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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Ludicrously expensive, administratively Byzantine and freighted with expectations, it nevertheless promises to be a popular party.
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Deutsche Telekom had announced a ludicrously high fee, of DM98, for customers wanting to switch service provider.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But maybe the difference in American and Swedish obesity is purely cultural in nature: maybe those austere, disciplined Nordics know not to gorge themselves at the government trough despite the fact that their welfare state is ludicrously more lavish than anything on offer in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.
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