Public views, especially among the young, hold that discrimination is not only wrong, it's silly.
" And "Re: CERN, some ppl say it's silly to put so much money in something few people understand.
"That's silly, " she said when I told her this after we were married.
She said she told her two children that they will remember Kyle's silly side, Texas twang and the prayers they prayed together.
It's silly, the way we've been brought up about the Germans, because I would never think of coming here if it wasn't for the football.
"That's silly, " says Simon Cao, the chief technology guru at Avanex.
It's silly to conclude that because one poll found 90% support for "background checks, " that translates into a like level of support for this particular piece of legislation.
"It's silly to think that giving up vacation is going to make your colleagues think how important you are, " says Connie Thanasoulis, a career services expert at the job search website Vault.com.
"It's silly because I don't want to be a slave to marketing but it really got into my head, " said Ms. Daniels, who recently switched to the Samsung phone from an older iPhone.
It's silly because it is unnecessary, all the parties have signed up to the principle, for individuals to sign up as well it's a bit like saying that we're not trusted to act in a decent way.
If there's a silver lining to the SEC's silly decision, it's that markets are global, and if U.S. regulators are too immature to understand the importance of price discovery and the short-seller's role in it, other global markets will take the trading volume that our SEC intends to repel.
It's a silly critique, purely on substantive grounds, and it's not as if appointing a CEO will make most of these critics quiet down.
It's a silly penalty, a silly mistake now and again that has cost us.
"I've been hitting the ball a long way, it's going silly distances and my short game has been good, " he said.
"I just think it's just silly to think that the timing of it would be at all related to any other events that are going on, " he said.
There's a term that's used in economics often as a derogatory term: fine tuning, in the sense that that's a silly thing to try because you can't achieve it.
With his band Red House Painters, he took things like "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs, " slowed them way down and gave them entirely new emotional meaning, which to me is the mark of a truly great cover version.
It's a little silly to go to the expense of sending out 90 million letters to give a two-week heads-up on the checks going out in the mail.
There's even a silly backlight for several face buttons, should you be playing video games in a cave (you can opt to turn off the backlight, too -- we certainly did).
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The National Trust has published a list of the UK's top 10 "silly walks" to such colourfully-named locations as Scrubby Bottoms, Pembrokeshire, Booby's Bay, Cornwall and Windy Gap in Surrey.
Why is West following Booth's trail rather than The Bull's? (Kind of silly to have Grant use the Bull's note to light a cigar, no?) How does Gordon eavesdrop on a conversation ostensibly directly above his dressing room, but is in fact also across and down the hall?
Novelty socks are the technology set's version of Wall Street's graphic neckties and silly suspenders of the 1980s.
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