Harris tosses off even the most purple prose with such aplomb that readers may give in to the sheer silliness of it.

If some of this sounds like sheer silliness, that's the idea.

Laurel & Hardy still go down well with kids for their sheer joyful silliness.

This time, he takes a similar tack with material so flimsy that it borders on sheer silliness.

Some of the show's better moments are memorable more for their sheer silliness than for any points they score about the precarious state of Broadway.

In some cases these formulas lead to sheer silliness.

By playing up built-in exaggerations in an excessively broad staging, the director has demoted high style to sheer over-the-top silliness.

The Young Vic does everyone a service by presenting these stories in their original form, but sheer silliness seemed equally important to the audience.

For sheer silliness, they are almost unrivaled.

Flights of fancy all too easily float off into sheer silliness.