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Перевод: silliness

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1. He should not be nervous: by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights.
2. Elisabeth listened to this exchange with interest, impressed by the Colonel's consideration and his wife's capacity, despite her silliness, to make a fine distinction.
3. Few Americans take congressional silliness seriously.
4. The only cure for the "silliness of his brain" was to return to reading, or to write an article.
5. This was the first piece of silliness: Comet already has 8.8 per cent and Dixons has almost 18 per cent - quite enough when merged to breach the 25 per cent ceiling which triggers a Monopolies Commission inquiry.
6. The consummate silliness of Beerbohm's sneer, quite apart from showing just how brittle and thin was that famous "wit" of his, has alas a representative significance also, as we see when we put beside it Maurice Bowra, another famous "wit", saying of Pound that he was, not just a bore, but an American bore'.
7. But Jones is a snappy player in every sense, and set the tone for an afternoon of petulant silliness with a Gatting-like finger-wagging retort to one of Keith Griffiths's decisions.
8. Angst took over from utopian ideas of man's upward march, quickly followed by despair on the one hand and pure silliness on the other.
9. Such silliness, and tampering with the text, will not do either (suffice it to say the word "flying" nowhere appears in the Hebrew).
10. But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts: it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences.
11. The second piece of silliness came from Dixons' Mr Kalms.
12. The bishops will betray that which is entrusted to them; and the irresponsible silliness of the Synod will be seen to be sinful.
13. Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence.