At first the movie comes at us too broadly, with many facetiously anachronistic jokes about the grubby professional routines of the theatre.

NEWYORKER: Shakespeare in Love

Less facetiously, the truth is that I could not stomach being a professional gay spokesperson because I have never been a professional homosexual.

CNN: Thank you, Anderson

Technology guru George Gilder has not-so-facetiously suggested that when overseas graduate students complete their studies here, green cards should be embossed on their diplomas.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

But what if the OBR is right and the eurozone sorts itself out relatively painlessly (please don't facetiously yabber on about porkers defying gravity and whatnot)?

BBC: Would euro solution be costly for Treasury?

When I made this proposal, only slightly facetiously, in a roomful of self-described education entrepreneurs, it was if I'd said that Dewey had plagiarized his decimal system.

WSJ: Andy Kessler: Professors Are About to Get an Online Education

That was the -- I use this term facetiously -- the genius in the design of the sequester -- it was written in a way to make it terrible.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The authors noted that there has never been a controlled clinical trial of parachutes, and facetiously suggested that one be conducted in which subjects were randomized to jump from a plane either with or without a device.

FORBES: Dangerous Ignorance