasionally, as when images of Jesus and his mother are traced in gilded light during the Credo, risible. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z How do you write a play about the British royal family without making its members seem risible, banal or irrelevant? Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The Protégé Rated R for risible romance and creative slaughtering. ‘The Protégé’ Review: Ladykiller 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The aesthetic, in other words, risks being risible. | juniper?s ?Crack in Everything? at New York Live Arts 2012-04-06T22:23:13Z It is royale-y cheesy, proof that the most risible clichés of dark American cable and streaming drama can be exported as easily as fast food. Review: ‘Marseille’ Proves That American Cable Clichés Are Easy Exports 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “Why has she entered our bloodstream?” wonders Schoenberger, a persuasive proponent of the play’s enduring importance despite its dated elements, most risibly that women hovering around 30 are past their prime. It Takes More Than the Kindness of Strangers 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Maybe asking someone to describe the current online dispensation to a medieval farmer isn’t so risible after all. ‘Uncanny Valley’ Charts a Tech Pilgrim’s Progress 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The first shows Verloc receiving his assignment; the second, which evokes 1960s radical chic with inane socialite banter, risibly intertwines a police investigation of the failed bombing with a performance of ’s “Erlkönig.” Music Review: Retelling the Tale of a Terrorist Plot 2011-03-21T21:35:24Z After Garp, she was in contention for the baby-boomer comedy The Big Chill and again for the risible baseball drama The Natural. Glenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’ 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z No, I'm afraid we're talking about an entire career of pretty, sincere, pretentious and often risible crapola, a peculiar but intoxicating blend of badness that is brewed to near perfection in "Twelve." "Twelve": On the intoxicating badness of Joel Schumacher 2010-08-05T13:01:00Z Puig adds that the "expensive-looking, massively staged spectacle, with elaborate costumes and ornate production design, feels bloated, by-the-book and lackluster, and is dotted with risible dialogue. … None of this feels new or fresh." 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' hit by plague of ho-hum reviews 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s also that some scenes border on the risible — a wrestling match in space suits — and some characters, like Amelia, are short on charm and plausibility. Review: Interstellar Shows the Wonder of Worlds Beyond 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Reading this, I burst out laughing at the thought of two strange men sitting on my daughter's bed at dusk reading such risibly ghoulish stuff. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z To deliberately change how you speak, however, is risible. Is it wrong for a person to change their accent? 2013-04-20T16:59:01Z Certainly, the glass eye he uses has made him only more risible to them. ‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z On its face and unexamined, that statement could be a perilous, risible gambit, but Mr. Jarecki navigates skillfully through the complexities of his relationship with Ms. Jeter, partly by immediately addressing his own privilege. Movie Review: ‘The House I Live In,’ Directed by Eugene Jarecki 2012-10-04T23:11:01Z But rather than trying to capture how it defines the relationships among Pip, Estella and Miss Havisham, they seem more interested in making points about class and gender and indulging in risible psychologizing. | 'Great Expectations': Gillian Anderson in ?Great Expectations? on PBS 2012-03-30T23:04:46Z Annual property taxes are risible resembling other states’ monthly bills. Lovely, little Delaware — long famous for corporations, chickens and credit cards — is ready for its big moment 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z When the dialogue isn’t flat and mechanical, it veers into risible noir-speak. Review: ‘I Am the Night’ Stitches Together Los Angeles Neo-Noir Clichés 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z It is Simon, you see, who has brought these ladies' powers – if we may risibly term them so – to fruition. Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z As Devaun, the risibly unschooled but surprisingly compassionate ladies’ man of Cori Thomas’s “When January Feels Like Summer,” Hunter is getting the kind of muscle-stretching showcase for which some actors wait half a lifetime. It’s spring in the hearts of the characters of ‘Summer’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” Rae’s Nell contends, and the truth of this sentiment is confirmed in all its risible melancholy in this majestically wrought revival. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z For a time he used social media as a pressure valve, raining scorn on “the trendy sentiments and masturbatory indignations that cascaded so risibly down my screen.” ‘Threshold’ Resurrects the Angry, Ambitious Young Man 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z She keeps you watching even if at times the director, Simon Kinberg, seems more into her risibly high heels. ‘Dark Phoenix’ Review: X-Women Power? Nah 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Directed with exceptional intelligence by Michael Greif, the show is on one level a sly romantic comedy, the story of a high school caper gone risibly awry. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ radiates charm and wit, and that’s no lie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z As risible as his theories sometimes seemed, I have come to make sense of most of them in the past twenty-eight years, as I’ve comfortably assimilated into American culture. My Muslim Father’s Faith in America 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z You come across as a risible individual who is symptomatic of everything that is wrong. Because your attitude is: 'We are only trying to sell newspapers.' Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan join war over 'cheap and pathetic' red tops 2011-07-09T19:35:46Z In the early 1980s they already seemed risible. It Was a Happy Month, Mostly, for Modernists 2011-04-01T21:14:26Z We no longer suffer from rigid and risible affiliations to a single genre: we have realised that having both Animal Collective and Beyonce on your iPod isn't going to split your psyche asunder. Silibil N' Brains: California Schemin' ? the end of authenticity 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z Worse for him, he seemed blissfully ignorant of the effects of giving the Cannes press something so risible and easily misinterpreted and stupid to tweet about. More von Trier fallout; plus, Antonio Banderas is a doctor. Trust him. 2011-05-19T13:31:00Z Linking childlessness and misery is risible but inevitable as the sisters replay the incident. Review | Motherhood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in ‘Pramkicker’ 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z But the whole thing is a bummer, at times risible, as when swarms of law-and-order types conveniently overlook a laughably visible surveillance camera. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Review: Lisbeth Salander, Blunted in Tooth and Claw 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Her speech in a Narcotics Anonymous meeting is as risible as her confrontation with a supermarket checkout clerk regarding her missing son's whereabouts. "Crisis" boasts big names – Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, even Armie Hammer! – and fails them all 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Q. The book’s narrator lives in a luxury high-rise with the risible name the Situation. Joseph O’Neill on Dubai, ‘a Place in Formation’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z There is a heady mix of insouciant charm, playful irony and risible pretentiousness throughout the Museum of Modern Art’s new Bjork retrospective, which opens on Sunday. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The wife becomes risibly alarmed, and the man turns sniveler, racing to the phone to tell the cops to retract his story. “The Sopranos” at 17: After watching all six seasons, I’m left with the queasy feeling that the legions of fans of the show have been played 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Clyde’s social climbing is summed up in a risible salute to fast cars, while Sondra has a sourly swinging paean to New York City. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Yet other forms of outreach veer from the risible to the oppressive. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The press hasn’t always been receptive and not necessarily because of art-film snobbism or because the movies are as risibly pretentious as “Only God Forgives.” ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Miike’s Honest Cop, Winding Refn’s Wallpaper 2013-05-22T15:14:03Z This is the episode that proves how risibly unrealistic Kim's efforts to negotiate between two sides of the same man, especially knowing that each serves different masters. From beignet bites to a deadly dance, here are 2022's best TV episodes. Well, six of them, anyway 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z And the sometimes risible mock-medievalism of “Outsiders” goes way beyond a few vaguely Welsh and Gaelic coinages. Review: ‘Outsiders,’ the Latest Iteration of the American Family as Criminal Enterprise 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The Thick of It captured the last years when the glittering facade broke and became risible. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z Not all of the shows deserve that showcase — a fair share of the Netflix offerings are risible melodrama of interest strictly for variety’s sake, or to homesick expats from the show’s countries of origin. On Netflix, the Borders Remain Open 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This is closer to Walter Hill’s stagey “Streets of Fire,” with a Japanese twist and risible script. | 'Bunraku': Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson in ?Bunraku? ? Review 2011-09-30T01:07:36Z The romance may be risible, but the scenes of mass panic and political desperation are slickly disturbing. Movie Review: Young Koreans Try to Survive an Epidemic in ‘Flu’ 2013-09-06T00:51:41Z But the performances and script are baffling, verging on the risible. Travellers ? review 2011-01-13T22:04:00Z I have hobbies – a bike, comics, a stamp album, model trains – that now seem almost risibly characteristic of their period. Yes, the men of my father's generation were better at being men 2013-05-17T19:01:02Z Thus the sombre absurdism of The Pianist succeeded The Ninth Gate's occasionally risible Euro-horror, much as Chinatown, contender for best American picture of the 1970s, was preceded by the almost forgotten Italian sex comedy What? Roman Polanski 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z A steroidal score and endless shots of excruciating musical acts interrupt his search — and ours — for the barely-seen bear, whose point of view dominates the risible attack scenes. ‘Grizzly II: Revenge’ Review: Bear Atrocity 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z He’s a professional with real credits, so I assume that he’s not finally responsible for the ineptitude of “Fifty Shades Darker,” which ranges from continuity issues to unsurprisingly risible writing. Review: ‘Fifty Shades Darker,’ and Only Half as Watchable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But he knew it was vital to remember that the evil men who were jeopardising civilisation were also risible little twerps. We've always found Hitler hilarious ? the alternative is much more odious 2011-08-27T23:06:06Z And not just a doctor but one who calls in the nurse from the next room so she can share a laugh at your risible manhood. From The Simpsons to Nurse Jackie, the most useful (and useless) TV medics 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In fact, when he tried to be more serious, as with 1999's turgid `End of Days,' it was risible: nothing more hilarious than seeing Arnie `act!' Schwarzenegger must revamp image once more 2011-05-21T20:31:06Z The first performance I saw didn't do much to change my mind: Charles Gounod's Faust seemed almost risibly vulgar, reducing one of the great stories of western culture to a series of saccharine, melodramatic gestures. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z “Some are chic, many are risible; all of it has an exuberant view of the future that marks it as decidedly from the past.” 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The director and designers avoided the neo-Classicism of Gluck’s time in favor of a style more authentically pagan, although with some risible hand gestures and corny dance moves for the chorus. Music Review: In Dark Temple, Antiquity?s Sober Doings 2011-02-14T05:11:48Z The performances are amateurish, the stylistic choices are maddening in their inconsistency, and the politics are risible. Don’t take “The Assignment”: Michelle Rodriguez plays a transgender assassin in the year’s worst movie so far 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The union boss described the pay offer made from the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, as "risible". Train drivers announce fresh round of strikes 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Among his more risible claims is that 29 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were lay ministers. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z “Attempts by the Cuban government to distract the world from the significance of this day are transparent and risible.” Cuba calls the presence of US nuclear-powered submarine at Guantanamo Bay naval base a provocation 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z This excuse has always been paper-thin, of course, and based on the risible premise that queer people, merely by existing, are "sexual" in some undefinable way that straight people are not. he Tennessee drag decision shows even a Trump judge can see through the "protect the kids" lie 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z "It would be risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election for President of the United States." How an anti-abortion law firm teamed up with a disgraced Kansas attorney to dispute 2020 election 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s an effective shorthand for what the book does quite slowly: reveal the CEO as a risible figurehead and confront the employees with a power vacuum they must savagely compete to fill. Review | ‘The Consultant’: A deliciously creepy star turn for Christoph Waltz 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Again and again throughout his erratic, sometimes risible and seldom uninteresting career, he has locked his characters away in hermetic puzzle-box environments, governed by rules that don’t always announce themselves until the final scenes. Review: 'Knock at the Cabin,' M. Night Shyamalan's latest, can't see the forest for the tease 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z On Thursday, McFadden called that “a risible lie,” and after the jury convicted Hale-Cusanelli in May, the judge suggested to prosecutors that he would consider a request for a longer sentence for “obstruction of justice.” Jan. 6 rioter who said he didn’t know Congress met at Capitol gets 4 years 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “He pushes all limits in order to bring every guilty impulse or thought pattern to light, where it can be examined in all its ridiculous, risible nakedness,” Storr wrote last year. R. Crumb Means Some Offense 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Republicans repeatedly make the risible and flat-out false accusation that the pre-Dobbs legal structure allowed abortion "up until the time of delivery." So much for "leave it to the states": Republicans test the waters with a federal abortion ban bill 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z More startling, and risible, was Cox’s response this week to his federal indictment. Column: Indicted by feds, former California congressman cynically plays the anti-government card 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z But until Amnesty recants its offensive accusations against Ukraine — as it previously recanted its risible refusal to list Navalny as a prisoner of conscience — it does not deserve to be taken seriously. Opinion | What’s up with Amnesty International and its moral myopia on Ukraine? 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Every risible conflation makes the term easier to minimize when it is used appropriately and easier to justify ignoring real manifestations of white supremacy when they appear. Opinion | Joe Biden working while covid-sick was not ‘white supremacy’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The angst about Biden's not holding the Saudis and the Israelis to account on this visit is risible, as if we have any credibility left that allows us to arbitrate between right and wrong. Final act of empire? U.S., Israel and the Saudis now heading for war with Iran 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z It is a risibly constricted understanding of racism. Opinion | The racial ignorance of Virginia’s health czar 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Blessed with a cast that seems positively delighted to indulge in risible stage mischief, director Raymond O. Caldwell works the levers of Bioh’s satire with rewarding dexterity. Review | Hooray for ‘Nollywood’! Jocelyn Bioh’s Nigerian satire is a pleasure. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z If Mr. Willick’s extraordinarily strained attempt to force an analogy between the events of Jan. 6 and progressive opposition to the current Supreme Court was not so illogical and sad, it would be risible. Opinion | A rise in tensions as the Supreme Court nears the end of its term 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z This risible rhetoric is clearly meant to encourage violence, and it's working. Republicans hijack Pride month: A celebration turns to harassing, abusing, and trolling LGBTQ people 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Yes, the lax gun laws and risible background checks are partially to blame. There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z That Mitchell’s risibly restless Opal has no eyes for Juicy — and uptight Marine Larry does — are just two of the many ways “Fat Ham” turns “Hamlet” giddily upside down. Perspective | To revive us, we need plays like the Pulitzer-winning ‘Fat Ham’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z They’re in on a larger joke about the risible nature of racism. What Should I Do About a Friend’s Racist Figurines? 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Her trademark song was the risible “Shy,” a misapplied adjective to both Winnifred and Burnett. For Carol Burnett, the Sondheim award is personal 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z After Biden's set, Noah took the stage with a number of risible quips about Biden, the Democrats, the GOP, and individual members of the media. "They're all here, vaccinated and boosted": Biden roasts Fox News hosts at WHCD 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z But all this makes risible the frequently heard originalist claim that the method promotes the stability and durability of constitutional meaning over time. Perspective | If every judge is an originalist, originalism is meaningless 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The conviction followed a secret trial featuring risibly concocted evidence; while he was in Russia for a friend’s wedding, a Russian acquaintance had given him a thumb drive containing what he said were tourist photos. Opinion | Brittney Griner’s ordeal fits Russia’s pattern of judicial mistreatment 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z A senior Conservative MP has accused a party colleague of writing "utterly risible, illiterate, immoral and offensive bile" on Ukrainian refugees. Ukraine war: Tory MPs row over 'immoral' refugees tweet 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z But recently, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia has been suffering diminishing returns for her relentless, risible Nazi talk. Marjorie Taylor Greene's "Gazpacho police" is very dumb — but we underestimate her at our peril 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In rejecting the request, the judge wrote that it would be “risible were its target not so grave: the undermining of a democratic election for President of the United States.” ‘A real conflagration’: Wisconsin emerges as front line in war over the 2020 vote 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z “It shows how important it is for countries to appropriate that term ‘democracy,’ to be seen as democratic, even those that are clearly — even risibly — not democratic,” Mitchell said. Biden’s ‘Summit for Democracy’ includes countries that hardly seem to qualify 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z “This is a legitimate subject of debate, and the argument that it makes students unsafe is risible.” MIT’s choice of lecturer ignited criticism. So did its decision to cancel 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z And the White House’s risible claims that it won’t cost anything only makes sense if you think raising taxes to pay for new entitlements is costless. Column: The problem isn't raising taxes, it's spending, spending, spending 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z It was risible for the schools to separate meetings by race after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis police custody last year, she said. Minnesota attorney and mother serves as ‘ambassador’ against critical race theory 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z This is the ultimate vindication of a risible, self-interested approach: between them, Barcelona and Real Madrid have stifled La Liga of competitive integrity so effectively that their floor is still above almost everyone else’s ceiling. Cherish the Feel-Good Stories. They Won’t Last. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z His case was risibly weak, as was the National Intelligence Estimate. Opinion | Manning Up, Letting Us Down 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z The Times awarded two stars to "this infuriating mixed bag", which "veers wildly from moments of dreamy intrigue to risible scenes of camp", Kevin Maher wrote. Rave reviews for Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in new film Spencer 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Excellent or risible, these movies share at least one thing: pessimism. Opinion | ‘Reminiscence’ is another pessimistic climate change movie. Filmmakers should get more creative. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Fast forward eight months, and that boast appears even more risible now than it did at the time. Opinion | So much for the Abraham Accords. Trump made things worse in the Middle East. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Pitchfork actually liked it a little, in an extremely qualified way, calling it “a risible and intermittently lovely 28-song collection which, in its bonkers way, brings Morrison’s tumultuous career full circle.” After riling fans with anti-lockdown songs, Van Morrison now accused of anti-Semitism 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z “No program that gives the stamp of federal approval to such risible sources deserves the light of day. These ‘Proposed Priorities’ are an affront to history and civics as they should be taught.” Biden administration offers grants to teach children ‘1619 Project,’ inherent racism central to U.S. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The generals, intelligence operatives, diplomats, bankers and corporate executives who manage empire find this idealistic talk risible. Unraveling of the American empire: A series of military debacles point toward a tragic end 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z One of their principal complaints — that statehood represents a partisan power grab by Democrats — was risible in light of U.S. history. Perspective | Even the GOP’s three best arguments against D.C. statehood don’t stand up to scrutiny 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Their only ammo is weak: tabloid trash about his son and the absurd idea that Joe is out of it, a smear that only became more risible after watching Thursday’s news conference. Opinion | Just Give It a Go, Joe 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Penny stocks, which trade for risibly low prices, are especially vulnerable. Column: Forget GameStop and short sellers — the SEC says 'OCMillionaire' manipulated a worthless stock higher 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z A few will risibly say it's worse than anything Trump ever did. Democrats can save themselves with this One Weird Trick: Reject the Trump census 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The rollback, as we’ve reported, was supported by some of the most risibly incompetent technical research placed on the federal record in years. Column: The rats fleeing Trump's sinking ship don't deserve to be praised 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z So, allegations in sufficient quantity, although of uniformly risible quality, validate senatorial grandstanding that is designed to deepen today’s widespread delusions and resentments. Opinion | Hawley, Cruz and their Senate cohort are the Constitution’s most dangerous domestic enemies 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Which brings us to Texas’s risible bid to have the Supreme Court throw out the election results — which the justices predictably rejected Friday evening. Opinion | These Republicans may not be capable of shame, but you should know who they are 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The playing of a top tournament in an open hotel lobby is risible. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ accepted — with reservations 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Graham’s risible hypocrisy on “Obamagate”, however, has been overshadowed by a more spectacular case. Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The larger his national popular vote margin of defeat, the more his predictable sore-loser whining will seem not just contemptible but risible. Opinion | America’s domestic tranquility depends on us administering the 2020 election right 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Within minutes of the report, Trump tweeted a risible suggestion that the November election should be postponed. Opinion | All of Trump’s magic is here to behold 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Klein dismissed critics who suggested he would reprimand his colleague, "The idea that I would try to get Matt, literally my co-founder and oldest friend in journalism, fired over this letter is risible." Tensions among Vox employees erupt on Twitter after journalist signs 'cancel culture' letter 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Praying people should pray, and all others should hope: May I never crave anything as much as these people crave membership in the world’s most risible deliberative body. Opinion | Trump must be removed. So must his congressional enablers. 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The decade’s flippant treatment of “insanity” is risible now, and especially tragic after Flint’s death in 2019. The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 8, The Prodigy – Firestarter 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The title of the statement is almost risible: “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction.” Opinion | Another unarmed black man has died at the hands of police. When will it end? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The risible video is the work of an opportunistic Internet filmmaker whose projects include a clip about his 5-year-old son’s discovery of “the truth” about the wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Opinion | Why people believe in a ‘plandemic’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The government purposefully obscures its activities, publishing disinformation and famously risible propaganda. Is North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un actually in "grave danger after surgery"? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In 1918, most governments were caught unawares by the pandemic – because they had no disease surveillance system in place – and public information campaigns were risible. Closed borders and ‘black weddings’: what the 1918 flu teaches us about coronavirus 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z It’s nominally the latest Universal Pictures reboot of one of its classic horror properties, but happily, it has nothing in common — in terms of plot, style or quality — with 2017’s risible update of “The Mummy.” Review: Thanks to a superb Elisabeth Moss, this 'Invisible Man' is something to see 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The tournament and TV pretended, risibly, that Navratilova and McEnroe had broken hitherto unknown “safety protocols” – not what they actually did, which was to embarrass Court. Australian Open 2020: the tournament that tarnished tennis’s image | Kevin Mitchell 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z These minor hypocrisies are more instructive than risible, however, because they point to the heart of the climate problem. Opinion | It’s time we finally get a serious climate change plan 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Issues of everything here from infidelity, identity theft and bank security to suicide, criminal justice and, gulp, torture are cursorily and often risibly handled. Review: Tyler Perry heads to Netflix with latest drama ‘A Fall From Grace’ 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A generous assessment of United’s performance - it’s the season of goodwill, after all - is that they were a risible shambles. Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea: Premier League – live! 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z A skilled demagogue, Trump unerringly taps into their anxiety with his risible claims about a war on Christmas and now a war on Thanksgiving. Opinion | Trump’s claim of a ‘war on Thanksgiving’ is absurd — but also sinister 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z They’ve only won five games all season, and two of those were against a risible Red Star Belgrade rabble. West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – live! 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The case for austerity, “expansionary fiscal contraction”, as George Osborne dubbed it, is plainly risible. Elizabeth Warren’s project is to remake capitalism. What can British politicians learn from her? | Will Hutton 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z As I reported last year, the administration’s published backup for its proposed rule changes was risible. Column: By siding with Trump on emissions, GM, Chrysler and Toyota are asking for industry chaos 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “Trump has inspired multiple acts of racist violence and his referring to impeachment as a ‘lynching’ is risible,” wrote The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer. President Trump roundly criticized for comparing the impeachment inquiry against him to a "lynching" 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The wall is child’s play compared with the risible fantasy that Sanders has rolled out in lieu of an actual climate change strategy. Opinion | Trump’s wall is child’s play compared to Bernie Sanders’s climate plan 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Even if he takes the company to court and wins, the maximum fine would be a risible $100,000. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z And the retort of acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan, who noted that parts of the United States are also unsafe, is risible. Opinion | The Trump administration’s new policy again shows its contempt for Central Americans 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Mnuchin’s far-fetched pretext for the delay — that eight more years of technical planning were required to prevent counterfeiting issues in the bill’s new design — is now exposed as risible. Opinion | The Mnuchin myth on Harriet Tubman, exposed 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The questions are likely to be risible and the answers will be worse. Facebook’s Libra hearings in Congress are the best free entertainment you’ll get all week 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The more intense the action, the more risible the series becomes. Review: ‘The Name of the Rose’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Moreover, the case of Jo Cox’s murderer, Thomas Mair, a middle-aged loner who had decorated his bedroom with Nazi paraphernalia, had made it clear that a racist Briton could be both risible and lethal. The Undercover Fascist 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The idea that the CTA has constructive motives when it alleges charter schools are riven with “waste, fraud and abuse” is risible. California Editorial Rdp 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Trump ’s stated reasons for the veto ranged from specious to risible. Trump’s veto over Yemen is a scandalous abuse of presidential power | Simon Tisdall 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z If they did not exactly threaten to dismiss their opponents with overwhelming quality, their passing was at least less risible. Fulham are relegated after Watford and Troy Deeney show no mercy 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The report, issued last January, relied on manipulated “facts,” illogical conflation and glaring omissions to reach risible conclusions. Opinion | Immigrants aren’t terrorists, no matter what the administration says 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z During the World Cup Pogba felt compelled to describe himself as “the most criticised player in the world” but he went on to explain how he tries to brush off such stuff as risible. Can Ole Gunnar Solskjær find a solution to the Paul Pogba puzzle? | Amy Lawrence 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z “With no input from the General Assembly, the Governor issued an Executive Order where he turned his back on both the state and federal constitutions and embarked on another go-it-alone strategy,” they wrote, risibly. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z And one senior source from the Conservative European Research Group told the BBC it was "transparent and risible". Tory rebels reject Brexit vote compromise 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The notion that jobs being lost in China would somehow magically result in jobs being created in America was risible to Cobb. The American Casualties of Trump’s Trade War 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Campbell’s early stories remain almost uniformly risible, focusing on problem-solving space adventurers who sit around exchanging endless expository dialogue such as: “ ‘You should talk!’ John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's Golden Age, was as brilliant as he was problematic 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The concept seems, I know, risible, chaining one of the purest and least penetrable forms of theater to “Unchained Melody.” A Japanese Elvis play and a Rosa Parks-inspired jazz ode are connected in surprising ways — no, really. - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Not only did the President put forward a risible conspiracy theory, something he’s done many times before. Donald Trump, Jamal Khashoggi, and the Post-Truth World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The idea that a person is sincere is considered almost risible in Washington today. The Ballad of Watermelon Joe and other Kavanuggets 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z They floated this risible theory painting Ford as a stooge who is somehow being mind-controlled by the Democrats to believe that Kavanaugh was the guy who assaulted her. Brett Kavanaugh’s best defense: Loud shouting and conspiracy theories 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The organization has long had musician Ted Nugent on the board, despite his long history of risible and racist rhetoric mocking the victims of gun violence. Why did the NRA support 3D-gun guy Cody Wilson for so long? He was always a shady character 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But there is a less risible argument making the rounds, one worth real consideration on its own merits. Opinion | The Kavanaugh allegations are making us wait. Thank God. 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z His other movies, which include “Cabin Fever,” “Hostel” and this year’s risible remake of “Death Wish,” are ghastly exercises in Grand Guignol, prone to deliver graphic scenes of murder and dismemberment with a self-satisfied smirk. Review: 'The House With a Clock in its Walls' offers creaky, freaky haunted-mansion fun 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z But it’s also more brazen than that: offering up a risible explanation whose very implausibility confirms that Moscow simply doesn’t care. Russia’s brazen lies mock the world. How best to fight for the truth? | Jonathan Freedland 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z As our US correspondent Gary O'Donoghue puts it, the previous number of 64 was always risible. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Tellingly, and another sign of the thinness of the talent around Mr Macron, this risible intervention was Mr Roger-Petit's first ever appearance on television from the Elysée since he took his job last year. French beating scandal reveals Macron's feet of clay 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Hundreds, perhaps thousands of civilians dead, not the 21 the US military so risibly claimed. The US demolished Raqqa when they 'liberated' it. Who will rebuild it? | Molly Crabapple 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Steven Pinker recently wrote that such scenarios are based on the risible notion that humans are so moronic that they would give a machine “control of the universe without testing how it works.” Out of their minds: wild ideas at the ‘Coachella of consciousness’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Because as far as I can tell so far, those complaints are so wrong as to be risible. Galloway's war of words with a mystery Wikipedia editor 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Trudeau described the tariffs as “unilateral and illegal” and the national security pretext as “risible”. Macron calls on G7 members to confront Trump over trade 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Leave.EU said the total alleged overspend represented less than 0.1 percent of the total campaign finance spend and was a risible attempt to portray the campaign as breaking the rules. Brexit campaign group fined by British elections watchdog for... 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Democrats accused the Republicans of “often risible attempts to explain away inconvenient truths” while turning a blind eye to obvious leads. Republicans on House Intelligence Panel Absolve Trump Campaign in Russian Meddling 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The demand that China cut its trade surplus by $100bn is, in a technical sense, risible. A lose-lose trade war looms between America and China 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Johnson explains that the idea of taming a fast-evolving creature such as the English language is not only impossible, but risible: Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The description alone triggered a laughing spell in Heathers—not an uncommon reaction to science he finds risible. Meet the ‘data thugs’ out to expose shoddy and questionable research 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z However, his risible views are in line with the Trump administration’s general hostility to Muslim refugees and immigrants. Opinion | A Trump U.N. nominee would be an embarrassment to the United States 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z They can never justify the risible discrimination that Miller and his ilk seek to promote. Opinion | The Necessity of Stephen Miller 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The idea that this is a conspiracy against Moore by Democrats, establishment Republicans, and liberal media fake news is risible. Roy Moore Is Accused of Sexual Misconduct by a Fifth Woman 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr Xi’s talk of a “community of common destiny” for mankind is risible if China is acting like a playground bully. South Korea is making up with China, but a sour taste remains 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z As for the risible claim that scientists are shielded from accountability, one need only glance at the application and review process for federal research grants. Federal funding: Stifled by budgets, not irrelevance : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z They organise for the illegal meeting of representatives in a castle outside of Norway’s capital, with rented cars, decoy flights and risible cover stories. How “Oslo” turned diplomatic negotiation into compelling theatre 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Price’s risible excuse is that he was too busy with his official obligations to fly commercial. Opinion | Tom Price should pay taxpayers back 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z His method is to cite real numbers, then draw risible and extravagantly sinister conclusions from them. Opinion | Kris Kobach is the real fraud 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Not only did he hardly pick him - Lemar started only six games - he sold him for a risibly low fee for a player of such talent. Lemar’s talent now obvious to see, after tough start at Caen 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The closest historical analogue is Muhammad Ali’s risible fight with the Japanese pro wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976, which is widely regarded as the most embarrassing moment of the Greatest’s career. Why is Floyd Mayweather fighting Conor McGregor? 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z However, he finds Mr. Trump’s claim that he’s “more presidential” than all of his predecessors — except Lincoln — risible. Donald Trump provides fodder for comedians on both the left and the right 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The coverage of this tournament in the UK has been a risible farce, golf fans treated with utter contempt just so the PGA can throw spurious cutting-edge shapes. US PGA Championship 2017: second round – live! 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z And although many of the memo’s assertions were risible, such as the idea that women are not coders because they are less intrigued by “things” than men are, others made more sense. A Google employee inflames a debate about sexism and free speech 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z This business of getting rid of the FBI director because he was unfair to Hillary Clinton is risible at best, likewise the defamatory assertion that the bureau was an unhappy mess under him. Opinion | Jeff Sessions Clams Up in Congress 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z And while it may seem outlandish and even risible to suggest Russia would go to such lengths to undermine opponents, the reality is that Russia has long mastered this art of dezinformatsiya. Russian fake news is not new: Soviet Aids propaganda cost countless lives 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z He is one of dozens of opposition figures detained in the past two months on similarly risible charges. Donald Trump’s “great friend” locks up more dissidents in Egypt 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z No wonder that he was the model for the risible Howard Roark, hero of Ayn Rand’s celebration of individualism, The Fountainhead. Frank Lloyd Wright: fantasist or genius? 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z As in “Prometheus,” his talents rise admirably about the lackluster material, and his gifts as an actor shine even in the most risible of scripts. ‘Alien Covenant’ expansion of ‘Prometheus’ universe tries too hard to make us care 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But the ball is a risible nonsense, behind Mbappe, free on the penalty spot. Monaco 3-1 Borussia Dortmund (agg 6-3): Champions League quarter-final – as it happened 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z It refers to a handicap of above-average proficiency, not so high as to be risible, but not so low as to indicate too much time spent away from the flock. How Donald Trump became the golfer-in-chief 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “Holocaust centers”? Apart from all the inarticulate and risible things that this fellow has said, this particular ahistorical eructation appears worthy of discipline or dismissal. Opinion | The Daily Spicer: ‘Holocaust centers.’ Yes, the press secretary used that term. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But nobody has wondered that for months, and it was a risible attempt to deflect attention. The Trump Campaign Has Been Under Investigation Since July 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The idea that the arts will wither away if the NEA goes away is risible. Opinion | Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Trump has given risibly inconsistent accounts of his own ties to Russia. Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Most notoriously, and most risibly, she defended the presence of guns in schools by citing rural schools’ need to have firearms to defend against “potential grizzlies.” The Betsy DeVos Confirmation Debacle 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “In the past, Trump infuriated us, but now we find him risible,” said the newspaper, which is published by the People’s Daily, the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece. Chinese Media: Donald Trump's Taiwan Strategy 'Despicable' 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It rewrote the 1972 Clean Water Act, claiming vast new power to regulate ditches and streams under the risible notion that they are “navigable waters.” Five Ways to Restore the Separation of Powers 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z To be fair, he had the good grace to resign after that risible shambles, albeit mainly in the hope of bodyswerving the postmortems. The Fiver Christmas Awards 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Sparta Prague have already qualified as winners of Group K, while three-time European champions Internazionale have been nothing short of a risible disgrace, and are out. Southampton v Hapoel Beer Sheva: Europa League – live! 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z When King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died in 2015, the Western media systematically whitewashed his horrific crimes against humanity, risibly portraying him as a “shrewd” and “cautious” “reformer.” Fidel Castro’s Cuba was accused of numerous human rights abuses — while the crimes of U.S. allies are barely mentioned 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z But in the case of the new book Give Please a Chance by Bill O’Reilly and the novelist James Patterson, you can agree the message and still find the thing risible. Bill O'Reilly's Give Please a Chance: an uncivil host lectures kids on civility 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Trump’s ambitions would be bounded by strong legislative and legal institutions and by his own risible ignorance of real leadership. One final election plea, on the behalf of U.S. ideals 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The idea that technology and capital together somehow provide lower risk and better returns is risible, an argument that has been proven wrong across one industry after another. At BlackRock, a Wall Street Rock Star’s $5 Trillion Comeback 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It bears repeating—though it shouldn’t be necessary—that those arguments are risible. The Problem With the Old Conspiracy Theory in a New Movie 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It appeared to be a risible manipulation of the regulations, which say timeouts can only be taken for an, “acute medical condition that requires immediate attention”. Stan Wawrinka upsets Novak Djokovic in final to take first US Open title 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The culture in which West’s video prop is taken seriously as a sculpture is absurd, bankrupt, risible. So, Kanye West has become a Famous artist overnight? Props to him! 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z That risible assertion serves no other purpose than to confirm that his own allies realize that Mr. Trump’s proposal was politically toxic. Mr. Trump’s gibberish on Muslims 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z It was ridiculous, and the result of risible playacting from Fabregas, who went down holding his face. Italy v Spain: Euro 2016 – live! 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s a risible misconception that rugby is populated by athletes inferior to high-level American footballers. One Man’s Quest to Get Americans to Care About Rugby 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Murray responds with two granite points, though, thrashing through forehand volleys at the net for 30-all, only to ruin his good work with a risible drop shot that barely reaches the net. French Open 2016: Andy Murray v Richard Gasquet – live! 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Taunton alleges that his friend “never really studied the great books and the great questions in real depth” – a claim that is risible to anyone who has read Hitchens’s literary essays. Christopher Hitchens and the Christian conversion that wasn’t | Matthew d’Ancona 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Madame Secretary, I reflect, looks a lot better in the television series, risible as it is. We can’t vote for either one: On world stage, Clinton and Trump present different, but serious, dangers 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It was ridiculous, and the result of risible playacting from Fabregas, who went down holding his face. Italy v Spain: Euro 2016 – live! 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The idea that Susan Rogers, who’d sat for countless hours by his side at Paisley Park’s recording desks, “knew anything” about his music was, he said, risible. ‘I exited Prince’s Mayfair suite feeling like a mouse savaged by a particularly fiendish cat’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Murray responds with two granite points, though, thrashing through forehand volleys at the net for 30-all, only to ruin his good work with a risible drop shot that barely reaches the net. French Open 2016: Andy Murray v Richard Gasquet – live! 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Among Trump’s risible proposals to cut costs: He claims he would save $300 billion a year from reducing waste in a prescription-drug program, but the entire program costs only a third that much. 2016: The reckless vs. the responsible 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z It's easy enough to drift into the current of its sometimes risible melodrama. 'Heartbeat' has a pulse but not much else going for it 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z At Liberty, he made another such I’m-one-of-you gesture by citing a biblical verse in “Two Corinthians,” thereby betraying a risible lack of familiarity with biblical language and usage. Donald Trump: Defender of the Faith 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He is a character who could have lifted the film out of the Christian-cinema ghetto to speak to a militantly secular world where faith seems not only impossible but risible. A ‘Faith-Based Film’ Rises Above the Usual 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The trolls and the counter-trolls—the standard side effects of the Internet—would be risible were the consequences not so tragic. The Islamist War on Bloggers 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The cozy banality is both risible and reassuring. 'Straight White Men' gently wrestles with the meaning of privilege 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Brady’s free kick, with the box loaded, proves yet another risible nonsense. Republic of Ireland v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Euro 2016 playoff – as it happened 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z This risible policy lacks any basis in either science or common sense; the pesticide legislation was intended to regulate toxic chemicals. Stuck in a Regulatory Mash-Up 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z What’s more, the designers saw fit to ruin all the deftly balanced mechanics, add a bunch of risible single-player modes and, worst of all, overlook local multiplayer in favour of online battles. The 30 worst video games of all time – part one 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z And people have continued to find it risibly apposite ever since - especially in conjunction with the equally commonplace cognomen, Will. A Point of View: Can your name shape shape your personality? - BBC News 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Imagine what I was feeling going into that stadium for one of the most risible games in football history, it was an absolutely disgraceful match that should never have taken place. Playing under Pinochet: How Chile’s stars of the 1970s feared for their lives 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Brady’s free kick, with the box loaded, proves yet another risible nonsense. Republic of Ireland v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Euro 2016 playoff – as it happened 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It's not helped by struggling, risible performances, painfully mawkish tone and over-the-top death scenes. 'Dragon Blade' visually grand, emotionally hollow 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z For every sensible action to boost vaccination rates, they have long been there, like a sort of perverse bit of Newtonian physics, with an equal and risible reaction. 'Jim Carrey, Please Shut Up About Vaccines' 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z On Tuesday a divided federal appeals court revived the competition doctrine of the early 20th century and upheld the risible antitrust campaign against Apple. Apple Rule of Unreason 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z “Ted 2” is often funny, occasionally clever, and frequently risible, almost always on purpose. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Ted 2’ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z In “Spy,” she lets the rest of her flags fly, first donning a series of risibly dowdy disguises, then swanning around in wigs and gowns that turn her into a slinky, seductive siren. ‘Spy’ would be a ho-hom action comedy but for Melissa McCarthy 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z However inconvenient this might be for the individual, it was leavened by the silliness of the larger apparatus—the risible language of “class enemy” and “counter-revolutionary elements,” the absurd devotion to evidentiary protocol. “The Republic of Bad Taste” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Variety called the film "a risibly long-winded drama." CANNES WATCH: McConaughey, Van Sant film greeted harshly 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The effort was dubbed a 'dishonest tear-jerker' by The Guardian and Variety called it a "risibly long-winded drama". Van Sant not too fazed by harsh reviews on 'The Sea of Trees' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z "They'll base their decision on other areas. The idea they're going to vote for someone who looks best feeding a lamb is risible. " Election 2015: Is there any sense behind political photo ops? - BBC News 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Its sole cinema venture in the 1980s was the risible Howard The Duck - a colossal flop that inexplicably featured an inter-species romance as its sub-plot. Marvel Avenged: From financial ruin to the biggest film franchise in history - BBC News 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z This was risible and also prone to backfire. The limits to ridicule 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Khamenei added that a speech to Congress this month by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tehran's nuclear program was "risible". Khamenei slams Republican letter on Iran, hits at U.S. 'backstabbing' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Christie’s complaints about federal implementation or loss of local control are risible. The Republican curriculum on Common Core 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The selfie stick has been framed by my peers as a risible technology of which ownership is akin to the forfeiture of good taste. In defense of the selfie stick 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Their suggestion to hold a referendum in Crimea after nearly a year of suppression of those opposing Russian annexation and oppression of minority Ukrainians and Tatars is risible. No appeasement toward Russia 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The contrast between the glum reality of cubicle labor and the captivating rhetoric of Internet liberation, which once seemed daft and risible, doesn’t anymore; now it’s only galling. Everything to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z One woman, who had bought her Southwark council flat as Thatcher and Blair encouraged her to, had been offered a risible sum to get out. At yacht parties in Cannes, councils have been selling our homes from under us 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Barack Obama rightly attacked the risible performance of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whom he said conceived of his job as being “the president’s attorney” rather than “the people’s attorney.” Eric Holder's Legacy: Duplicity, Incompetence, and Obliviousness 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z His claim that it was “ambiguous about what actually happened” in the Atlantic City casino elevator between Ray Rice and his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, during the Valentine’s Day massacre was risible to start with. Roger Goodell should take a page from his father’s playbook 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z While most of academia is straightforwardly risible, this is one area of scholarly endeavour that's resolutely unfunny. That joke isn't funny any more 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z This risible stance does not constitute a positive message for Marylanders. Maryland’s gubernatorial disconnect There’s something not just risibly dishonest about this reg’lar-folk pose, it’s flat-out unseemly too, which is why less disingenuous Republicans, whatever their views, tend to find a defter way to phrase things. Republicans and Science: A Relationship Gone Bad 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The idea of creating a tourist industry in the conservative, hermit-like kingdom is risible to many. Wish you were here 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Worse still, some parts of the Skousen books being given to Heritage Academy’s students — and presented as textbooks, rather than historical documents — also depict American slavery in a racist and risibly sympathetic light. Arizona charter school history book says whites envied “freedom” of slaves 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z They are meant to keep the blood of the masses at a risible level, should they be called upon for serviceable violence. 'Soccer' is a virus invading America. Where are all the rowdy football fans? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The idea that you might want to show people you don't know photographs of your breakfast would once have been risible. Digital confessions: Instagram bores, dog video addicts and property obsessives 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z A tribute in The Herald following Dewar's death described the idea that he would allow himself to be reinvented as "risible". 10 sartorial moments that tell us a lot about politics 2014-04-18T00:33:31Z He added that the idea that senior politicians in Northern Ireland were not aware of such letters was "risible". Bloody Sunday probes a waste - Hain 2014-03-02T04:23:24Z The book, Mr. Wieseltier wrote, is “shallow, derivative, tendentious, imprecise and sometimes risibly inaccurate.” A Bastion for Israel, Seething Inside 2014-03-01T02:20:28Z The scale and coherence of the tableau is confounding not least because of its location in a neighbourhood and city where many say urban planning is often a risible misnomer. Indian street art festival gives a facelift to Delhi 2014-02-27T22:25:41Z Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood called the claims about the weather "risible" and "easily disputed". Morsi absence halts Cairo trial 2014-01-08T15:09:34Z "The junta's judges continue to fabricate risible allegations against the democratically elected president and a number of leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood," the Brotherhood said. Egypt court rulings pave way for Shafik return 2013-12-19T21:36:42Z Lew argued before the strike that the union’s use of the grievance procedure endangered “academic rights” and “academic quality”; the president of the Association of American University Professors dismissed such arguments as “disingenuous and risible…” Tea Party obstruction and liberal hypocrisy, defied: NYU grad students poised to make history 2013-12-09T13:30:00Z Launching a new product with such abject online incompetence is risible for an administration that prided itself on its technological brains. Obamacare Web Site Mocked by, Yes, Insurance Company 2013-11-21T14:45:00.417Z And there is nothing risible about urging people to save. McDonald's puts budgeting on the menu for its employees 2013-07-18T11:30:00Z But Mr Blunkett dismissed the characterisation of his tenure as home secretary as "risible" and called for "a sensible, rational dialogue, not fostering and engendering fear". VIDEO: House of Commons 2013-05-14T15:01:39Z They then offer a risible justification, such as Schmidt did when he said that Google employs 2,000 people in Britain. Economic malpractice: time for a moral crusade against tax scams 2013-05-11T23:03:04Z Yet before the game could be restarted, Fuller decided he needed to have his say and let Griffin know exactly what he thought of his risible defending. The Joy of Six: comedy red cards 2013-04-19T08:30:00Z He attempted a risibly small number of passes. Bayern Munich's Thomas Müller conquers space, football's final frontier 2013-04-05T10:42:11Z Everyone, except anyone worth their salt, is happy with this risible state of affairs. The Fiver 2013-03-13T15:48:57Z Thank you for clarifying the reasons for publishing the risible selection of emails yesterday. The Fiver 2013-03-12T16:32:00Z Today's prizeless letter o'the day: nobody; we only published that risible selection because they were the best of a dreadful lot and we hadn't time to make up anything better. The Fiver: Take A Hike Perspective 2013-03-11T16:16:14Z RT @cszabla: at one time, gentrification at least provided us plenty of risible but creative development names. now, not so much. http:/ ... Pilgrims Killed in Crush to Get Home from Indian Festival 2013-02-10T21:05:20Z Nevertheless, advisors to Hollande said during private briefings this week the notion of further French compromise on CAP is as risible an idea as the UK surrendering its Thatcherian rebate would be. Why the Europeans Don't Want an E.U. Budget Deal 2013-02-08T05:05:22Z The risible roll of Pettersson’s birdie attempt at No. 2 on Friday helped persuade tour officials to suspend the first round at the Plantation Course with the lead group on the eighth hole. Gusts Overshadow Tournament of Champions, and, for the Moment, a Putter Debate 2013-01-07T01:45:49Z The Spaniard certainly made the most of it, rolling around in risible fashion, but Lee Probert had no chance but to show Ameobi a second yellow. Brighton 2-0 Newcastle 2013-01-05T14:31:00Z It is risible that the commission wants a 5% increase in the EU budget, yet nearly 4% of spending is affected by error. EU criticised for wasting funds 2012-11-06T15:51:22Z He points to the sharp drop in Venezuelan bond prices after the election as confirmation of investor worries and says the thought that people truly believed Chavez would lose is “risible.” Venezuela's Strange Stock Market Rally 2012-10-14T21:29:18Z The actual ability of Afghan troops to help—rather than hurt—coalition partners is risible. Afghanistan's Insider War Against U.S. Forces: A Matter of No Trust 2012-10-01T17:35:35Z Europe capitulated feebly, risibly, pathetically: they lost the opening six singles matches of the day 3&2, 4&2, 4&3, 6&5, 3&2 and 5&4. From the Vault: Europe capitulate in Brookline in Ryder Cup 1999 2012-10-01T13:14:26Z Tiger's drive by contrast is a risible clatter alongside the hospitality tents down the left. Ryder Cup: day one – live! 2012-09-28T13:13:34Z It is risible to promote "Sport for All" without the promise of government funding for huge numbers of children who are currently have no way to get started. School sports provision 'patchy' 2012-08-06T16:12:56Z The most risible of the claims made by pro-Olympians is that the Games will inspire the host nation to become fitter. This five-ring circus is only for those in love with white elephants 2012-07-21T23:04:35Z Ten years ago, superhero films were mostly pretty awful – the risible Daredevil, the dull Fantastic Four, the shoddy Catwoman; all of them cynical exercises in cross-platform marketing with little understanding of the source material. When will games be as mainstream as The Dark Knight Rises? 2012-07-18T11:31:57Z The problem's not the plot – it's risible, sure, but these things always are. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor – review 2012-06-30T23:05:27Z These strike me as risible; even if you recognised the name – a one-in-a-thousand chance – you could easily tell that it was a scam. Simon Hoggart's week: An old mugging scam through the wonder of Wi-Fi 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z For the record, he bogeyed the 5th and 6th, taking him to a frankly risible six-over par for the round – a performance as astounding as it was unexpected. Tiger Woods's charge on leaders in final round at US Open falls flat 2012-06-18T00:01:16Z He also described the performances as "wooden" and the dialogue as "often risible". has also been critical, describing the new generation of Ewings as feeling "old and even stodgy". Critics split on 'stodgy' Dallas 2012-06-13T11:22:58Z He says “we’re inches away from no longer having a free economy,” which is risible. What Romney should have learned at Bain 2012-05-21T14:04:39Z It is risible, this episode; Huysmans could display verve and a sort of grim humour when he wished. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The Nazi leaders were, however, largely indifferent to what looked like an academic squabble, and in the end lost interest in Stark and Lenard's risible 'Aryan physics' because they needed a physics that actually worked. Political science 2012-03-07T18:20:03.447Z Many a dialogue have I heard pass between the gossips on their way from the Moravian Chapel, sufficient to excite the risible faculties of a stoic. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z In the humorous illustration of literature his work is seldom risible, but it usually pleases by a combination of neatness and energy. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z A risibly bad fight sequence has as much energy as milk curdling. Lenny Henry Tangles With Twin; Tosca’s Dress: London Theater 2011-12-02T01:01:15Z The most risible instance occurred in 2009 when, in an absurd effort to prevent the spread of swine flu, the government decided to slaughter all pigs in Egypt. Opinion: After Egypt?s Revolution, Christians Are Living in Fear 2011-11-20T02:18:04Z But how to account for a seemingly risible proposal for an ornate, faux-medieval Memorial Bridge, with turrets and towers, instead of the relatively modest, low-arched Memorial Bridge we have now? Critic?s review of ?Unbuilt Washington? at the National Building Museum 2011-11-18T19:40:40Z Such a thing would only excite the risible faculties of an American Protestant; even the male portion of Roman Catholics will not believe such a thing possible. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Europe was in transports of laughter at a country proclaiming human liberty, while clinging to all the traditions of slavery, and her risible faculties were really excusable in face of such a paradox. Abraham Lincoln's Religion 2011-09-03T02:00:20.697Z As each month went by, and the news got worse from Apple, the epic "1984" advertisement that pictured the Mac overthrowing IBM's Big Brother seemed more and more risible. Steve Jobs: The insanely great comeback kid 2011-08-25T13:50:00Z Two seasons ago Sunderland celebrated a home win over Arsenal by embarking on an inexplicably risible run of 14 top-flight matches without a victory in which they took seven points from a possible 42. Premier League preview No15: Sunderland 2011-08-10T07:00:01Z Fundamentally, the Uncharted – re-released together here in anticipation of part three's arrival later this year – are risibly derivative boilerplate. Uncharted Collection ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:23Z The same can't be said for the winner of arguably the most risible Open Championship in the history of the tournament. The Joy of Six: Open nightmares 2011-07-15T09:44:42Z The songs have great comic effect on the stage; particularly those by some of the male characters: and the mistakes which arise from the impositions of Spado are highly risible. The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts 2011-07-09T02:00:12.740Z While that was "real" and this was "risible nonsense," it still seemed "fair" to Republicans that Barack Obama also get in trouble for what they got in trouble for. DOJ inquiry says "New Black Panther" case was handled appropriately 2011-03-30T21:15:00Z An incident so ludicrous could not fail to tickle the fancy of the young courtier; and bring his risible faculties into full play. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z He dictated with calm deliberation, and shewed no risible feeling even when he had made a humorous point. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Ashley did not laugh, though his face was still distended with the risible muscles. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Indeed, men’s telling their own blunders, even blunders recently committed, and laughing at them, a thing not uncommon in very risible dispositions, is utterly inexplicable upon Hobbes’s system. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Whether it was actually better than Offenbach, I am not competent to affirm, but I can answer for it that for all except that charming but risible lady it was a great deal more serious. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Nothing seems to escape their attention, and every few steps offer subjects for remark or laughter; for the risible muscles of the negro are uncommonly excitable. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z Holloway found himself having to justify how he managed his own side to the Premier League, an utterly risible state of affairs. Five things we learned from watching the Premier League this week 2010-12-30T12:42:21Z It was a perfect tragi-comedy; a mixture of the terrible, the risible, the ominous, the rococo. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Indeed it was the very ubiquity of Spam that made it seem so risible to Monty Python. Spam power 2010-12-26T07:57:19Z The rewards for acquiescing to Cuban sensitivities, it said, were “risible: pomp-full dinners and meetings, and for the most pliant, a photo-op with one of the Castro brothers.” Cable Shows Nations Going Easy on Cuba 2010-12-17T23:47:38Z Without the golden tide of talent from 1989-2003 the Waugh doctrine of strategic obnoxiousness would have seemed risible to its intended victims. The Ashes 2010: Australia are on the ropes but don't write them off yet 2010-12-11T22:00:00Z Of course, taking a negative stance on gaming is not in itself a risible endeavour – there are plenty of dark stories to be told about this industry. Panorama to explore 'gaming addiction' 2010-12-02T14:54:00Z All their claims to "fairness" would be risible if their cynicism and their cuts were not so darkly real. George Osborne's cynical welfare cuts 2010-10-26T13:09:00Z Osborne's insistence yesterday that those with the "broadest shoulders" would "bear the greatest burden" and that his cuts would hit the richest hardest is risible. The Bullingdon boys want to finish what Thatcher began 2010-10-20T20:29:00Z After that major, unexpected and somewhat risible bump — not to be revealed here — the drama manages to get back on track as Rob and Megan try to reconcile their issues. | New Jersey: Help for an Autistic Son Means Trouble for a Marriage 2010-10-15T23:02:00Z In fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not,” deadpans David Brent, the risible boss in “The Office”, a satirical television series. Schumpeter: Down with fun 2010-09-16T11:19:00Z The suggestion of some ulterior motive for the affair, particularly ambition, was risible in a way that the widow could not have imagined. David Bezmozgis: “The Train of Their Departure.” 2010-08-02T04:00:00Z This is just another consequence of Spain's risible World Cup record. Germany v Spain - live! 2010-07-07T17:34:00Z And here is Dave Niewert: What was particularly risible was Paul's contention that if these operations polluted their neighbors, why, local judges would surely hold the polluters liable for the damages to their neighbors. Rand Paul goes to the mountaintop 2010-06-15T23:32:00Z I think even this conservative Supreme Court would find that risible as a "key legal defense." Right-wing convinced Kagan will support gay marriage, for some reason 2010-05-10T23:30:00Z The TV commentary was gushing and sometimes risibly hyperbolic, more concerned with promoting the tournament than explaining the action. IPL scandal exposes dark side of neoliberal dream 2010-05-09T12:00:00Z The rebarbative neo-fascist British National party, which had been expecting to win its first-ever seat in parliament, fell risibly short of that goal. Not Their Finest Hour 2010-05-08T00:51:00Z But it is instructive to note that this ad could be a far more effective election broadcast for the Tories than their risible Hung Parliament Party effort. Genius of John Lewis's everywoman ad wins female vote 2010-04-30T17:34:00Z There are many risks, but Mr Lewis’s prediction that Merrill would come to be seen as “a thing of beauty” no longer looks risible. Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: Moynihands full 2010-04-15T10:52:00Z It's as clear a penalty as you could wish to see, and I'm afraid the risible Howard Webb has had another shocker. Aston Villa v Chelsea - live! 2010-04-10T15:30:00Z An even more risible example occurred at, believe it or not, ESPN.com, where outdoor columnist Robert Montgomery unmasked a sinister White House plan to ban recreational fishing in the United States. In today's media, substance is no match for BS 2010-04-08T00:20:00Z But for George Osborne to claim he is going to pay for his reversal of the NICs rise through "efficiency savings" is risible. David Cameron's mixed message | Bill Emmott 2010-04-01T12:00:00Z China needs to be given time to reduce its dependence on exports and build its domestic spending, running at risibly low levels. If the US declares economic war on China, we should all tremble | Will Hutton 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z Dispensing with a third-man might be an established trend, but as the vast majority of boundaries scooted off in that direction all morning, the failure to plug the gap became risible. Grim England make slow progress 2010-03-21T11:13:00Z Risk management was risible, with risk limits raised whenever they were breached and dodgy investments excluded from stress tests. The Lehman report: Beancounters in a bind 2010-03-18T11:42:00Z Professor Dwork said Mr. Krupp’s research was “amateurish, worse than amateurish — risible.” Wartime Pope Has a Huge Fan: A Jewish Knight 2010-03-08T08:20:00Z He delighted in seeing the contortions of the risible muscles which were uniformly on duty in all proper circles when James Smith was present. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution If, indeed, such objects did occupy the place under the eyes of the monks at their devotions, they must have served admirably to train the risible muscles to self-command. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations Nevertheless, it is not easy to repress a risible emotion when we picture to ourselves a party of weak brethren sitting round a table to see if they can get the devil into it. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Each laughing face in Hogarth's print exhibits a different mode or a different stage of the risible paroxysm. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Certainly there is a large amount of jocularity in the familiar writings of Keats—often a quick perception of the ridiculous or the risible, sometimes a telling jest or jeu d’esprit. Life of John Keats The poor fellow uttered these sentiments with such earnestness, that my risible emotions were converted into pity. A Morning's Walk from London to Kew But on the risible organs of the French purgative medicines operate violently; and the favorite weapon of their medical service, primitive in shape and exaggerated in dimensions, is a property indispensable to every theatre. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 That trio of Chopin's Funeral March played in C and declared as a citation from the celebrated mazurka of Schubert does touch the rib risible. Ivory Apes and Peacocks King still moves the risible muscles of his readers. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Some passages excite tears, whilst certain high-sounding sentences, with meaning insignificant, are irresistibly risible. The Grecian Daughter Are you not aware that the most risible imp could hardly laugh at all the contents of the Bible? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He sat down and wept, wept as if his heart would strain and crack; and then the situation poking him in the risible rib he laughed until Luga herself relaxed. Melomaniacs I have in my lifetime laughed till I nearly became spasmodic; but never were my risible muscles put to greater tension than upon this occasion. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. They excite our risible emotions, while they are reducing their adversary to contempt—otherwise they would not be distinguished from gross slanderers. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors He fatigues me with his perpetual disquiet and his uneasy appeals to my risible or sentimental faculties. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges He was indeed the soul of mirth, good-humour, and kindly feelings towards others; he even felt kindly towards the first lieutenant, who persecuted him for his risible propensities. The Pirate, and The Three Cutters Which very probably the philosopher had in his head, when he defined man a risible animal. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness When the School for Scandal was first performed, Mr. Cumberland sat in the front of the stage box with the most complete apathy; its wit and humor never affected his risible muscles. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Other writers in 1782, however, exerted their risible muscles much more vigorously than Malone did. Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) The logical concatenation of this speech was not so apparent but that it touched all the risible nerves of the party; and Miss Caruthers could not understand why all three laughed so heartily. Nobody The young man made an heroic effort to control his risible muscles, and with twinkling eyes he pointed at the melamed. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story Seldom or never had the risible nerves of the burly backwoodsmen on board the Ploughboy steamer, been so enormously tickled as by the discovery of this Yankee trick. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 "Independence!" said Mrs. Thayer, with an air half curious, half confounded, which was a severe trial to Dolly's risible muscles. The End of a Coil She provided her, at a risible charge, with succulent meals. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol "Is it nice?" enquired the lady, with such an expression of doubt and scruple that the risible nerves of the others could not stand it, and there was a general burst of laughter. Nobody Jabez found his risible faculties sorely disturbed by this manner of speech. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Whatever the object was, it appeared to excite the risible faculties of the negro: for, distant as he was, they could distinctly hear him laughing. The Tiger Hunter I received an answer in the affirmative, the solemnity of which was too much, first, for the risible faculties of my young companion, and then for my own. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II In a letter to his father, he apologises for listlessness and stupidity by illness, and says, "that he does not come up to the definition of man as a risible animal." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Poor Willie, being of a powerfully risible nature, found it hard to contain himself on hearing his own words of the previous evening re-echoed thus unexpectedly. Fighting the Flames “Oh, Sam ’ll explain all about his bizness,” replied Tom, laughing again, the ridiculous nature of the whole thing appealing strongly to his risible faculties. The Island Treasure Wit, as Lyly here understood it, had nothing of the risible in it; for it meant to him little more than a graceful handling of obvious themes. John Lyly "Our risible faculties are not always under our control." Molly Bawn Unable longer to restrain his laughter, the Italian broke forth into one of those hearty peals which terminate only when the risible faculties are completely exhausted. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators “Besides, you know, nothing’s perfect in this world, father,” said Benjy, with a wink at Butterface, who, having acute risible tendencies, exploded. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole She seemed to enjoy a laugh so much that he exerted all his powers to tickle her risible faculties, and dwelt long and graphically on his meeting with the irascible old gentleman in the lane. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines Being a good-humoured fellow, and of a risible nature, the alternations were frequent. Ungava Quashy had a habit, when his risible faculties were only gently tickled, of shutting his eyes, throwing back his head, opening his great mouth wide, and indulging in a silent laugh. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America Mrs Stoutley had by this time risen to a heroic frame, and spoke poetically, which accounts for her ascribing risible powers to cottages. Rivers of Ice Even Tumbler took advantage of the occasion to give vent to another howl, which, having something of the risible in it, was tolerated. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew He was indeed the soul of mirth, good-humour, and kindly feelings towards others; he even felt kindly towards the first-lieutenant, who persecuted him for his risible propensities. The Pirate And the boy, unable to control his risible faculties, burst into a hearty laugh, which died away in a chuckle of genuine merriment. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life The Doctor directed a glance at Glyn, and then said sternly: “Have I said anything, Mr Severn, to excite your risible muscles?” Glyn Severn's Schooldays He had caught one glance of his hostess's face; and, behind the scenes as he was, that had been so nearly too much for his risible faculties that he dared not hazard another. Belles and Ringers The figure of the man was dimly risible; the women were on their porch, but not visible in the deep shadow of its roof, but we heard the elder woman's voice. Chapters from My Autobiography I answer that, What belongs to one cannot be said of another, unless they are both the same; thus "risible" can be predicated only of man. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition If ghosts have risible faculties, how Machiavelli must laugh, watching us from the Elysian Fields! Infelice Whether both parties during all these proceedings could avoid moving a risible muscle at one another, our grave authority records not. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Strange is it how, in the very middle of the most dramatic situation, a little thought will push open the lid of its own little brain-cell and creep out to touch our risible nerve. The Hawk of Egypt At length, by the enormous exertions the last duty imposed upon me, I sunk into a hopeless state of cachinnatory impotence: my risible muscles refused to perform their office, and I lost mine. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 As Wenus approached opposition, Dr. Jelli of Guava set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the intelligence of a huge explosion of laughing gas moving risibly towards the earth. The War of the Wenuses Were my risible faculties exercised?—you ask me. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 Those dark days were not without their humours withal; and there was a piquancy in the very imperviousness of our risible faculties to their correct appreciation. The Siege of Kimberley Miss Brindle-mew was very well contented with Mr Jenkison, and gave him two or three ogles, accompanied by a most risible distortion of the countenance which she intended for a captivating smile. Headlong Hall There the expression of ill-humour and disgust were so strongly depicted that she could not longer repress her risible emotions, but gave way to a violent fit of laughter. Marriage When he had recovered himself a little from this risible convulsion he observed that his father and his grandfather had cut down cocoa-nut trees in considerable numbers without the slightest remorse or fear. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden We have just been exercising the risible muscles again, though from a very different cause, and one which, according to common custom, ought to draw forth symptoms of a lachrymose nature. Views a-foot Whether it was that the revels of our risible faculties were ultimately attributed to the cattle-stealing of Wednesday night, an energetic assault was suddenly opened on Kenilworth. The Siege of Kimberley At one time the fulness of an almost bursting heart was ready to pour forth in bitter denunciation—then the miserable absurdity of the thing, rushing into my mind, would excite my risible propensities. A Visit to the United States in 1841 The ubiquity of this red cab, and the influence it exercised over the risible muscles of justice itself, was perfectly astonishing. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Observe how near he edges on our race; What human tricks! how risible of face! The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 It was, however, his laugh: for his first three years, at least, I imagine, must have been one continual fit of crying; and his muscles have never yet been able to recover a risible tone. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 It was well for him, however, that he kept his Irish risible muscles in order, and that no courtier could guess his thoughts—a smile would have lost him his reputation. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 His risible faculties being on one occasion so violently excited by certain obscene jests, he fell from his seat, and struck his head with such violence against the ground that he died. Books Fatal to Their Authors This ridiculous farce excited my risible faculties, and provoked a laugh, when I replied, Our intentions were simply travelling; we wished to see the country of Ugahden, and pass on to Zanzibar. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile Sophy, in the simplicity of her heart, had told all, and had set my father's risible propensities in full action. The Crayon Papers In the streets their risible mood gave way to a self-conscious propriety that was particularly evident in Miriam’s bearing. The History of Mr. Polly But, in truth, the mental toilet of most of us is as defective and almost as risible as was that of this savage Court. Obiter Dicta As for Arthur, the scene was too much for his risible nerves, and he fairly roared with laughter, whilst even Lady Bellamy went as near to it as she ever did. Dawn His muzzle projects dog-monkey fashion, and is adorned with a regular set of sharp-pointed alligator teeth, which he presents to full view as constantly as his very ticklish risible faculties become excited. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile The very idea of such a project is to me infinitely risible. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century They watched him with a kind of suppressed excitement and became risible with his every word and gesture. The History of Mr. Polly The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons A man of position appearing intoxicated will always make a disagreeable impression on us; but a drunken driver, sailor, or carter will only be a risible object. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller He stared—he almost laughed, notwithstanding the reverence due to the Castellane, and his own insensibility to risible emotions. The Betrothed Miss Port and myself had, afterwards, an extremely risible evening with Colonels Goldsworthy, Wellbred, and Manners the rest were summoned away to the king, or retired to their own apartments. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 At such times the captain glared fiercely at the ex-pilot, who, being of a weak nature, was unable, despite his anxiety, to give his risible faculties that control which the solemnity of the occasion demanded. Many Cargoes This turgid and risible analogy deteriorated further as the Kosovar Velvet was stained by the blood of innocents. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters The physician smiled, mine host smiled; it was impossible to suppress the risible faculties. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Both in text and performance the author fully attained the object of his work -- that of thoroughly exercising our risible muscles. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 I took the earliest moment in my power to quit the room and the reproach with which he looked at my exit, for leaving him to such a tête-à-tête, was quite risible. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 Both in text and performance the author fully attained the object of his work — that of thoroughly exercising our risible muscles. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 There was nothing very funny in this speech, but a good deal of risible matter had accumulated in Tim's diaphragm during its delivery which he had to get rid of, and he did. The Red Acorn He is the most risible misanthrope I ever met with. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker It is the first thing struck in us when we land on the Continent: our risible faculties are generally active all through the tour. The Egoist Indeed, it was apparently with the utmost difficulty that the young clergyman could restrain himself from giving liberty to his risible faculties. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family I think, of all the strains upon my risible faculties during my life, this answer provoked the greatest, and the remainder of the faculty were clearly in the same condition. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 |
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