However sublimely ridiculous he becomes, he continues to remind us, not so much, perhaps, of what we have done, as what we have, in our time, known we might do".

It has a sizable dollop of the Thief games' stealth and eavesdropping - and some of what you'll overhear is sublimely ridiculous.

That lands somewhere between a mild spoof and the sublimely ridiculous (as in the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, a treasured institution, which mixes low-down exaggeration and highly intelligent satirical comment).

An unpredictable comic earthquake, he was sublimely ridiculous from the inside out.

Of 17 songs, ranging from sublime to sublimely ridiculous, 9 derive from the original score.

IF you were to peruse the sublimely ridiculous treasures in the new Dada show at the Museum of Modern Art, you might wonder what became of the artist as an illuminator of the absurd.

IT isn't every theater that has the grace and the guts to pick a play as sublimely ridiculous as "Italian American Reconciliation" by John Patrick Shanley.

Anyone who sees this sublimely ridiculous show is going to be hard pressed to name a favorite moment.

His pants, meanwhile, were bunched around his knees, although he still wore his coat and tie and shirt; and a man with a coat and tie on whose balls are hanging out feels sublimely ridiculous.