How To Use Zany In A Sentence
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zany life + crazy faith: from the good "ollie" days ****
From the good "ollie" days ****
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Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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The craze that is sweeping America and Europe, sending crowds flocking to landmarks or shops to stage zany gatherings, arrived in Yorkshire at the weekend.
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By this stage I was barely holding it together, ready to bust out in tears of joy at how zany these madcap antics were unfolding to be.
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The crazy collage of styles is here but, overall, the feel is less zany and surreal.
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Gingrich's remarks at the Republican debate Thursday night were aimed at rival Mitt Romney, who in an interview on Wednesday used the word "zany" to describe the former House speaker.
The Seattle Times
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He made us all laugh with his zany tricks.
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Was she so completely smitten by the side-splitting antics of the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet that she overlooked the foibles of the irrepressibly zany Herman Cain?
Dear Barbara, Your A-List Needs Work
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Absolutely, but Tokyo is the international motor show that combines advanced technology with zany ideas and humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clear off the coffee list with the single zany of the tail.
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Every gapper-mouth zany grinning at me, and scoundrels swearing that I get my share!
Mary Anerley
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those reported to have lost houses in the community dubbed "America's Riviera" included actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as the zany scientist in "Back to the Future".
Signs of the Times
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That he would use this term, as well as the equally condescending "zany" in referring to this latter comedy makes his valuation of it clear enough, but later he also remarks that "Evelyn Waugh, alas, still represents the great image of English comedy in the 20th century, rather than his subtler and gentler contemporary, Henry Green.
Comedy in Literature
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Ben has adapted his zany thriller about ecological disaster and will play the lead.
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How are we to be entertained by her zany antics when she's incarcerated?
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Absolutely, but Tokyo is the international motor show that combines advanced technology with zany ideas and humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some tales, such as 'The Funeral' (1955) and 'The Doll that Does Everything' (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style.
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For those with a zany sense of humor, the adventures of Lieutenant Frank Drebin were a laugh riot from beginning to end.
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The zany hilarity of the early '80s has not aged well.
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You've got to be loud and zany and willing to contort your face and body into positions that might fairly be described as unattractive; you've got to be completely uninhibited, shameless, and out of control.
Annual Hog Calling Contest at Illinois State Fair Won by a Woman for the First Time
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The children are taken under the wing of zany housekeeper Martha but rarely see their uncle, who demands absolute silence while he writes his book.
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a zany sense of humor
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It is a far cry from the zany globetrotter of his stage shows.
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Viewers of last night's late editions of Ten News and Sports Tonight would have enjoyed the zany antics of the respective crews if they were watching closely.
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Those reported to have lost houses in the community dubbed "America's Riviera" included actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as the zany scientist in the "Back to the Future" movies.
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Like walking into the fun house at your local fair it's zany, madcap and often tongue in cheek.
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children are taken under the wing of zany housekeeper Martha but rarely see their uncle, who demands absolute silence while he writes his book.
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I mean it ought to be the charming old eccentric uncle with the zany housekeeper and the funny little critter on the beach and it just seems to miss out on that level and I actually felt that all the children were really unlikeable.
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Because of their zany antics, the entire lot of them are boxed up and shipped off.
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It takes the absurdities they perceive inherent in working life, darkens them, speeds them up and turns them into zany comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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His books, with their zany sense of humour, often explore his own childhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fold in a heaping helping of zany comic business and you get a show that is not just amusing but wildly, chokingly funny.
Love Among the Redwoods
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Show Us Ya Wits is a zany hour of belly-achingly funny and fresh stand-up.
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The Child Trust Fund is embarrassingly reminiscent of US presidential candidate George McGovern's zany scheme to give every American citizen $1,000.
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Yet regulated vivisection has been confounded with antivivisection by the union of zany cranks and trade-unionized men of medicine, who have not refrained from the coercion of patients, from the deception of the public, from the inoculation of legislators with mendacity, capsuled in sophistry, and from the direct or indirect corruption or intimidation of not a few public journals.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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Her house truck with its zany adornments can be quickly converted to fit in with our image of a gypsy fortune teller's tent.
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Master chefs have their hands full preparing a variety of delectable dishes with zany flavours and tangy tastes.
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True, the plot of FIRST AMONG SEQUELS takes a backseat to all the zany stuff, but the resolution is a direct result of all the strange happenings.
39. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
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By this stage I was barely holding it together, ready to bust out in tears of joy at how zany these madcap antics were unfolding to be.
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More than a few wine-producing regions have a grape they like to call their own: South Africans pine for pinotage, Aussies are smitten with Shiraz; and Californians are zany for Zinfandel.
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The former Massachusetts governor has been going negative on Gingrich, using the word "zany" in a New York Times interview Wednesday to make the point that whoever GOP voters choose as their White House nominee will need to have "sobriety.
News
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Master chefs have their hands full preparing a variety of delectable dishes with zany flavours and tangy taste.
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He brings us authority, composure and work rate and a bossing of midfield players we have lacked all of this zany season.
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Have a Zany Person: No matter what genre you choose to violate, every screenplay benefits from having a kooky character.
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A night of zany misdirection and bonding ensues.
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Does this all sound a bit, uh, zany?
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It takes the absurdities they perceive inherent in working life, darkens them, speeds them up and turns them into zany comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor was he madcap, zany, and over-the-top like Robin Williams who in his public persona seems instinctively funny.
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A blindfold test of this album might yield guesses like Stereolab in their garage days or a guitar-less Zappa, but Need New Body's zany debut is a free-standing oddity.
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Dilbert fans can now rejoice with the publication of four new books showing the zany character slogging away under the never - ending onslaught of corporate culture.
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The last I knew he was living in the Borders in some psychiatric home or an old person's slightly zany home.
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Many images involve cute little medicine pills, pieces of candy, or sushi rolls gen-bap engaging in zany hijinks and speaking in talk-bubbles.
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It can be "zany" or not (Beckett is zany in Waiting for Godot, not in How It Is or The Unnameable, but the effect is the same).
Comedy in Literature
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We both liked making costumes and had a similarly zany sense of humour.
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It seems hardly a week goes by anymore without yet another report of zany results of affirmative action in action.
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This is going to be a strange one, with lots of cross-currents flowing in zany directions.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the zany story of a cartoon bunny's madcap antics as he battles a corrupt legal system that has framed him for a brutal homicide.
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His zany humour took comedy to new heights of absurdity.
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I don't know too many people who use the word 'zany,'" Axelrod told Fox News'
NYDN Rss
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In the second half of the album, "Bcuz" is a brilliant confluence of zany pointillist melodies, swelling choruses and clever brass licks.
Daniel J. Kushner: Audio Outliers: Rediscovering Recent Gems in Experimental Music
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The ‘copter is a fun, zany touch … (personally, would have loved AO dangling upside-down from a rope, instead, but …) Great new look.
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This is going to be a strange one, with lots of cross-currents flowing in zany directions.
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Little of his output was significantly different from the likes of Steve Wright or other zany chatterboxes.
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But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered.
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Whether you need a break from exams, or are just looking for an amusing, intelligent film, you can't go wrong with a trip to the zany world of Steve Zissou.
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His philosophy is a peculiar and wholly subjective patchwork of frustrated sexual fantasies, zany misanthropy, and 1960s hippy-dippy iconoclasm.
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Those reported to have lost houses in the community dubbed "America's Riviera" include actor Christopher Lloyd, best known as zany scientist Doc Brown in the Back To The Future films.
Undefined
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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A zany, ragtag band of men from my old stomping grounds of Upstate New York decided to buy themselves a racehorse on Memorial Day weekend of 1995.
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It's kind of weird having a ghost - I call him the zany ghost - always around the house.
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Whether it's aiming for zany hilarity or astute satire, this show needs to stop preening and sharpen its claws.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was, in fact, a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without any shame or dignity.
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His books, with their zany sense of humour, often explore his own childhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under creative director Samantha Cameron, it has been introducing limited-edition versions of its trademark datebooks in zany colors such as hot pink and purple, priced at $172.
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We were all so pumped by his zany antics that we all ordered steaks.
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Do this by wasting money every two weeks on at least one expensive rouge lipstick that, once you have left the shop, turns out to be too berry, too Royal Mail-box red, too silt puddle brown or too zany raspberry for your skin pallor.
Slap shtick: How not to put on make-up
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She is a member of the editorial board and one of the folks who has made the paper a national laughingstock for its thoroughgoing political correctness and zany leftism.
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The result is a zany weekend of madcap musical comedy in classic Rankin / Bass style.
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She is antic and sour-faced even as she leaves her calling, and reason enough to see this zany play that by end, turns surprisingly poignant.
Regina Weinreich: House of Blue Leaves on Broadway: No Kindness From Stranger
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May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
Will Durst: Summer: Day One
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Oh boy more "zany" exploits from the annoying mom character.
Witwicky Parents Return for Transformers 3 | /Film
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We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where kooky, zany, and madcap meet is the locus of Jacquelyn Reingold's modest but spunky comedy String Fever.
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As if watching your child widdle on the lino for the fifth time in as many hours is ever going to be a giggle, no matter how many zany star charts and ‘hilarious’ picture books you are presented with.
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Yes, knighthood is absurd: and chivalry an idiotic superstition: and Sir Walter Manny was a zany: and Nelson, with his flaming stars and cordons, splendent upon a day of battle, was a madman: and
Roundabout Papers
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The types of activities that were previously the preserve of a crazy, zany, wacky few are moving mainstream; what started as a fad has become a phenomenon.
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It really feels like a family restaurant in Spain, down to the zany antics of Spanish sitcoms playing on the wall-mounted TV screen and a fuzbol table by the entrance.
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Michael made us all laugh with his zany tricks.
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Subtle shading was suddenly sacrificed to smirking, zany karaoke.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a zany, trippy excursion into the subconscious, highlighting the importance of love, strength and past passage, while casting a bleak shadow over abrupt decisions concerning matters that matter most.
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She made us all laugh with her zany tricks.
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Notably, cutea was also blotto epsilon's co-creator for the recent zany bogon flux build - a wonky, wonderful building that rezzes and destroys itself...
Archive 2008-10-01
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Add to this already zany array of characters, a psychiatrist with his own uxoricidal fantasies, and you have a Broadway comedy.
