How To Use Absurd In A Sentence
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She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life.
LADY BE GOOD
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It is quite absurd, not to mention infuriating, to have some moron from Sky burbling on about the next attraction when one has not had time to absorb the emotion from the film one has just seen.
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We do not allow people a second try on a second question when they have so absurdly got it right the first time round.
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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As for bridges, fairground rides, aeroplanes and indeed absurdly altitudinous skyscrapers that move perceptibly in the breeze - not fine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Physicists like the mathematical beauty of string theory because it banishes the absurdities that pop up when quantum mechanics and gravity combine.
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But a moment's reflection shows the absurdity of this idea.
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‘Maria Maria Maria’ is simply gorgeous - a dark, reverb-soaked slab of despondency with a lyrical combination of absurdism and sincerity that could only have come from Merritt.
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And the traces of this absurdity are visible in the mien of our politicians.
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The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical.
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
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The idea of demons in New York was therefore fundamentally absurd.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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It's an absurd situation - neither of them will talk to the other.
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Karlovic's commentary ranges from self-deprecation to self-defense to heckling of other tennis Tweeters to absurdism.
Words of Wisdom Provided by Dr. Ivo
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth
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Yet, more serious is the blunder in his statement "the Finzi-Continis moved out of society altogether and began to cultivate what B's father sees as absurd pretensions to nobility (the name Finzi-Contini in Italian actually suggests 'fake little counts').
Bassani's Father
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But leave to others these niceties, 'whether they are to be described as follies or absurdities:
Gorgias
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The idea that attending opera today is only for the elite and moneyed is absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be absurd to blame Aristotle for his conceptual poverty: poverty is a lack, not a failing.
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It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand.
Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
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Carpathia that he has often grumbled to the officers for what he called absurd precautions in lying to and wasting his time, which he regarded as very valuable; but after hearing of the Titanic's loss he recognized that he was to some extent responsible for the speed at which she had travelled, and would never be so again.
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons
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It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance.
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Louise's logic suggests that, had Nolan managed to steer Ranger's nod down the right side of the post minutes before Coloccini's unwitting own goal let's be honest, that *would* have been undeserved, which is just absurd.
The Guardian World News
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Students give him absurd names and wheel him out for practical jokes and pranks.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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It is the product of an absurd conspiracy theory.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a nice programme, but marred by absurdly intrusive music.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level.
This week's new comedy
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It is only one of the absurd rules in the system of law laughingly known as British justice.
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley
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Stephen Spruiell at the NRO noted the absurdity of Krugman's complaint that bloggers might use the same responses to rebut Krugman's repeated statements of the same ideology.
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My imagination galloped around the possible, the impossible and the absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight.
For todays active man
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But only a nation so absurdly rich could have built two hundred battleships, carriers and cruisers in the war years, as well as a thousand smaller ships.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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She has stage presence and a keen sense of the absurd, particularly in the political realm.
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well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity
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The end result recalls the heady absurdism of Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) spiked with Eastern antagonisms.
Not for the Faint of Heart
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Yes, it is all a bit familiar - but, sadly, nowhere near as delightfully absurd and unrepentantly silly as the Ghostbusters movies.
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It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities.
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
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It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
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Does anyone else think that tweeting on behalf of your pets is a little absurd?
The Age of Tweety Cats - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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The fact that critics are bitching about the film's avoidance of the racial issue is absurd.
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A very useful trick - and absurdly simple, too - is to notice when the defender looks away from his man.
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As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals.
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!
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For understandable reasons we prefer to think of ourselves as rational agents who live meaningful lives rather than as muddled actors in a theatre of the absurd.
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Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning.
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He oftentimes is so absurd and insensible of kindnesses done him that he renders evil for good.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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As the film unfolds, Coppola subtly shifts the perspective to show the plate glass windows as barriers and Tokyo's apparent absurdities are gradually revealed as a positive and regenerative force.
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He's perfect as a camp hard-ass, spouting absurd rhetoric in his gravelly voice while depriving the inmates of the necessities of life.
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He plays it deadpan, with impeccable style and fastidious attention to detail, but of course that only enhances the absurdity.
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Is it absolutely necessary for populist politicians to have absurd hair?
Times, Sunday Times
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An uncompromising and rigid republican, he was called by Clarendon ‘an absurd bold man’, and by Ludlow, who knew him well, ‘a man of a disobliging carriage, sour and morose of temper’.
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Nora says it is not her island, that the idea of land ownership is absurd, not to mention politically incorrect.
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The world is glue, pitch, paste—always too pliant; a dough that softly kneads the kneader, and whispers to the hand the material absurdity that it should loosen its grip, renounce its labor.
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As an absolute and omnicompetent power, from the standpoint of psychological realism it is both an ethical travesty and a practical absurdity.
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This absurd idea has morphed into the average American's idea of Democracy and Freedom, and this claim pounds into our senses in thousands of marketing events every day.
Reverend Billy: 9/11 vs. the Earth
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I wrote a little ditty on the latest election absurdities: the Obama-Ayers brouhaha vs. the Palin-Alaskan "secessionist" party flap.
Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – October – 19
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It's absurd things like that that balance the movie off its pain-film miserableness; this is a really funny movie, despite the constant stream of tragedy, loss, degradation and soul-shattering identity crisis its characters undergo.
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Fortem reddunt animum et constantem; et pium colloquium non permittit animum absurda cogitatione torqueri.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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His name 'etheric' may, thirteen years ago, have seemed to many people absurd.
Edison, His Life and Inventions
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His films are often absurdist and violent, intrinsically drawing on his early life but never dealing directly with it.
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It would indeed be absurd to require them to determine conditions for a lapsed permission.
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I feel torn between two conflicting impulses - my desire to be taken seriously as an intellectual, and my desire to share with others the absurd things that delight me.
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It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely.
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Old Ebbits looked at me in childlike wonder, while Zilla sneered openly at the absurdity of my question.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY
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His responses are delivered without so much as even a change in inflection, always acknowledging the absurdity of his circumstances and the unfortunate reality that has come as a result.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: A Serious Man, Couples Retreat, Bronson, and More | /Film
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The holes seemed absurdly small, so I scissored them big, then slipped the two attachments seamlessly onto the taps.
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Counting these no-brainers as evidence of genius is absurd.
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The reductio ad absurdum is related to a familiar form of proof in logic: You make an assumption and then derive from it a contradiction or a known falsehood by a series of valid inferences.
Fun with Hair Splitting
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
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Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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But the restrictions on individual licence which are due to respect for a known and friendly power allied to man, however trivial and absurd they may appear to us in their details, contain within them germinant principles of social progress and moral order.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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They are obsessed with catching the attention of people to think about absurd claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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That, too, was absurdly crowded, not least because of a rare live appearance from, yes, Lily Savage.
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Senator Robert Taft found the idea of loaning military equipment absurd.
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First of all, there's the absurdity inherent in making a touristy tour thing out of something so very serious and depressing.
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Absurdity can include a disco ball in the deanery.
Irish Blogs
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If the present economic relations are simply absurd and nonsensical, hollow at their center, something to be rejected, then what is the prospect for a different life emerging?
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Their policies were riddled with the logical absurdities on pricing of which Gaitskell had earlier been so critical.
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Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God “a category mistake”.
Atheism
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The level of outrage is absurd: it's front page news and questions have been asked in Parliament.
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In his last two films (Caro Diaro and Aprile) he’s basically played himself, establishing a neat line in absurdist self-mockery and thoughtful observation, looking ridiculous on a moped while obsessing about “good-bad” Hollywood movies and musing on life and politics.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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While it is absurd to think the public would fall for something so outlandish as to say that one of the building blocks of life is a poison, you must remember that many agreed to ban water under it's scientific name dihydrogen monoxide.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Sure, there are some important achievements, but also many tens of billions have been wasted on absurd military space projects or in imposing requirements on the Shuttle (such as its huge down range) for military manned polar recon missions from Vandenberg only to 15 years later realize an astronaut crossing the Van Allen radiation belts 4 times per LEO orbit (every 90 minutes) was not quite a good idea.
Latest NASA Administrator Speculation - NASA Watch
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They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left, only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity.
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The audience laughed lightly at the absurdity of this.
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Such claims are as absurd now as they were then.
Times, Sunday Times
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Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it.
The Decameron
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The call for new ideas is absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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If, again, it is permitted to pretend that the passage has another meaning, and was written as it is from some reason unknown to us, this is no less than a complete subversal of the Bible; for every absurd and evil invention of human perversity could thus, without detriment to Scriptural authority, be defended and fostered.
Theologico-Political Treatise
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Sometimes the producers went to absurd lengths to protect their advertisers and product placers, pixelating one of the inmates T-shirts to cover up a rival furniture product.
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Tout ce que la centralisation laisse entrevoir de défauts, de ridicules et absurdités, d'oppression, de paperasseries en France, est grossi en Afrique au centuple.
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
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The absurdity is that her students don't yet know the alphabet.
Carol Smaldino: To Mayor Bloomberg: Stop the Bullying
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Try to make it less absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, true to form the National party is saying that the case is vexatious and ‘an absurd waste of time and taxpayer money’.
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But at the same time, this administration has a list of just -- of just absolutely absurd complicities in all sorts of issues, including, failing on border security, pressing ahead with SVP, the North American Union.
CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2007
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The most important realization he came to was that ‘even the most absurd Hollywood movies’ were expressive of larger social forces and trends.
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It would be absurd to attribute any political meaning to the incident, or to suppose that it had any connivance from the French Government.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
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With just the simplest physical language, they found a way to overleap logic and build an absurd world that makes a brand new kind of sense.
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They are obsessed with catching the attention of people to think about absurd claims.
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I also think we'll see more restaurants offering obvious value, perhaps less absurd extravagance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is absurd to expect it to give a running commentary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
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The great strain for married couples in modernity is the absurdly high expectation of the marriage bond.
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In that moment, I became absurdly sure that a supernatural force was working upon me, pushing and pulling me toward an unknown fate, a road at whose end stood the slight, cold figure currently bargaining with my father.
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Calderon also lashed out at what he called "absurd" and "irrational" immigration laws in the United States.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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It's absurd to suggest that decisions like these can be taken on a whim by the Home Secretary.
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An article in Popular Mechanics suggests some historical absurdities which future authors may attempt to perpetrate on the gullible public.
March 15th, 2009
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Highlighting the heroism and absurdity of war, it also illuminates a forgotten byway of African experience.
The King's Rifle: Summary and book reviews of The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let us then define rights, if we would not be for ever entoiled by these absurdities.
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves.
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Wild applause erupted when Zeng Fanzhi's painting of youths wearing absurd masks and Red Guard scarves went for $9.7 million, a new auction high for any Asian contemporary artwork.
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She held an absurdly elaborate weapon of some kind, a pistol shape nearly lost beneath a flanged overlay of scope sights, silencers, flash hiders.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
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But the Tories will continue to crucify manufacturing industry, in pursuit of an absurdly high parity in the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
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Your proposal is absurd; it's an absolute non-starter.
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His absurd plan to deliver a surplus entirely through cuts to unprotected departments is tantamount to a proposal to abolish the police.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can any thing be more absonant from faith and reason than this absurd expression? and yet it is the direct sense, if it be any, that these men put upon the words.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
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Thoughtful answers are copasetic, though ribald, eccentric, absurd responses earn magical brownie points.
Least fave interview question
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They could hear the burble of Godfrey attempting to speak through his absurd teeth.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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'Novi ego aliquem qui dormitabundus aliquando pulsari horam quartam audiverit, et sic numeravit, una, una, una, una; ac tum præ rei absurditate, quam anima concipiebat, exclamavit, Næ! delirat horologium!
Literary Remains, Volume 1
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What the Vatican II Fathers said on this subject is readily understood, not as a patently absurd claim that Muslims believe God is three coeternal, coessential, and coequal Persons, but as a simple acknowledgement of those few matters of faith where Muslims agree with the Truth.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
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It seems that lawmakers are ignoring public opinion in making such an absurd decision.
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If you enjoyed the off-beat and absurdest humor of Return of the Living Dead along with a good heaping dose of gore, definitely check out Die and Let Live!
Die and Let Live (2006)
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Such absurd claims are all too common.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labour and the Liberal Democrats appear to accept without question the view that our constitution is absurdly out of date.
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For Beza in many places sharply contends that God, when predestinating and reprobating man, considers him, not as created, not as fallen, but as to be created, and he claims that this is indicated by the term "lump," used in Rom.ix. 21, and he charges great absurdities on those who hold different views.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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Already we live in a different world and some people's energy choices increasingly look absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is not this not only agraphon but also alogon, not only unscriptural, but also unreasonable, yea, absurd and ludicrous?
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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If the people are the sovereign in today's Russia, then limiting their sovereign power in the name of Russia's sovereignty is absolutely absurd.
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Racing appears the most absurd outgrowth of our fascination with the car: drivers hurtle around in circles, at the limits of adhesion.
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It is ridiculously absurd to believe that the number 13 is unlucky.
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Ideal and absurd, they bespeak a wonderfully eccentric imagination.
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And Iott's and the Wikings 'whitewashed account of their military prowess is beyond absurd.
Rich Iott -- a Nazi bit of reenacting work
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What genius will be able to explain to us that the term Islamofascism is absurd because Islam itself, in its entirety, is a form of fascism?
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Labour and the Liberal Democrats appear to accept without question the view that our constitution is absurdly out of date.
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Many may dismiss these notions as absurdly fanciful.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think there's a distracting absurdity about his music because it deflects you slightly from the fact that he's often very sharp-witted; there are some very pointed observations within his songs.
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It sounds absurd but the entire episode has been so completely farcical that one can hardly believe that it took place at all.
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Dramatic irony also plays an important role in exposing flat characters' absurdity and round characters' defects.
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Always aware of its own absurdity, the scripts positively dripped with knowing pop-culture references and side-splitting asides.
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Lyric and Ta'if are my favorite roses, particularly Lyric which is just endlessly, almost absurdly beautiful and interesting at every stage of wear.
Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypre: Perfume Review and a Prize Draw
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The previous administration's stubborn refusal to build more prison places led it into the absurd position of early release.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is absurd and makes it look almost certain it will be kicked into the long grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the bishops themselves seem to have realised what an absurd idea it was.
Times, Sunday Times
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Students give him absurd names and wheel him out for practical jokes and pranks.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully.
The Thorn Birds
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The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd.
Rad Geek People's Daily
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For us to follow so blindly is just absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether that made it all nice and legal I'll leave to the lawyers but a certain amount of absurdity suggested itself in the situation.
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This statement is so untrue that it borders on the absurd.
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Neither is likely to relish any continuing role in this increasingly absurd drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology.
Archive 2008-03-01
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He laughed, too; something about the word sober, especially as applied to him, seemed absurd.
A Happy Marriage
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Each dish is an unprecedented sensation, and the idea of ever again considering eating anything I'd previously thought of as food quickly becomes absurd.
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Nature thought good sense a handsome dower — but good sense in dependance is like a chef d oeuvres of Raffaelle [10] in a bog house. if the savages of America have fewer luxuries than the slaves of Europe they have fewer miseries — the artificial distinctions of birth & fortune are unknown — distinctions which though the Philosopher must despise, he must want. on the banks of the Oronoko when the young savages is born — his infancy is neither embitterd by fashionable nursing his puberty by absurd education or his life by the anxieties so frequent
Letter 66
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The hoops are frequently absurd and outrageous, but that's another story.
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West a dam elementary school mathematics teacher thought that such rumor is very absurd.
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Without doubt his experience was slender, and it seemed absurd to pronounce concerning that of which he had no direct knowledge; but so it was, he could not outroot from his mind the persuasion that to plough, to sow, and to reap, were employments most befitting a reasonable creature, and from which the truest pleasure and the least pollution would flow.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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We moderns, owing to our horrible system of footgear, which is hardly less absurd than the Chinese shoe, no longer know what a foot is.
King Candaules
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Fact is, his grogginess is of a piece with his intensely absurd comedy, the enervated mutterings of one worn out by too much hard thinking.
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Certain penitents, in a show of incredible remorse (absurd stupidity? faith?), have themselves nailed to crosses and bake under the sun on Good Friday in imitation of Christ.
Archive 2003-04-01
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Western women, fully accoutered with nail polish (which is incompatible with manual work), high-heeled shoes (disastrous for the posture and hence the back, and quite unsuitable for walking long distances over bad roads) and brassieres... denounce female circumcision without the shadow of a suspicion that their behavior is absurd.
Nomad
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Indeed it would be quite absurd if companies can not correct any mistake if all interested parties agree.
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Notions of reason and absurdity, exile and homeland have always framed South African art production.
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But why then did not those profound rabbies amongst the Jews, and the Stoicks and Epicureans (those oracles of reason) amongst the philosophers, baffle and refel these babblers, and so dashing their absurd doctrine in its first rise, prevent its spreading, by a mature and thorough confutation?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Instead of greater freedom, what results is absurdly long workdays in stressful environments.
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She should reflect on the absurdity of the politically correct policy that blew up in her face.
The Sun
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It is the product of an absurd conspiracy theory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Jewish writers run into gross absurdities to evade the conviction of this evidence; some of them say that this messenger is the angel of death, who shall take the wicked out of this life, to be sent into hell torments; others of them say that it is
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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They tend not to be so absurdly competitive, they're more realistic and, I'd thought, more empathic.
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Already we live in a different world and some people's energy choices increasingly look absurd.
Times, Sunday Times
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Reports last week suggested that there is now a faint hope of an end to these absurdities.
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Since nearly everyone is dislocated, including writers within our current critical diaspora, the staking, lauding, and defense of territories, an otiose form of regionalism, is even more absurd.
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Laughter is easily restrained, by a very little reflection; but as it is generally connected with the idea of gaiety, people do not enough attend to its absurdity.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Elinor gently remonstrated with him on the meanness and absurdity of such conduct; but he silenced what he termed her impertinent interference in matters which did not concern her.
Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers
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Erect of stance, she thought absurdly, and pinhole of vision.
RIOT
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The guards at the Palace are called evzones, and wear those absurd little skirts that the Greeks call fustanellas.
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Deutsche Telekom termed the RICO lawsuit "absurd" and said it didn't do anything illegal in acquiring the disputed 48% stake from the Polish investor,
Court Rejects Vivendi Suit
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Not surprisingly, the opinion of the people sitting around me was that the blimp was an absurd waste of taxpayer money.
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But do not dismiss the idea as totally absurd.
The Descent of Mind - the how and why of intelligence
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I began by talking about the importance of laughter and a sense of humour, and the need to recognize and embrace the ridiculous and the absurd.
Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
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For one person who, being a person of genius, has been injured by what is called conventionality -- I do not, of course, mean foolish conformity to what is absurd -- thousands have been saved by it, and self-separation means mischief.
Catharine Furze
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But, as we said above, the less men know of nature the more easily can they coin fictitious ideas, such as trees speaking, men instantly changed into stones, or into fountains, ghosts appearing in mirrors, something issuing from nothing, even gods changed into beasts and men and infinite other absurdities of the same kind.
On the Improvement of the Understanding
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I ought not to lose an opportunity of refuting an absurd story which has been much circulated, and which is repeated exceedingly malapropos under the article of the “Abbé Gedoyn,” upon whom the writer falls foul with great satisfaction, because in his youth he had been a Jesuit; a transient weakness, of which I know he repented all his life.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It shows how ideas that seem absurd and barbaric to most of us nowadays were the undisputed norm only a century ago.
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But then you come to the third part of this sort of triangular absurdity, and what you get to is big financial institutions with extremely well-paid individuals, in the presumably pure free market.
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He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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When that happens heads are going to roll even if it happens in such a way so that placing blame is absurd.
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Film School Rejects said the film feels like “a mixture between the silliness and absurdness of a Farrelly brothers movie, but with the intelligence of a Coen brothers flick.”
I Love You, Phillip Morris Finds U.S. Distribution | /Film
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The trouble is that the analysis ” absurdly ” makes it seem as though when two things have one degree of brightness there could be a substantive question which of the two ” x or y ” it was ” as though a degree of brightness were some kind of corpuscle whose association with a thing made it bright (cf. Klagge and Nordmann,
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism
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They also claimed that printing and binding would make such sized books economically unviable, which is a claim that had me blinking at its self-evident absurdity.
Greasing the Wheel of Time for all it's worth
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Gain is novelist Richard Powers's attempt to make up this lost ground in one great pole vault; to loft the novel of American enterprise over the old swamps of socialism, Darwinism, and absurdism into a new place.
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Sweet, slightly hot and absurdly sticky they will fill the kitchen with that warm, Christmassy aniseed smell you so often encounter in Chinese restaurants.
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Demeter, the type of the earth, or to Mithras, the symbol of all that fructifies that earth, -- the great object and design of the secret instruction were identical in all places, and the Mysteries constituted a school of religion in which the errors and absurdities of polytheism were revealed to the initiated.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Now, you know, in my opinion, it's an absurd proposition.
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Absurd were the number and variety of offices embraced by the Test Ac:; non-commissioned officers as well as officers - excisemen, tidewaiters, and even pedlars.
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My second pointer may seem absurdly unnecessary; I assure you it is not.
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The absurd pretence of the supermom role was taking its toll.
Times, Sunday Times
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What Walpole calls the absurdest passages are precisely those which possess most interest for posterity; namely, the minute personal details, which bring Johnson home to the mind's eye.
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
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It's got sex, violence, absurdism, politics (including a wicked parody of Western European and American leaders) and lots and lots of drugs.