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I think that social media is actually going to help us dismantle some of the silly and demeaning stereotypes that we see in media and advertising about gender.
We walked down to the local park, messed around on the swings, played some silly games.
And it sounds silly, but that's basically what we do.
And it was here, listening to these poets share their stories, that I learned that spoken-word poetry didn't have to be indignant, it could be fun or painful or serious or silly.
So in a very typical, silly designer fashion, after years worth of work, pretty much all I have to show for it are the titles for the film.
And so even if we make those very important decisions for very silly reasons, it remains statistically true that there are more Georges living in Georgia and there are more Dennises becoming dentists and there are more Paulas who are married to Paul than statistically viable.
Now I, of course, thought, "Well this is American data," and I thought, "Well, those silly Americans.
So if we're serious about helping black boys and other children to read when it's not required, we need to incorporate relevant male reading models into early literacy and exchange some of the children's books that adults love so much for funny, silly or even gross books, like "Gross Greg".
It's a little quirky and silly.
And sure, it may be just one big old silly fish, but it's helping.
So the case of grammatical gender may be a little silly, but at the same time, grammatical gender applies to all nouns.
I have chosen to make silly jokes about quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen interpretation.
Think of hunting with silly string.
Well the answer is, if I drew it on a normal curve where, let's say, this is years, this is time of some sort, and this is whatever measure of the technology that I'm trying to graph, the graphs look sort of silly.
They put a laptop, and they connected to the diagnostic unit on the in-car network, and they did all kinds of silly things, like here's a picture of the speedometer showing 140 miles an hour when the car's in park.
Now you might say, "Okay, that's silly."
They can be shocking or silly or soulful.
A silly, trivial thing to do, but think of the difference on a team that didn't do that at all, that got 15 euro, put it in their pocket, maybe bought themselves a coffee, or teams that had this pro-social experience where they bonded together to buy something and do a group activity.
Somehow I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.
It's really quite silly, isn't it?
And she said, "Don't be so silly."
Who's going to take him seriously if he's got a silly little title like 'President of the United States of America'?"
Now we expect that to happen with silly stories about precognition, but the problem is, we have exactly the same problem in academia and in medicine, and in this environment, it costs lives.
The Internet was that amorphous blob, or it was a silly black box with a blinking red light on it.
But anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit, that language, rather, emerges from human minds interacting from one another.
They acted silly.
News of this silly little story quickly spread through the school, and I earned my first nickname: Porkchop.
Journalists coin silly nicknames for twentysomethings like "twixters" and "kidults."
It sounds silly, but I thought, okay, the way the world works can be changed, and it can be changed by me in these small ways.
And I want to avoid the silly carbon-chauvinism idea that you can only be smart if you're made of meat.
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