ludicrous

Many of them, in increasing panic, came running with water in their hats in a ludicrous effort.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

I know they think they do, and yet it ’ s ludicrous, it's humorous, and sad.

* Dr. Smart-Allick: genteel, but ludicrous and criminal, headmaster of Narkover.

For comic effect, he used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to liberate the reader from cultural conformity.

" As critic Jack Tinker noted in the Daily Mail: " The performance is not so much downright bad as heroically ludicrous.

Alan Turing had been awarded an OBE six months earlier and Newman felt that it was inadequate recognition of Turing's contribution to winning the war, referring to it as the " ludicrous treatment of Turing ".

Examples in the song start out reasonable and start to get more ludicrous as the song goes on.

For example, in Miles Gloriosus, the titular “ braggart soldier ” Pyrgopolynices only shows his vain and immodest side in the first act, while the parasite Artotrogus exaggerates Pyrgopolynices ’ achievements, creating more and more ludicrous claims that Pyrgopolynices agrees to without question.

Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy had severely criticized Mr. Bashiruddin Mahmood's theories and the notion of Islamic science in general, calling it ludicrous science.

" This strikes me as ludicrous ", Meyer wrote in TV Guide at the time.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.

In Viz, naturally, they are always absurd, impractical or ludicrous:

Some tips are for ludicrous motives, such as " how to convince neighbours that your house has dry rot ", while others are for ostensibly sensible motives but with ridiculous and impractical suggestions for their application:

One reason why Nigeria may have been singled out is because of the comical, almost ludicrous nature of the promise of West African riches from a Nigerian Prince.

The film was subsequently universally panned by critics but met a receptive late night audience as a curious example of a cult film where all the unintended hilarity came from the overly serious approach, " cheesy " production values and ludicrous plot.

When asked why he appeared on these " ludicrous programmes ," his answer was simple: " Because I meet everybody there.

It's a ludicrous decision ".

But the characters have a weight and reality, as if Almodovar has finally taken pity on them – has seen that although their plights may seem ludicrous, they are real enough to hurt.

As Langham puts it: " The image of a man reading a poem to evoke aesthetic pleasure while a close friend meticulously studies the erection of his hairs may seem ludicrous.

Israel denied all charges against them, calling them " ludicrous.

David travels down to North Carolina to talk to a friend who owns a bird sanctuary about the plan, who initially finds the plan both ludicrous and impossible but also mentions that if no birds reach the sanctuary by November 1, it will be torn down by developers who plan to turn it into a housing development.

The Hippias major ( the authorship of this work by Plato is sometimes doubted ) concerns the question about the beautiful, and purposely puts the knowledge and presumption of Hippias in a ludicrous light.

* Irish bull, a ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statement