Eventually, I found my arms reluctantly outstretched with a ludicrously large tourist map in front of my face.
But none of these methods promise the ironic death this ludicrously macho handset demands.
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In the past only space-based telescopes could manage this trick and they are ludicrously expensive.
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Years of bitter debate about gun control have left America with ludicrously lax gun laws.
Ludicrously expensive, administratively Byzantine and freighted with expectations, it nevertheless promises to be a popular party.
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Some Republican lawmakers, ludicrously, claim that the drop is a result of their drive for more drilling.
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Deutsche Telekom had announced a ludicrously high fee, of DM98, for customers wanting to switch service provider.
Mr Luzhkov once ludicrously compared the Balts' treatment of ethnic Russians to Pol Pot's behaviour in Cambodia.
In the latter instance, The God Species is eerily prophetic and ludicrously understated.
Trevor-Roper, ennobled as Lord Dacre by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, was ludicrously talented.
They do this by setting a ludicrously high price, then giving discounts (called "scholarships") to families that can't afford it.
If successful, Goodfellow will reverse the industry's systemic research inefficiencies, which ultimately show up in the sometimes ludicrously high prices of drugs.
For years Europe has been an economic backwater because of excessive taxes and regulations, onerous labor laws and ludicrously lavish welfare benefits.
Taiwan, though, seeing its American markets in free-fall and challenged by China's technically-skilled and ludicrously cheap workforce, began to woo the Chinese.
Don't bee too envious though, the ludicrously quick network is only temporary.
If a currency seems ludicrously overvalued, interest rates should be cut even if that means inflation moves slightly above target in the short term.
It turns out that Con Edison wildly underestimated the scope and scale of financial losses suffered as the result of ludicrously inadequate internal accounting controls.
At times his visual satire is obvious: a 1997 photograph shows 170 different running shoes on elegant white shelves, a commercial display ludicrously exaggerated by computer.
They stood by as the President ludicrously accused the Republicans of deliberately inflicting harm on sick children so that their filthy rich supporters could have their corporate jets.
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All this grew out of an almost ludicrously elementary business plan hatched in 1995 by Ross Garber, a software marketing executive, and Neil Webber, an MIT-educated computer scientist.
England embarrassingly appealed for offside, but Wayne Bridge and, ludicrously, Shaun Wright-Phillips - who should not have been that far back - were both clearly playing him on.
There, sellers take advantage of less savvy consumers by quoting them ludicrously inflated prices, forcing potential buyers to waste time researching standard prices before going to the market.
Generally speaking, the report suggests multinational agribusiness, market reforms and a ludicrously inadequate policy response to the crisis on the part of the Indian government are among the culprits contributing to the tragedy.
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From a constitutional and legal standpoint, the Russian presidency is almost ludicrously powerful, and if Putin really is dead-set on calling all of the shots then he will, at some point, have to return.
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One of the real weaknesses of the current system is the ludicrously inflated prices that Russian consumers pay for Western goods: prices are often 50% higher and in some cases significantly more than that.
Instead, death is modified by ludicrously lengthy appeals (the average stay of execution for state-imposed sentences is now almost nine years) which put off the day of accounting, but do not remove it altogether.
Sure, there continued to be some mystifying close-mindedness one wonders if a certain ESPN NBA Insider will soon become an NBA outsider but Collins's announcement didn't provoke the type of meltdown it had long and ludicrously been predicted to provoke.
Instead, I'll say that it finds Mr. Tarantino perched improbably but securely on the top of a production that's wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.
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It was not the miles of palm-fringed, white sand or the ludicrously blue sea that stunned me the Caribbean is littered with beaches fit for postcards it was the fact that there was virtually no development in any direction and hardly a soul in sight.
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