It has more sinister undertones and it is not quite as silly as Lock, Stock.
Should the Americans and Europeans then balk, Mr Fayyad would look as silly as Mr Abbas.
If Mr Beatty's involvement in politics is not quite as silly as it sounds, neither is Hollywood's.
PlugBug gives me an extra USB charger without wasting precious MacBook USB ports on something as silly as charging.
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If you think about it, printing out a boarding pass is almost as silly as printing out an e-mail.
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While using Facebook as a tool in your job search arsenal might strike you as silly, the research suggests otherwise.
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Well, one reason may be that during your interview, you were asked a number of questions that may have struck you as silly.
It is time to begin pondering these and other questions as Silly Season begins, even if only reluctantly and with a knowing half-smirk.
Expecting a stock to rise because you own it is as silly a notion as believing that we will never have another recession.
How about your business: are you using video to engage with customers and prospects, or do you still regard it as silly or unserious?
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Retail prices would have to rise a whole lot more than 10% for us to even consider switching to something as silly as tea.
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As silly as it now seems in retrospect, many of had this notion that we would be able to watch the virtual office grind away.
At my age and at this point in my career, most personal attacks against me because of something that I write about in Street Sweeper strike me as silly.
They are as formidable and as entangled a trio as tennis has ever witnessed as silly as it is to get into generational comparisons, it's fair to say that the great three of Borg, McEnroe and Connors (26 combined Slams) are on the run, in their flowing hair and short-shorts.
People from our planet may dismiss this film as silly, contrived, self-enchanted or flawed in the terms of its own exotic logic, and it is all of the above (or below.) Yet I fell for it by rising to the bait of its design beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else as well as its audacity in going all the way with a madly chancy concept.
"As stupid and silly as the show is, it's absolutely the gold standard for reality dating shows, " said Carbone.
Until around the Fourteenth Century the Church scolded people who believed in witches and rejected the whole idea as a silly peasant superstition.
They can view this as a silly internet contest (which they did last year), or a real representation of the distaste players have for them, and work as hard as they can to change that perception.
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Sam Riley, as Sal Paradise, the Kerouac figure, is almost as darkly handsome as Kerouac was, and the slender Tom Sturridge, with his big glasses, is charmingly silly as a sex-and-poetry-addled version of the young Allen Ginsberg.
That has oft been marked as an incredibly silly thing to do by people vastly cleverer than I am.
Silly as it sounds, the exact same thing happens in the tax world.
And it is those electoral dividends that matter to politicians: who cares about doing something very silly as long as you get re-elected?
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The folks at Digital Cube might not be willing to do something so silly as attach a keyboard to one of their PMPs, but they've apparently done just about everything else to prep this i-Station T43DIC for the exciting life of an electronic dictionary.
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Comic reviewers have panned the writing as pedestrian bordering on silly.
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Ignoring rules about classified data just because one wants to work at home or thinks the rules silly, as informed observers say commonly happened, is no longer tolerated.
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Not only did Watson's miss push the momentum in Chicago's favor, but the Nets also missed four crucial free throws in addition to committing a silly foul as Robinson attempted a 3-pointer.
Former head of Scotland Yard Sir Ian Blair has urged people not to vote, arguing the new police areas will be too big for any individual to represent properly - a remark Justice Secretary Chris Grayling dismissed as "a very silly thing to say".
It has a silly catchiness, as do the pop-culture references and sight gags.
But in democracies that bent can lead to silly policies such as the new government of Thailand's subsidized rice price, designed to aid farmers but imperiling a huge export market with artificially high supply costs.
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