| The quality of the exhibition was not only amateurishly reminiscent of A-level sketch books, but in some places absolutely risible. |
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| The police evidence was risible, the Crown prosecutor a lowbrow bulldog, and the defence counsel out of his depth. |
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| Some have made a career of talking down the Irish economy, but have a risible forecasting record. |
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| The dialogue may be risible and the characters two-dimensional and shallow but, for a while at least, it doesn't matter. |
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| The monies promised to upgrade public services are risible, given the scale of the British economy and the size of its population. |
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| Today, the very idea that you might use the timetable for anything other than as a doorstop is risible. |
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| It is not risible or chauvinistic to believe there are some things a country needs to celebrate. |
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| The story has been simplified to the level of a cartoon, the music is portentous, and the lyrics are more risible than profound. |
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| To the average young whippersnapper of today, this would be most risible, but I care not for the follies of youth. |
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| To a lot of Europeans, these judgements seem almost risible. |
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| But, thanks in great measure to Duff's performance, it manages to be something less risible. |
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| One woman, who had bought her Southwark council flat as Thatcher and Blair encouraged her to, had been offered a risible sum to get out. |
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| The RA's search for echoes of Rubens even when they are very tenuous becomes quite risible. |
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| If we do not get involved any further than this, the idea that the Americans would abandon NORAD and NORAD would cease to exist is risible. |
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| His political views could be contested but the notion that he would actually give information to the British about fellow comrades is literally risible. |
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| Thing is, I'm having trouble explaining why this film is so risible. |
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| The argument depends on a number of risible and obviously untrue assumptions. |
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| His essay was considered so risible that few even bothered trying to argue with it. |
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| His stature with the French public has sunk from rising star to risible lecher. |
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| Funny, but years ago the idea of seatbelts other than in an airplane or tobacco being deadly was risible. |
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| The notion is risible, and makes as much sense as expecting Carr to waste his time writing his own media releases, or reading media releases on the department of foreign affairs website. |
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| These works treat the Middle Ages as risible and express not a small degree of what the Germans term schadenfreude. |
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| The issue of threshold values proposed by the Commission, above which a public contract will be open to Community regulation, seems rather risible. |
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| And if that wasn't enough to make a weary opera-goer want to drown himself in the Nile, then surely Peggy Hickey's bizarre and risible choreography was. |
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| A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth. |
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