Absurdity

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"Absurdity" in a Sentence (14 examples)

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that includes absurdity in law enforcement.

Twitter is a good example of absurdity.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

The absurdity of the situation was almost comical.

For the past few years, teenagers who imitate overweight American rappers have been walking like inverted pendulums, swinging from left to right, which is the only way forward if you weigh over two hundred and sixty pounds, but completely ineffective if you are a scrawny teenager weighing half of that, since most of the energy is wasted on side steps, not to mention the sheer absurdity of that swinging gait.

Tom decided to live by taking the absurdity of life to its full conclusion.

An absurdity is a statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

The justifications for some wars are sheer absurdity.

The Kabyle people who want a secular state and a scientific education are hated by the Algerians who, for their part, want an Islamic and therefore Arab state at all costs! Finally, to make two diametrically opposed peoples live together is an absurdity without name and an unforgivable crime!

Let us express man's despair in the face of the absurdity of existence.

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And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity

The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number

Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.

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