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Example sentences for: silliness

How can you use “silliness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."
Collecting lists of silliness is a legitimate pastime.
The film is "[a] triumph of sustained silliness" (Andy Seiler, USA Today ), which pokes fun at the family's bad taste while elevating their home-grown values and simple familial love.
This is the reason why the Times Magazine series never really worked, and tended to veer off into interesting digressions at best, and postmodern silliness at worst.
He liked to deflate solemnity with silliness.