facetiousness in a sentence
Examples
- Requesting checkuser to be certain, as usual . ( Apologies for the post-Thanksgiving facetiousness . ) "'Lo dicono a Signa . "'21 : 02, 25 November 2011 ( UTC)
- Built around grade-school facetiousness, cheerfully crass lines and flip-the-script situations in which Lincoln is the dunce and his servant the brains, Desmond Pfeiffer was uncomfortably hilarious, pointedly irreverent and naively misguided.
- But it speaks to the one element that, all facetiousness aside, doesn't seem to have made the transition from the'70s to the current run of gross-out wonders : a genuine sense of subversiveness.
- In his last years, Kerouac realized that his kind of confessional, all-defenses-dropped, sacrificial romanticism had been decisively eclipsed by a new mood of skepticism, mockery and facetiousness, what we today call the post-modern style.
- It's the enjoyment factor that's missing from this latest venture, which uses some of the earlier film's cast _ Jason Statham and former soccer player Vinnie Jones _ while ladling on a facetiousness that has lost its charm.
- Sandler, with his squirrelly-eyed facetiousness, and Wayans, who carries on like Denzel Washington's naughty little brother, glint off each other as they josh their way through the dumber-than-dumb story of a singularly embattled friendship.
- And yet, this memoir by the author of " London Fields " and " The Information " is crammed with his own college-age missives, even though Amis himself derides their " tally-ho facetiousness ."
- This is not facetiousness nor petulance nor claim of " ownership ", but simply that " of X " will be too narrow, ambiguous and awkward to be able to hold what I hoped it would hold, and I think it should hold.
- In it, the author of the sketch on Wagstaffe ( presumably Levett ) is referred to as " an eminent Physician, no less valued for his skill in his profession, which he showed in several useful treatises, than admired for his Wit and Facetiousness in Conversation ."
- Adam Trimingham, reviewing the 4th edition of " The Cheeky Guide to Brighton " in The Argus found it to be generally well-informed, but complained that'after 300 pages, the relentless facetiousness is grating . . . The guide is nothing if not biased.