How To Use Absurdity In A Sentence
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But a moment's reflection shows the absurdity of this idea.
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And the traces of this absurdity are visible in the mien of our politicians.
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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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well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity
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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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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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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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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
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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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Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God “a category mistake”.
Atheism
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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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The absurdity is that her students don't yet know the alphabet.
Carol Smaldino: To Mayor Bloomberg: Stop the Bullying
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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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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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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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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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Notions of reason and absurdity, exile and homeland have always framed South African art production.
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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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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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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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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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She expands details of ordinary life into fantastic images, words are used unconventionally and horror and absurdity are mixed with extreme poeticism.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 - Speed Read
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The Bible once received, science can furnish abundant illustrations of the attributes of the Being therein revealed; but even with all the illumination which has been the immediate or secondary result of Christianity, man is hopeless without its authority, and I would not give the slightest shadow of support to that irreverent presumption which, guided by what it calls the unaided light of nature, would construct a system of religion out of passions, intuitions, and I know not what absurdity.
Religion and Chemistry
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Understandably, they expanded the conversation to address changes in America and in American art, including the rise of what Bearden referred to as a concentration on themes of "absurdity" and "antiart.
Voices Stifled by Solidarity
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Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works!
Archive 2009-04-26
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Accordingly, St. Augustine treats the idea of antipodes as an absurdity; and Lactantius, whom we have already quoted, expressly says “can there possibly be any persons so simple as to believe that there are men whose heads are lower than their feet?” etc.St. Chrysostom exclaims, in his fourteenth homily, “Where are they who pretend that the heavens are movable, and that their form is circular?”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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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 a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude.
The Doctor's Daughter
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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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In particular I loved it's absurdity, it's gross attention to detail and it's endless fart gags.
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Anyway, if I haven't already conveyed this notion, the band is pretty much built around the idea of subversiveness, of magnifying all sorts of cultural hypocrisy and absurdity in the name of reason, humor, enlightenment, etc.
Hank Shteamer: Double Negative: Negativland At The Highline Ballroom
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The sheer absurdity of the situation he recounts would be very amusing were it not so utterly pathetic.
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It has its faults - implausibility and absurdity in its sexual imbroglios and a narrative structure that tends towards the elusive.
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Strong campaigns across India maybe starting to force this corporation into a retreat, but it will not be the last such absurdity.
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His deft touch and ability to extract humour and absurdity from the ordinary extends beyond directing movies.
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In the spirit of sorting out some of the absurdity from the more reasonable discourse going in the environmental discussion, let's look at some of the issues which seem to bring on some of the most contentious debate.
Supporting Sanity Over Fear: TreeHugger Examines The Most Contentious Environmental Debates
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The absurdity of the plot clashes with the show's craving for social realism.
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Mr. James demonstrates the supreme absurdity of the notion of noumenal existence, or of any created existence which has life _in se_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimneypot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress.
The Malay Archipelago
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Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation.
The Monastery
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He gave me a long lecture about the absurdity of somebody claiming an interest in serious music who didn't own a stereophonic gramophone.
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One of my favorite moments finds Eric Burdon asked to lead his fellow Animals in a kind of conga line toward Unsworth's camera as "House of the Rising Sun" charges toward its crescendic finale; as a straight-faced Burdon relates his story of a man brought low, guitarist Hilton Valentine, visible just behind him, can't resist cracking up at the absurdity of what they're doing to promote their record.
Archive 2006-09-10
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His relationship with Briseis, who resists and then falls in love with him, exposes him to the absurdity and indefensibility of his position, as the glory-seeking pawn of a monstrous expedition.
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Standing there naked, I was suddenly struck by the absurdity of the situation.
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Last year one MP tried to remove this legal absurdity with a Private Members Bill but failed.
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I was taken by the absurdity of a boat large enough that it could have it's own canal and serenading gondoliere.
Death on the Caribbean
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The plot sinks into absurdity, as dead people are resurrected and the Beast is exposed as a mechanical porcupine.
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When did the fool stop saying in his heart, "There is no God," and acting godlessly in the absurdity of his impiety?
Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks
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This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.
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Ibsen is in favor of the mariage de convenance, which suppresses, without favor, the absurdity of love-matches.
Henrik Ibsen
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With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself.
Actress, Seductress
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Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed, and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity.
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The germ of an idea sprouted in his mind: maybe, instead of highlighting the drama of the story, the film should highlight the absurdity of it.
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This extravagance is also very pronounced in the alchemistic works attributed to him; for example, the belief in the artificial creation of minute living creatures resembling men (called "homunculi") -- a belief of the utmost absurdity, if we are to understand it literally.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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Philosophers wrote about the absurdity and emptiness of human existence in the extraneous Universe.
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Video evidence of the event shows Keith looking sick to his stomach and cackling like a hyena at the absurdity of his mission, and doing it right in the heavily-bearded faces of the band he was to induct into this laughing stock of an embalming center.
James Campion: Why the F#@! Isn't Kiss in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
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Absurdity may exist together with tragedy and loftiness but is incompatible with comedy.
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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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The GOLDEN AGE began with an image of a golden ship, greater than all the other ships of man, designed for such immense velocities that she must be streamlined; and streamlining is an absurdity in the near-vacuum of space.
INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
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The surreal absurdity of all this is a joy in itself, while the iridescent underwater scenes border on photorealism.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are grave dangers in extending such subsidies, as the absurdity at present under discussion of providing hourly salary levels for visual artists suggests.
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Taken to its logical conclusion, the argument by the Petitioners would lead to absurdity.
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Personally, with my Bizarro texts, I try to test the limits of narrative, create and entertain irreal characters and worlds, represent the absurdity of mediatized society and culture, explore the vicissitudes of unconsciousness and desire, and critique the nature of technocapitalist pseudoreality.
Nonfiction
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Being married is so normal until I think about it, and then it is a maze of surreal absurdity.
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You just need to know a good joke, or have the comical sense to see absurdity in daily life and… bang!
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Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity - or perhaps not quite.
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The fallacy has been exposed in its naked absurdity.
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The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
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There are however some traditional dramatic devices which function to heighten the atmosphere of absurdity, including the use of string tremolandi to underline Ubu's plotting and mistuned brass fanfares to herald courtly meetings.
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This is an almost limitless duty to the point of absurdity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hari then stuns us with some ‘facts’ which he hopes will save him from absurdity.
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He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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Don Quixote is a monument to absurdity, a hymn to the inspiration and futility of the romantic anti-hero.
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If we consider how essential to such a masterpiece is inoculation of belief in the tender age of childhood, the system of missions appears no longer merely as the height of human importunity, arrogance, and impertinence, but also of absurdity; in so far as it does not confine itself to people who are still in the stage of _childhood_, such as the Hottentots, Kaffirs,
Essays of Schopenhauer
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Nothing would be more easy than, by the ordinary principles of sound logic and common sense, to demonstrate the impossibility and expose the absurdity of the corpuscularian or mechanic system, or than to prove the intenable nature of any intermediate system.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
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Again, rationality is the alternative to absurdity, but it has no quarrel with mystery.
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The sheer absurdity of the situation cannot be glossed over.
Times, Sunday Times
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He attacks Royal Ascot for being an absurdity and a pantomime.
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Many have pointed out the absurdity of asking new citizens to swear an oath to the Queen, when a large number of citizens born here would probably refuse to do the same.
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The 'absurdity' is the treating of stock and option grants DIFFERENTLY.
Stock Options as Tax Deferral, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Neither Spurs' reuse of Olympic infrastructure nor their consortium's offer to fund a parallel refit of Crystal Palace's running track addresses the central absurdity.
In praise of … the Olympic stadium | Editorial
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But the only result of their labours was that they nearly got "bushed" themselves, and at last the fall of night made the absurdity of further search clear to them.
Adventures in Many Lands
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It is from this point of observation that our humour is suddenly made aware of the startling absurdity of human institution; and not only of _human_ institution; for it is made aware also of the absurdity of the whole fantastic scheme of this portentous universe.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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Willis quoted Lee as, “to assume that greenhouse effect of water vapor is colinear with CO2 forcing over this range of 33C is naive to the point of absurdity.”
More Unthreaded « Climate Audit
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It is a high-wire act of comic absurdity with a safety net of sentimentality.
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If only Macpherson had used the term groupthink instead the absurdity above wouldn't have happened.
Archive 2007-09-01
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My 'overbred' creatures are a series of animals that bear the imagined results of domestication pushed to absurdity.
I Want Your Skull
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Catching Nefret's wandering eye, his lips curled in acknowledgment of the absurdity of his presence: the prodigal son, the black sheep.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh.
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To add to the absurdity, the packets come complete with a moist towelette similar to those provided in fast-food outlets.
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The only element Kurtzman adds to shape the events is drama, which serves to tease out the absurdity skulking just below the romantic surface.
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The web-slinging and the dizzying scenes from the heights of New York City plus William Defoe's amazing ability to overact to the point of absurdity all made this movie great fun.
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There may well be a few cases where teachers and others, from the best of motives, stray into absurdity.
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For Camus, the recognition of absurdity cannot be shrugged off with an ironic smile.
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Again, rationality is the alternative to absurdity, but it has no quarrel with mystery.
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They hobble out of their limousines, bowing in all their pristine, extravagant absurdity.
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The absurdity of it amused him at first every time he saw his name flaring in big red and yellow letters from placards and hoardings.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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Many scoffed at the absurdity of the claims and the great detective writer was held up to public ridicule.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vito surmised he was a plainclothesman and scoffed at the obviousness and absurdity of it.
Fear
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_The discovery of America was MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY geographical discovery_, for that is saying that the discovery of America was more important than itself -- an absurdity.
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Theatre was much funnier in those days and (like the equally stage-struck Dickens) Bainbridge the novelist can't resist the essential absurdity of people pretending not to be themselves eight times a week.
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He likewise never dramatizes a cultural crisis of meaning as a kind of descent into nothingness, madness, and absurdity.
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The absurdity of the situation made everyone laugh.
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The result is an airless Oedipal drama, with a persistent and inescapable note of absurdity.
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It's a hilarious film full of gems of comic absurdity that are mixed in with nonchalant understatement.
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Imamura really proves himself a master at the unlikely blending of absurdity with a bit of neorealistic poignancy.
DVD Times
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We have no difficulty whatever in believing a mystery; but when we are required to embrace what so plainly seems to be an absurdity, we confess that our reason is either weak enough, or strong enough, to pause and reluctate.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory
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There are moments in the column when he understands what a hopeless task he has taken on and abandons himself to the full intoxication of giddy absurdity.
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This month's issue of the always-excellent Smithsonian magazine has a long feature about the history and influence of the Dada art movement, described by artist Tristan Tzara as a "virgin microbe" that spread around the pre-World War I world leaving mind-blowing artifacts of absurdity in its wake.
Boing Boing: May 14, 2006 - May 20, 2006 Archives
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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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Spectators may be overwhelmed by the flood of words as well as the clash of absurdity and reality without having a chance to give it a moment's thought.
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These units of meaning may not ultimately accumulate, but that's hardly the point; Amato forces his reader to acknowledge the fundamental falseness, absurdity, aimlessness, and finally emptiness of demotic linguistic conventions.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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He offers you the spectacle of an ironic, intelligent 47-year-old man gazing at Yelena with the dotty helplessness of a moonstruck adolescent: aware of his own absurdity but powerless to prevent it.
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His own career is an exemplar of survival in the face of absurdity as well as adversity.
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For Camus, the recognition of absurdity cannot be shrugged off with an ironic smile.
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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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The entirety of the absurdity is eerily similar to Joseph K being accused of a crime he does not know.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: US “Activist” Travis Randall Deported
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I find myself growing increasingly angry at the absurdity of the situation.
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Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, deemed Danzig and the Polish Corridor to be "an absurdity.
The New American
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John Maynard Keynes, the great 20 th - century economist, would have appreciated the absurdity in these mixed messages.
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This is a pure absurdity, as any fair reading of the pages we have devoted to such matters can demonstrate.
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Rabelais's Gargantua is a prime example of absurdity as literary device (compare the structure of the great "arse-wiping" scene to the "Yorkshiremen" sketch above).
Strange Fiction 4
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Plus the chat function means that you can expound about all of the banal minutia you'd like in regards to the song playing, what it means to you, or the absurdity of the entire situation.
Conan Neutron: Why Turntable.fm Might Just End Up Saving Music
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I can't think of a post sarcastic enough to do justice to this absurdity at the moment.
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Love is often a victim of its stubbornness, sentimentality, irrationality and absurdity. Dr T.P.Chia
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Billed as a comedy, The Green Butchers certainly squeezes a few audible laughs from you, but mostly the humour is the aftertaste of the film's overarching absurdity, dry and fleeting.
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Bush has come full circle: His ridiculousness is approaching the sort of existential absurdity that is untouchable.
Sunday Reading
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Anthony had no wish to be caught up in the absurdity of a Freddie Barnett brawl.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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You will if you see this one man show that tries to make sense of the insanity and absurdity of life by making us laugh.
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The imbalanced pacing makes it difficult to appreciate the profound monologues and witty repartee that follow the long stretches of absurdity.
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The larger challenge is in the longer-term, if not permanent, sitings, where the formal rigor - and essential ludic absurdity - of such an artist's work is tested.
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In the spirit of sorting out some of the absurdity from the more reasonable discourse going in the environmental discussion, let
Supporting Sanity Over Fear: TreeHugger Examines The Most Contentious Environmental Debates
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But there is a much more general point about the absurdity of wearing earphones when cycling.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Lewis spoofs the postwar anti-traditionalist movement by having Jill attend a school called Experiment House, he gives the school a headmistress, which is supposed to signal its absurdity.
In Defense of C. S. Lewis
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With disgust, Arendt recalled the dehumanizing absurdity of practicing to shackle detainees, in preparation for the "big game" of shackling actual detainees.
General Strike USA: 9/11/08
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The strength of the British Constitution lies in its inherent absurdity, its audacious paradoxicalness.
Without Prejudice
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[226] Add to this, what I have before taken notice of, the great absurdity of making the Grecian Argo the first ship which sailed upon the seas: Illa rudem cursu prima imbuit Amphitriten: when the poet, at the same instant, is describing Theseus, previous to the Argo, _in a ship_, and attended with
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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He hadn't wanted vague talk of reverence; he'd wanted a concrete reason for what seemed to him an absurdity.
GALILEE
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No doubt Coppola and his screenwriter, John Milius, were fully aware of the plot of Die Walküre, the ingenious portrayal of the helicopter gunships as modernized, mechanized Valkyries — the music both romanticizes combat and wryly points out the absurdity of ancient notions of chivalry in a war where the killing is almost industrialized.
In the corners of my mind
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Tautology and absurdity are never far apart in Harry's spiels, but this one takes some beating.
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The ultimate height of absurdity was that he ended up entertaining the man for breakfast!
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As the family gather round to see her off in 1988, Lily reflects on both her past and the sheer absurdity of life.
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In contrast, Scieszka's story allows children to challenge conventions by finding the absurdity in manners, rules, and even language itself.
Sammy Perlmutter: Jon Scieszka At The Brooklyn Book Festival: How Valuable Is 'Funny' For Kids?
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We in the media kept this absurdity alive for weeks longer than necessary by any journalistic accounting.
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Thus the book, in the oldest of journalistic traditions, is "A True Confession" given majesty by the gigantic sums of money expended upon it by Doubleday and Hollywood; pathos by Talese's indication in interviews that he is uncertain how Mr.. Talese will react to public discussion of what Talese and "Talese" got up to; and absurdity by the last lines of the book in which Talese says that "Talese" returned to his childhood haunts in New Jersey, stripped his clothes off in a nudist colony on the shores of the Great Egg Harbor River and, regarded by bourgeois mariners, "looked back," with Mr. P presumably pendent and unashamed.
Mr. P, Mrs. V, and Mr. T
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The absurdity of the image still makes him wince.
Times, Sunday Times
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_Maqui_ is Early Welsh for _son_, and those to whom Mr. Skeat's modified _maqui_ seems absurd will be pleased to find its absurdity indicated, if not proved, by a Greek author of the sixth century.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
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The notion that any clergyman should have the 'impudence' -- (this was the word used by Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay) -- to pause in the service because people came in late, touched the very apex of absurdity.
God's Good Man
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The earth-shattering declaration (which was an absolute absurdity, really) came from a tall, willowy girl surrounded by what could only be classified as a gaggle of peons.
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His specialty was running horses; he protected the equine race and supported a magazine devoted to hippic questions; but, for all that, he knew very little of the animals, and from shoes to bridles he depended wholly on his groom, — all of which will sufficiently explain to you that this semi-bachelor had nothing actually of his own, neither mind, taste, position, or absurdity; even his fortune came from his fathers.
Beatrix
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In the womenswear industry, designers can offer panache without absurdity through color, varying hemlines, adornment and more.
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The conversation trailed off into absurdity.
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Many scoffed at the absurdity of the claims and the great detective writer was held up to public ridicule.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, he also got responses such as this, from an Orthodox colleague, A gay Orthodox rabbi is an absurdity as inconceivable as an Orthodox rabbi who eats cheeseburgers on Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Standing Up for Our Gay Kids
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The modern anguish stems from the absurdity of the allegory, once its center, divine Will, is removed.
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The drinkers perform a comedic caterwaul while the folk singers create a dissonant background to the absurdity.
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3: 5, 6; Mark 1: 9; John 3: 2, 3, and use the word sprinkle or pour where the word baptize is used, and note the great absurdity.
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
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At times the explanatory zeal of the commentators impels them into excess and absurdity.
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To grant the one, then, and refuse the other, is, in effect, to homologate or acknowledge the constitution, and not to acknowledge it, at the same time, which is a glaring absurdity.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
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What an absurdity were it, if in the body natural _all were an eye_, or _hand_! for _where_ then _were the hearing, smelling_, &c.; _or if all were one member, where were the body_?
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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More broadly, the author's trademark absurdity suffers from the real story's grand-scale ghastliness.
Book World: Lionel Shriver reviews Yan Lianke's 'Dream of Ding Village'
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Consumerism reaches ever-higher levels of absurdity, yet most of us are blind to it.
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And at the apex of this compromise is an absurdity.
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Their incorrectness and absurdity soon became apparent; and with a zeal, perhaps, bordering on indiscretion, he denounced them to his pupils with an ardour of manner and of expression proportioned to his own conviction of the truth.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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It's a hilarious film full of gems of comic absurdity that are mixed in with nonchalant understatement.
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If he had indeed held prudence to be a good, producing felicity, as Epicurus thought, one should have blamed only the absurdity and the paradoxicalness of this opinion; but since prudence of itself is not another thing differing from felicity, but felicity itself, how is it not a contradiction to say, that momentary happiness is equally desirable with eternal, and yet that momentary happiness is nothing worth?
Essays and Miscellanies
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the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior
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Many scoffed at the absurdity of the claims and the great detective writer was held up to public ridicule.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had not expected an absurdity like views detrimental to the Allied cause, Mr Dermott?
TANK OF SERPENTS
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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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Best of all, there is a solid cast of actors who rise to the occasion of the screenplay, never overplaying comic moments but clearly getting the absurdity of every turn.
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His zany humour took comedy to new heights of absurdity.
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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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Crazy logic had reached the ultimate apogee of absurdity - or perhaps not quite.
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Most of these posts seem to relish in their own absurdity (I'm looking at you, TÖRdötCÖM), and the point of embarassing the gullible is missed, with instead the emphasis being placed on how well-crafted the hoax appears or the right timing of things (neither of which matter).
What I really hate about April Fool's Day and the Internet
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Part one focuses on the "absurdity" of medieval hetero-normative sexuality with the authors attempting to explore other types of sexual behaviour.
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The liberty which we call indifference is a word without an idea — an absurdity; for this would be to determine without reason; it would be an effect without a cause.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The ludicrousness, absurdity, and extraordinary contrast between what the fellow fancied, and the reality, was truly comick.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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As I gaze at this slender sylph in front of me, the absurdity of her paranoia gets me thinking that women so often suffer from a distorted view of themselves.
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Arguably, this white identity politics helped swing the 2000 and 2004 elections, serving as the powerful counterpunch to urban white liberals, and the McCain-Palin campaign relied on it almost to the point of absurdity (as when a McCain surrogate dismissed Northern Virginia as somehow not part of “the real Virginia”) as a bulwark against the threatening multiculturalism of Barack Obama.
The End of White America?
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A quilt in the guest room of a slightly shabby British B&B is elaborately embroidered with the Latin slogans Argumentum ad crumenam (an appeal based on wealth), Argumentum ad absurdum (an appeal based on absurdity) and Argumentum ad captandum (an appeal based on popular passions).
This week's new exhibitions
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Everybody will feel the heat: the analysts, pension fund trustees, fiduciaries, life insurers, all of whom have embraced a patent absurdity in order to avoid confronting hard truths about the markets.
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It's exaggeration to absurdity, to a point where it obviously, patently is not meant to be taken literally, for crying out loud.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Jon Voight, as the camp commandant, or second in command under the mean spirited Warden, overacts to a point of absurdity.
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The absurdity is that we don’t even have a satellite in orbit that is monitoring current CO2 abundances in the mid and far infrared, sciamachy is trying using the near infrared with very limited results so far.
Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit
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I have forborne from commenting on the latest media circus about Australia's Governor General because of its sheer absurdity but I suppose I should devote a few words to it.
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Another absurdity of this dogma about "implied faith" is, that where there was no power to exact an _express_ pledge, there was none to demand an _implied_ one, and where there was no power to _give_ the one, there was none to give the _other_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
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Along the way, you will be transported to other rich and diverse cultures and experiences that exemplify the essence of Bushman spirituality—spontaneous movement, gleeful absurdity, and potent life force.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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The emergent self is protean, shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
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Still, it can be said that Hiroshima is veverywhere in postwar and contemporary fiction -- in its themes of futurelessness and absurdity, and its predilection for violent orengeful behavior by heroes and anti-heroes alike.
Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age
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However, if you allow the absurdity of the term, 'civi'lized' dragons don't toy with each other this way.
The Black Wing
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Whether he is fit for the job is, of course, irrelevant to the continuing absurdity of the job itself.
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Joseph Heller's novels reveal the absurdity and corruption of the American ruling clique, and the confusion and madness in the American society.
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The absurdity of the image still makes him wince.
Times, Sunday Times
