If that sounds like the recipe for splashy, slaphappy music-making, nothing could be further from the actuality.
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But don't get slaphappy just yet.
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Fiction: Hysteria consistently supplies the abiding dynamic that fuels this slaphappy, melodramatic romp for more than 500 pages of contrived story telling.
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Just like the punch-drunk boxer who has fought on for too long.
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Less than five years ago Brazil's currency, the real, was punch-drunk.
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Gladys was looking at him in appreciative if slightly punch-drunk delight.
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She felt punch-drunk, happy, and she didn't care what was real any more.
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For punch-drunk financial markets, truly scary numbers seem to have lost their shock value.
Ús de silly en anglès
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He looked silly enough in truth; but he never bothered about it.
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I was silly to be mixed up with it in the beginning.
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Lay aside affected, silly etiquette for the natural dictates of the heart.
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They were just silly, ordinary fussinesses; they had no sense in them.
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The idea of yonder silly creature being the companion of a MAN.
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The silly fellow proceeded to back me up in my extravagant admiration.
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It will be a lesson in your silly old pounds and pence.
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They were very silly and merry about the measuring of the noses.
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The Jervaises were snobs upset by the threat to their silly prestige.
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She remembered walking the floor then, in a silly panic of fear.
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As a rule only the silly bass and red-eyes take the bait.
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You think I should burden and worry you in endless silly ways.
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But perhaps it would be silly in me sleeping out here tonight.
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You must interfere in this matter: make these silly women behave themselves.
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You kept me in anguish the entire night, with your silly words.
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But there may be a touch of truth behind the seemingly-silly notion.