silliness

I was the class clown my whole life, and I loved to laugh and be silly.

Physicists had always figured that a quantum theory of gravity came into play only in situations so extreme that they sound silly, such as a star collapsing to the radius of a proton.

Take a break from thinking about the election by learning about the weirdest, silliest, and most shocking stories we could find from political history.

Treating others’ knowledge as your own isn’t as silly as it sounds.

Often surprisingly silly, and more often visceral and grim, Ruthie Fear is, at its core, about changes that may feel familiar to many mountain towns, like environmental decline and growing inequality.

Besides the blatant silliness of it all, it does raise some questions—and not about sex.

Suddenly, collective greatness was sacrificed for individual silliness, with each week marking a Very Special Episode.

Amy Zimmerman on the ridiculous plot, over-the-top tone, and unabashed silliness viewers seem to love.

Yesterday, I wrote about the silliness of requiring a file clerk to have a college degree.

People are hurting, people died, and the time for silliness, debate, and procedural motions is over.

He stared at the vision wonderingly and long, and then he began to laugh with the scorn of soberness and the silliness of drink.

This Dorothy is a thoroughly ingenuous young person, naïvely outspoken to the point of silliness.

That which I defend is the superiority of nature to us: that which I fight against is the conceited silliness of certain persons.

The subject matter is older than Ovid, and how many poems has it led to every silliness, every vulgarity!

In each of its little scallops a family of empty chairs sat facing the stage in solemn silliness.