(1) In this day and age you wouldn't expect it to happen once - but three times is ridiculous .

(2) Why are we not aware of the ridiculous amounts spent on such white elephants?

(3) They try to step into their old shoes and into their old clothes, and they look faintly ridiculous .

(4) The council says that the law does not allow it to play such a role, which is ridiculous .

(5) Be in no doubt that we appreciate how ridiculous this whole episode must look.

(6) The idea that smokers take more paid breaks than non-smokers at work is ridiculous .

(7) I am sick of hearing the ridiculous arguments about civil liberties and tradition.

(8) Is it just me or are others finding this practice ridiculous and just a little shady?

(9) Like all the best comedians, Jethro takes real life and makes it seem ridiculous .

(10) Just as he has the right to ask for a ridiculous rent increase, you have the right to fight it.

(11) It is ridiculous to demand that we should give asylum to those who plot the destruction of our society.

(12) It's ridiculous that such a beautiful landmark should be closed off for so long.

(13) It is extraordinary the number of people who say to me it is ridiculous that players should be paid so much.

(14) We thought it was ridiculous that someone so young who had just come out of basic training was sent there.

(15) I told her that one of my best friends at the time had a crush on her and she just laughed and thought it was ridiculous .

(16) The discussion about everything else we should be blaming and banning is just ridiculous .

(17) The increase in costs will result in a doubling of our charges, which is totally ridiculous .

(18) The ridiculous part is that had he not applied for a grant, he would not have had to apply for permission.

(19) The traffic jams are now so ridiculous I wonder why I bother trying to get to work in the first place.

(20) Plans to name a street in a Bradford village after an exotic pink bird have been branded ridiculous .

(21) He captures the spirit of whimsy that informs the text, without losing sight of serious themes such as the ridiculousness of intellectual pretention or the horrors of old age.

(22) If you ask me, all the best stunts were pulled off by Charlie Chaplin, and they rarely even used camera angles to accentuate their ridiculousness .

(23) He forced us to face the cruelty of fate and the ridiculousness of life, sometimes in the same 30-second song.

(24) Phone Booth is one of those loony concept movies that is so implausible, so unbelievable, that it actually manages to work despite its ridiculousness .

(25) Curry plays Arthur as a mildly world-weary but genial uncle figure, perplexed but beamingly amused by the ridiculousness of the situation he finds himself in.