The plot is so ludicrously convoluted that the actors really need to work to distract us from it. |
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Sporting a ludicrously overgrown walrus moustache, the ebullient forty-something seems to be an attention seeker. |
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The overall story, with its sometimes ludicrously banal dialogue, is solely to blame for this. |
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Hey is it just me, or is her hair ludicrously overdone for someone who just kicks around school and Ramsay Street all day? |
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She always thought that groin pain was a label used by pampered footballers to excuse them from their ludicrously overpaid day job. |
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His face hadn't seen a razor for the best part of a week, for which he ludicrously incurred the wrath of the network commentator. |
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Sadly, the film is being ludicrously overhyped, and thus many may end up feeling a bit let down upon actually seeing it. |
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The heroine takes off to India, where she ludicrously exchanges her laptop for Tibetan incenses. |
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The players ludicrously threatened not to travel to Turkey if their teammate wasn't reinstated. |
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She's just awful in her role as the psychiatrist who ludicrously gets stuck in the precinct. |
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He is that indecent thing, a man whose dreams not only came true ludicrously early but remain in pristine condition. |
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The multiples for emerging market stocks were ludicrously cheap in relation to their North American or European counterparts. |
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The keyboardist loomed like some kind of elder wizard, clad in ludicrously bright long coats. |
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Things should bode well after this ludicrously extreme, but cool, opening sequence. |
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I haven't even begun to talk about where he gets his funding or how ludicrously quick every puzzle is solved. |
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Myself and my friend stood and marvelled at the incredible array of ludicrously attractive nubile women. |
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Or if I do, it's so ludicrously truncated and ineffectual as to be useless. |
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One trillion pounds is a ludicrously, incomprehensibly large figure, but one which means little until understood in context. |
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Given the ludicrously slow tempo and poor pedaling he imposes throughout, he is not even remotely up to the work's complex technical demands. |
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As energy prices soar, it will seem ludicrously wasteful to cart goods halfway round the world. |
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South Morang is a ludicrously boring place which saps you of the will to do anything but turn around and go home. |
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She is a perpetual graduate student writing a thesis on the women in the Iliad, and is ludicrously neurotic in every way. |
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It's a cliche-ridden, preposterous mess, full of ludicrously obvious plot holes. |
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The most ludicrously titled tracks are, perhaps counter-intuitively, also the least memorable. |
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Those two sides have plenty of time to interact due to the ludicrously lax security arrangements. |
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Their sexual repression may have caused them ludicrously to see suggestiveness in the legs of a piano, so that they might cover them up. |
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This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans. |
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A ludicrously ornate 1699 ostensory, 1m high, weighing over 12kg and studded with more than 6,000 diamonds. |
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He was ludicrously cautioned in stoppage time for time-wasting. |
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We have seen that if the ratio of magnetic to gravitational energy is to be as small as inferred from observation, the accumulation length must be ludicrously long. |
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I certainly do not need my beach time spoilt by the sight of dozens of police ludicrously measuring the spaces occupied by deckchairs, as happened recently. |
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The Barbadian pop singer dove into a shark-filled tank for a fashion shoot, wearing some ludicrously priced swimwear. |
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You may also think that Johnson's bike hire scheme was ludicrously cheap to begin with. |
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And, the two hour time-scale, even more ludicrously, was supposed to save them from a car parking fine in the local car-park! |
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Hence the demand for revolutionary thinking across the government, with the ludicrously short deadline. |
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Nor is it surprising that Europe, in the face of this, is ludicrously divided. |
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Secondly, anti-discrimination provisions are ludicrously wide-ranging and open to abuse. |
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The political elites in most countries conduct their public discourse about EU affairs in a ludicrously short-sighted way. |
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The most important thing to point out about this ludicrously fabulous video is how Britney looks, which is just about flawless. |
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And that ludicrously expensive weddings are the key to lifelong happiness, no matter what happens behind the scenes. |
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Persecuted is a ludicrously mushy political thriller, but the fact that it can find an audience is downright terrifying. |
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The program ludicrously lists the cast alphabetically, thereby throwing the first 20 minutes out the window until you have discovered who everyone is. |
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It's your great advantage that you don't think you can look like her by ludicrously painting your eyebrows and dolling yourself up like a rock star. |
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At a society ball, she was wooed by a ludicrously suave Hungarian count. |
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While I sat up all night in fear of a cracker-nibbling rat, trying to watch TV and ignore the ludicrously loud scratchy noises, I was contemplating my happiness. |
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We are expected to bow down before the divinely written Word, even when that Word famously, ludicrously contradicts itself over and over and over again. |
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Identity cards would also bring to an end the ludicrously haphazard methods that individual organisations now employ to mount their own security checks. |
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Panning for gold seems, initially, a ludicrously easy way of striking it lucky, and Paterson cheerfully admits that there is no great skill involved. |
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The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown. |
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For kleptocratic regimes such as that of Russia venue of last year's ludicrously costly winter Olympics and, on current plans, of the football World Cup in 2018 these are superb opportunities to embezzle public funds. |
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Every Attenborough series is so ludicrously magnificent, shot so well, narrated with such wistful amicability, that the BBC could announce David Attenborough's Life on 4Chan and I'd probably watch it. |
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At a time when most ambitious food in Britain is subserviently French or ludicrously omni-cultural, Blumenthal strikes at distinctly personal and individual, not to say idiosyncratic, notes. |
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Although the delay of 20 months between our assent and eventual accession on 1 January 2007 is ludicrously long, it is too late to have this debate now and our position on this should have been made clear earlier. |
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During Zimbabwe's March election it ludicrously prejudged the outcome as fair and shrank from telling Mr Mugabe's team to abide by a set of principles that SADC had itself laid down some years ago. |
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As with another Gove scheme for a single exam board, and his ludicrously prescriptive first draft of the history curriculum, the O-level idea was summarily dropped. |
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In Secret Agent, moral scruples perturb the decent English while, killer and clown, Hispanic Peter Lorre finds the murder business ludicrously comic. |
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Compared to Elvis, avuncular Bill with his ludicrously contrived kiss curl was a wrinkly. |
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The theory is that by stripping costs to the bone, they are able to offer ludicrously low fares. |
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That the narratives themselves are so ludicrously one-gendered? |
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Whenever a commotion breaks out, we ludicrously set up yet another working group to pacify the public and clean up the political regalia, but the end result in most cases is a delay of decisions and still more anger. |
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Urban population apart, our forecast numbers were ludicrously low, but we managed in our report to say a few useful things about the nearer-term implications of exploding urbanization. |
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