Selected winners at the 76th annual Academy Awards: Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Directing: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Actor in a Leading Role: Sean Penn - Mystic River Actress in a Leading Role: Charlize Theron - Monster
Ridiculous - Juxtaposition with the sublime. 1  The ridiculous is sometimes contrasted to the sublime where something with one quality is thought of as approaching, or likely to change to, the other.
Where in the world had she ever found so ridiculous an idea as to think that Agnes would be angry with her! It was ridiculous, the amount of time she gave to that babyâout of all rhyme and reason. I thought her ridiculous, but it was too much trouble to tell her so continually. How ridiculous it was of women to sit at meals with hats on! His family were kept in perpetual fear of a ridiculous mesalliance. There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene. She was a little fool, he knew, and making a ridiculous figure of herself.