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  • The coolest thing I've done, at least on paper, is graduate from Yale Law School, something thirteen-year-old J.D. Vance would have considered ludicrous.†   (source)
  • Ludicrous.†   (source)
  • Ludicrous.†   (source)
  • That's a ludicrous idea and I'll never okay it.†   (source)
  • Well, Annie, a government project to build a similar platform from the ground up would be ludicrous, and costly, and, well, impossible.†   (source)
  • Even when my father was a young man, there were so many lakes and pothole ponds in Zebulon County that the idea of building a swimming pool would have been ludicrous, but now every town of any size either had built one or wanted to, and the county newspapers cited these and the three table-flat nine-hole golf courses as "some of Zebulon County's numerous recreational facilities."†   (source)
  • And the more she thought about it, the more firmly convinced Alex became that justice couldn't be done without her involvement, the more ludicrous it seemed to suggest she was not the best judge for the job.†   (source)
  • That is what makes what Ronald Reagan would say—two years later, in 1969—so ludicrous: that the Vietnam protests were "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."†   (source)
  • In spite of their twisted, ludicrous impressions of East Enders, the concern and the tears in their eyes had been genuine.†   (source)
  • It was so ludicrous I wanted to cry.†   (source)
  • That concept was absolutely ludicrous.†   (source)
  • And still there had been no proper rehearsal, and the twins could not act, or even speak, and Lola had stolen Briony's rightful role, and nothing could be managed, and it was hot, ludicrously hot.†   (source)
  • But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.†   (source)
  • It was a literal translation of Ruchi lokathinde Rajavu, which sounded a little less ludicrous than Emperors of the Realm of Taste.†   (source)
  • The idea of my leading a unit into combat is ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy onto the scene to make it work for him.†   (source)
  • And this ludicrous fascination with Cedric Diggory.†   (source)
  • I've read The Zaniest Summer four times, and the ludicrous situations still make me laugh.†   (source)
  • He said there had always been a contingency plan in case something of the sort occurred, but it was never taken seriously because the threat of an attack seemed ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It just seems so incredibly ludicrous: I am a battered wife.†   (source)
  • He had an enormous, colorful, ludicrous, wonderful personality—and it seemed impossible that it was gone forever.†   (source)
  • Your Imperial Viciousness, this is ludicrous.†   (source)
  • And anyway, the idea that we would celebrate anything right now is so ludicrous I don't continue.†   (source)
  • Such an outcry over other people's crimes is truly ludicrous — as if the enemy didn't know about the art treasures we've appropriated and exported from Poland, or those we have destroyed in Russia.†   (source)
  • The regime was going insane, issuing the most ludicrous regulations.†   (source)
  • But Gogol sounds ludicrous to his ears, lacking dignity or gravity.†   (source)
  • The very idea went against everything she believed; the idea that the future could be foretold was simply ludicrous.†   (source)
  • In a war zone, the QRF's rules of engagement were ludicrous.†   (source)
  • The second hand on the wall clock made its steady, ludicrous progress: sluff, sluff, sluff...Afraid of what, exactly?†   (source)
  • And he seemed to me to push luxury upon his father to an almost ludicrous point.†   (source)
  • The way you regard me is ludicrous.†   (source)
  • This question seemed ludicrous to me.†   (source)
  • What he was suggesting was completely ludicrous.†   (source)
  • The user can select three breast sizes: improbable, impossible, and ludicrous.†   (source)
  • The image of Annie Wilkes as an African idol out of She or King Solomon's Mines was both ludicrous and queerly apt.†   (source)
  • "This situation is ludicrous," she said with a smile.†   (source)
  • It's ludicrous, especially after the quiet scene at Grandfather's that I witnessed on Sunday.†   (source)
  • I was sure Osten had made better stick figures as a child, but since this show seemed to either be highlighting their strengths in a ludicrous way or shrugging off their weaknesses as comedy, it ended up being quite charming.†   (source)
  • He still studied alone in their room all the time, spoke like a science teacher, and required ludicrously small amounts of sleep.†   (source)
  • He looks ludicrous.†   (source)
  • I decided therefore to occupy myself with some further tasks in the billiard room, assuming she would after a while see the ludicrousness of her position and leave.†   (source)
  • Since the rain had stopped, on the day Grace mouthed her first words, it had been ludicrously warm.†   (source)
  • Slowly, Susan grasped the implication, but it was ludicrous.†   (source)
  • (She pops it on her head to prove it to her grandson, and the hat is ludicrous and considerably oversized) RUTH: Hot dog†   (source)
  • He went on with his elbows flapping and he grew small on the plain before them and more ludicrous yet.†   (source)
  • Pap Himes looked at her, at the beads, and gave the fierce, inarticulate, ludicrously futile growl of a thwarted, perplexed animal.†   (source)
  • In any other circumstances, he would have dismissed it as ludicrous and impractical, but as it was, he accepted the plan as the only course of action that could resolve the standoff without further delay.†   (source)
  • AR those prosperous, solid men out there would discover now that they had elected a ludicrous waif.†   (source)
  • I looked up through the treetops, ludicrously hopeful.†   (source)
  • Ridiculous and even ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It might seem ludicrous to address as large and intractable a problem as white-collar crime through the life of a bagel man.†   (source)
  • 'I got this tomato from Colonel Cathcart,' he said, and was struck by how ludicrous his explanation sounded.†   (source)
  • You see some things there that you just don't see anywhere else in the world, ludicrous things and frightening things and amazingly sad things.†   (source)
  • "I kneeled on the bed in there, in the laundry bedroom, and put my arms up like I saw in a comic book"—one night I heard monsters coming through the kitchen, and I had promised the god in the movies, the one the Mexicans and Filipinos have, as in "God Bless America," that I would not read comic books anymore if he would save me just this once; I had broken that promise, and I needed to tell all this to my mother too—"and in that ludicrous position asked for a horse."†   (source)
  • A woman in a ludicrous hat complete with feathers trails behind her.†   (source)
  • "Once they were mighty," Xaro agreed, "but now they are as ludicrous as those feeble old soldiers who boast of their prowess long after strength and skill have left them.†   (source)
  • He was ludicrously angry; he always looked like his shiny bright pink head might explode at any moment.†   (source)
  • A firefight would be ludicrous.†   (source)
  • Surely her example spurred me on to pursue what now seems ludicrous, but at the time was the height of my post-Manzanar ambitions.†   (source)
  • Possibly, Adams was as ludicrous as Maclay portrayed him.†   (source)
  • He sat secure at the junction of all paths, seeing clearly down each, while he, Bigwig, ludicrous in his efforts to measure up to him as an enemy, clambered clumsily and ignorantly through the undergrowth, betraying himself with every movement.†   (source)
  • John said it matter-of-factly, but it sounded more ludicrous out loud than it had inside his head.†   (source)
  • It was also ludicrous.†   (source)
  • He'd made bold statements and fired off thundering salvos, but standing here on the edge of the jungle, with cicadas screeching all around and the hot afternoon sun beating on his shoulders, the notion that the genesis of a worldwide virus attack lay hidden in this abandoned concrete plant struck him as ludicrous.†   (source)
  • This is ludicrous.†   (source)
  • They say, 'Of course not, it's ludicrous to be polite to a computer!'†   (source)
  • Yet despite this he called the school by a name that didn't make much sense, in fact sounded a little ludicrous in view of its actual nature.†   (source)
  • Second nature made him remove the money, knowing it was ludicrous to do so; he had a small fortune on him.†   (source)
  • But helping the defense toward this end seemed ludicrous.†   (source)
  • There was no blood in the room when they found him; he appeared almost ludicrous, sitting there with a clean, dry hole in his head.†   (source)
  • That was such a ludicrous question that I felt myself smile.†   (source)
  • Back at Del Mar, officials supported Howard, stating that the accusations that Seabiscuit had been restrained, or that Howard or Smith had told Woolf to do so, were ludicrous.†   (source)
  • The clarinet and the glockenspiel, unknowingly, would for a moment or two engage in an apparently random duet that could have put the musicians of La Scala to shame, and then go their separate ludicrous ways.†   (source)
  • It was ludicrous.†   (source)
  • She went ludicrously red.†   (source)
  • Ludicrously, he thought it important that his tears not be misconstrued as an acceptance of the cruelty with which the universe was ruled.†   (source)
  • Within a week, by his charm and wit, he would have made my mother's behaviour more ludicrous than his—a bomb to disturb a butterfly, till he seemed the more sane of the two.†   (source)
  • Lee looked, saw the ludicrous man in the lustrous hat and the wide gray coat.†   (source)
  • Today, this sounds ludicrous.†   (source)
  • She must have been forty at the time, nearly twice my age, and I can't say I held deep feelings for her (as that would have been ludicrous).†   (source)
  • They'd have needed to uproot Mrs. Angell and bring her along—a ludicrous notion.†   (source)
  • Then it struck me as ludicrous that at this late stage I should walk with caution, and I went therefore to the whitewashed cottage on the fringes of the town, expectant, carrying a garland of roses and jasmine to welcome him, and a lime for good luck.†   (source)
  • I was wrapped around his back like a ludicrous, outsized papoose.†   (source)
  • There was a ludicrous moment when they lost the way and Kiever was rude to a porter.†   (source)
  • The idea of wolves not only eating, but actually thriving and raising their families on a diet of mice was so at odds with the character of the mythical wolf that it was really too ludicrous to consider.†   (source)
  • Those ludicrous manuscripts I had read were somehow cautionary, showing me how sad was all ambition—especially when it came to literature.†   (source)
  • Dour, bearded, hair unshorn or ludicrously cropped, they looked like ghost-town characters in a Western movie, except they were not so well fed as Hollywood extras, and their clothing, flowered sports shirts, shorts, or slacks, plaid or straw-peaked caps, was incongruous.†   (source)
  • It woke in Peter an instant response: a like appreciation of the ludicrous.†   (source)
  • I am afraid, Victor Ippolitovich, our discussion has touched on something personal; it would be ludicrous and embarrassing to go into it.†   (source)
  • She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous.†   (source)
  • While Reich was laughing at the ludicrous robot search for Marcus Graham, his top brass was greeting the Continental Tax Examiner, an Esper 2, who had arrived for a long delayed check on Monarch Utilities & Resources' books.†   (source)
  • The man said, in a halting ludicrous manner, "I ...want ...water."†   (source)
  • The balding wizard gaped, his head turning ludicrously from one Reg Cattermole to the other.†   (source)
  • But Harry isn't going to keep it!" said Hermione, as though the idea were ludicrous.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps you ought to try on the hat, Hermione," said Ron, nod-ding toward the ludicrous headdress.†   (source)
  • The closeness of a familiar face was not ludicrous, it was wondrous.†   (source)
  • Would it be absolutely ludicrous to try to make out?†   (source)
  • It's ludicrous, her story, but no more ludicrous than our story.†   (source)
  • I came to check on the building," Zeitoun said, smiling, knowing how ludicrous it sounded.†   (source)
  • Or that a new generation would see all this as ludicrous, oppressive, utterly out of control.†   (source)
  • They were serious and ludicrously stylish.†   (source)
  • With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea.†   (source)
  • There was Annie's ludicrous gamesmanship.†   (source)
  • It's so ludicrous, that of all things it's money that should be an issue for me.†   (source)
  • He flapped after the girls, looking ludicrously batlike, like his older self.†   (source)
  • Cathy or Jenny or Megan or whatever, don't be ludicrous.†   (source)
  • The kind of ludicrous option available before children.†   (source)
  • Saying it aloud, it sounded even more ludicrous.†   (source)
  • Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and the idea of fighting is ludicrous.†   (source)
  • I know it sounds ludicrous, but we may have a very serious problem.†   (source)
  • The entire Life Drawing class would be viewed as pretentious, and also ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It was ludicrous, I know, but in my half-crazed state, I believed it.†   (source)
  • All in all, the garb made the wench look ludicrous.†   (source)
  • A ludicrous suggestion, of course, but one that was now undoubtedly all but assured in their minds.†   (source)
  • I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing.†   (source)
  • It seemed a ludicrous place to live for a day or two, let alone for centuries.†   (source)
  • And this thought was so ludicrous, so completely unreal, that I knew it just had to be true.†   (source)
  • This is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard" Heat flared up Tom's back.†   (source)
  • It's just ludicrous!" she sputtered, but she let me take it.†   (source)
  • In fact, to my eyes, the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree.†   (source)
  • That's right hopeful," observed the man, with a plainly intentional, dry ludicrousness.†   (source)
  • I would have struck a stranger watching this ludicrous, quasi-athletic event dumb.†   (source)
  • I heard gurgle up in my voice a sob, vaguely ludicrous.†   (source)
  • He heard himself talking and it all sounded so ludicrously improbable.†   (source)
  • In all this silence and emptiness, the slightest tricks of his mind took on ludicrous importance.†   (source)
  • We've done enough to him already, and I think this meeting is ludicrous.†   (source)
  • The masks Barbara picked out ranged from the ludicrous to the macabre.†   (source)
  • Now we were ludicrous, like actors in blackface.†   (source)
  • He would walk up to me and make these ludicrous faces.†   (source)
  • This is the most ludicrous scene I've ever been involved in, I was telling myself.†   (source)
  • The month of September was a ludicrous month and I was a ludicrous person.†   (source)
  • It was insane, ludicrous, and frightening.†   (source)
  • He thinks he's skinny enough to fit through — semi-starvation has its advantages — though if he gets stuck he'll die an agonizing and also ludicrous death.†   (source)
  • 'George Meara, you're an old fart,' Aunt Evvie said, giving the word a juicy Maine resonance which built it into something that was both cataclysmic and ludicrous: faaaaaat She began working her way back to the house, leaning on her Boston Post cane, which had been given her at a Town Hall ceremony for no more than the stupid accomplishment of growing old successfully.†   (source)
  • Level Seven, Department of Magical Games and Sports, incorporating the British and Irish Quidditch League Headquarters, Official Gobstones Club and Ludicrous Patents Office.†   (source)
  • It was a ludicrous idea, to travel fifteen hundred miles when her blood relatives lived fifty miles from New Orleans, but she'd run to Yuko's house before and could do so again.†   (source)
  • However, the legend of which you speak is such a very sensational, even ludicrous tale—" But the whole class was now hanging on Professor Binns's every word.†   (source)
  • We'll see how ludicrous it is.†   (source)
  • It's forty-ten, forty-ten to Slytherin and Pucey has the Quaffle Harry could hear Luna's ludicrous lion hat roaring amidst the Gryffindor cheers and felt heartened; only thirty points in it, that was nothing, they could pull back easily.†   (source)
  • Jordan had to give Cormier credit-she somehow managed to stare Diana down as if the prosecutor hadn't just presented a valid and disturbing fact, but had said something absolutely ludicrous instead.†   (source)
  • That's ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It's ludicrous.†   (source)
  • But Henri believes the Mogadorians are plotting to take over Earth, and I must admit, even though the theory in Sam's publication is ludicrous, at its most basic level there might be something there.†   (source)
  • Weren't you under the ludicrous impression I was just acting from a guilty conscience, and I was going to bolt as soon as the plane doors opened?†   (source)
  • Of course, it would be rather ludicrous for you and Xander to have a formal port-to-port communication.†   (source)
  • He tried to teach my parents to swim, but he never got them to go beyond wading up to their knees at the beach and making ludicrous round motions with their arms, which, if they were practising the breast-stroke, made them look as if they were walking through a jungle, spreading the tall grass ahead of them, or, if it was the front crawl, as if they were running down a hill and flailing their arms so as not to fall.†   (source)
  • I had a brief, ludicrous picture of the old, rather heavy woman banging a SIM calie over the head with her ubiquitous black purse.†   (source)
  • He was compared to role models in the American media who had accepted gaol rather than reveal their sources, and Blomkvist was described as a hero in such ludicrously flattering terms that he was quite embarrassed.†   (source)
  • This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations.†   (source)
  • Until that moment, there was still something ludicrous about having a familiar face so close to one's own.†   (source)
  • Utterly nonplussed, he looked around at the others, who were now laughing at the expression on Ron's face and at the ludicrously prolonged laughter of Luna Lovegood, who was rocking backwards and forwards, clutching her sides.†   (source)
  • Ron caught Harry's eye and grinned; Harry knew that he was remembering the ludicrous headdress they had seen on their visit to Xenophilius.†   (source)
  • Hermione had lisped and pranced and pirouetted through their childhoods, showing off at every available moment with no thought—so her scowling, silent older sister believed—for how ludicrous and desperate she appeared.†   (source)
  • That ludicrous diary entry?†   (source)
  • Here were the flapper dresses of her teenage years, ludicrous, limp, sexless things they looked now, and though one bore wine stains and another a burn hole from her first cigarette, she could not bring herself to turn them out.†   (source)
  • From the middle of the crowd, Noelle Hawthorne began moving forward, her triplets affixed, one on a hip, the other two clinging to her skirt, all looking ludicrously tiny to a man who spent no time around children.†   (source)
  • The graph's smiley-facedness indicated that Colin had not been dumped by III but had dumped her, which was ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It was ludicrous to believe that Renata had not heard about Shay's death sentence—the news would have reached up here, even in rural Bethlehem.†   (source)
  • It was ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It's a ludicrous idea.†   (source)
  • The situation was ludicrous.†   (source)
  • His were a summer blue, vivid and bright enough to make you suspect colored contacts, as ludicrous as she knew Luke would have found such things.†   (source)
  • Belaquo Bonebreaker and Goghor the Giant might serve as Hizdahr's shields, but the notion of either leading an army into battle was so ludicrous that the old knight almost smiled.†   (source)
  • Another seven messages were those so-called Nigeria letters from the widow of the former head of a bank in Abu Dhabi offering her ludicrous sums of money if she would only assist with a small sum of start-up money, and other such junk.†   (source)
  • Then the heralds summoned another singer; Collio Quaynis of Tyrosh, who had a vermilion beard and an accent as ludicrous as Symon had promised.†   (source)
  • Ludicrous!†   (source)
  • This may sound ludicrous, and even execrable under the circumstances, but I was youthful and naive enough that I possessed much more of a kind of hard focusing than any circumspection, which one may argue has remained with me for my whole life.†   (source)
  • And it's ludicrous; she's no killer.†   (source)
  • Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of sculpture, so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that just to associate the two sounds ludicrous.†   (source)
  • British prejudice toward the French struck Abigail as ludicrous, now that she had lived in France, and made her realize how greatly she disliked prejudice in any form.†   (source)
  • And the radio, too-assuming that it was they who had stolen it, which was something Dewey still hesitated to do, for it appeared to him "ludicrously inconsistent" with the magnitude of the crime and the manifest cunning of the criminals, and "inconceivable" that these men had entered a house expecting to find a money-filled safe, and then, not finding it, had thought it expedient to slaughter the family for perhaps a few dollars and a small portable radio.†   (source)
  • That's ludicrous, but typical of the primitive reaction of an American "moralist" given a few key words.†   (source)
  • There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.†   (source)
  • Worse: although I'm afraid of this idea and ashamed of it, and although in the daytime I find it melodramatic and ludicrous and refuse to believe in it, I also cherish it†   (source)
  • He knew that any moment Orr would come walking into the tent with big, glistening, rain-soaked eyes, cheeks and buck teeth, looking ludicrously like a jolly New England oysterman in a yellow oilskin rain hat and slicker numerous sizes too large for him and holding up proudly for Yossarian's amusement a great dead codfish he had caught.†   (source)
  • One really cannot guess the reason for these absurd allegations — unless, quite ludicrously, they originate from that brief, entirely insignificant few weeks in the early thirties when Mrs Carolyn Barnet came to wield an unusual influence over his lordship.†   (source)
  • He could have loved her for that, but if truth be told the Stark girl's eyes were far away, as if she had not even seen the ludicrous riders loping toward her.†   (source)
  • Forgive me if I find that ludicrous.†   (source)
  • It's not ludicrous to him.†   (source)
  • Moon Boy mounted his stilts and strode around the tables in pursuit of Lord Tyrell's ludicrously fat fool Butterbumps, and the lords and ladies sampled roast herons and cheese-and-onion pies.†   (source)
  • It was a ludicrous question.†   (source)
  • I felt ludicrously white.†   (source)
  • It was clear that he felt their very presence in his home to be a violation: this was conveyed by his carriage, almost ludicrously stiff, and by his voice, harsh and vindictively polite.†   (source)
  • He would never know the particulars, but sooner or later he would know how it was, when he grew past imagining himself unique and, more ludicrous yet, tragic.†   (source)
  • But don't you think this is the most ludicrous—" Then the pattern of her psyche hit him and he spun around.†   (source)
  • With what he knew himself was ludicrous premeditation, he raised his martini and dashed it, glass and all, to the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • Then, relaxing his grasp, he blurted out something which, in its overlay of ethnic anxiety, she perceived to be a ludicrous replica of Wilhelmine's own squeamish concern that morning.†   (source)
  • He was dressed as before, in the same motheaten black suit, but he had on a ludicrous derby now, and his face (horrible!)†   (source)
  • The scarf, of checkered green and made of cheap prison-stitched muslin, concealed her skull and its ludicrous frizzy locks, growing back in unsightly clumps after having been shorn to the roots exactly six months before.†   (source)
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