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absurdity

Main Entry:	ab·surd·i·ty [ab-sur-di-tee, -zur-]
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Main Entry:	absurdity
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Nowhere has this propensity of theirs been carried to greater lengths of absurdity than in relation to the laws of the sea.

The absurdity of this claim is obvious to anyone who has ever done research in archives.

The absurdity of this half-abolished public holiday has become the source of much confusion, resentment and derision.

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Nowhere has this propensity of theirs been carried to greater lengths of absurdity than in relation to the laws of the sea.

The absurdity of this claim is obvious to anyone who has ever done research in archives.

The absurdity of this half-abolished public holiday has become the source of much confusion, resentment and derision.

Robinson smiles, as if to admit the absurdity of a man jumping into a bear fight.

It is outstanding how many comments there are on the absurdity of this study.

The absurdity of dangling from a single rope far above the ferns below was put into perspective quickly.

It's easy to joke about the absurdity of the measure.

Every surmise when followed has led to an absurdity.

And farts are funny precisely because of the absurdity of the human condition.

Indeed, there was at one point the minor absurdity of a countdown to the resumption of the countdown.

Kugel decreed that the day forever would be a day of absurdity.

Naturalistic evolution has the self-referential absurdity problem.

To note that this is overkill would be to wander too-willingly across the threshold of absurdity.

Weeks of professors behaving weirdly prompted me to see the absurdity of my current condition.

But he fails to expose the full absurdity of the diversity industry.

The other point about the absurdity of being loaded for bear every time you go into the wilderness is also good.

The program illustrates the absurdity of attempting to regulate any technology that can be coded up as bits.

Thanks to your quite rational question, some readers have been sensitized to the absurdity of this portion of the leftist agenda.

Good satire is supposed to become gradually more obvious to reveal the absurdity.

First there's the inherently ridiculous contradiction-the recognition of absurdity is often funny.

Especially when those itches can be scratched by hot frontal nudity and quotable absurdity.

There's apparently no amount of absurdity that can't be overcome with ill-gotten gains.

It blamed the airport's intransigence for such absurdity.

Infinite regression, circular reasoning, reduction to absurdity.

There's making crowds of people laugh at the absurdity of it all.

But the comic still made a good side point about the absurdity of security theatre.

Those who stick with their theory even in the face of absurdity.

In all three cases, success lies in their sheer absurdity.

But admitting its absurdity would also mean admitting the regime's unpopularity.

Or to reveal what is interesting in it through absurdity.

Yet no art form can compare with the absurdity of reality.

Though it adds to the absurdity and complexity of the issue at hand, it is clearly presented, which is refreshing.

Government by targets has problems that go beyond its inherent tendency to absurdity.

To think this has no effect on structural unemployment is rediculus to the point of absurdity.

Forsize, please pause a moment and consider the absurdity of your statement.

Reductio ad absurdam, yes, but the absurdity is there in the original.

The absurdity of the statement seems the greater from the fact that in our land.

Politicians rail at me about the absurdity of tenure.

The absurdity of the second conviction seemed to contradict the first.

Apart from the absurdity of the proposition that something came from nothing.

My web page also points out the absurdity of the mud rubble ramp theory postulated in almost all the other web pages.

He then erects a straw tenet only to demolish it on the ground of its absurdity.

And the sheer absurdity of the representations started to grab a hold of.

It's a comedy that confuses humor with confusion, wit with noise and eccentricity with absurdity.

Only by writing in a serious manner could the absurdity of the premise be revealed.

Superb and richly concise article on the elegant absurdity of dueling over the centuries.

It has music and song and dancing and a penchant for absurdity.

Yeah, once the hurt is gone, you have to laugh at some of the absurdity.

But even those who value the union despair at the complexity and absurdity of its finances.

If this absurdity gave the women pause, they did not show it.

Thanks for the laughs all, and for helping me get a firmer grasp on the absurdity of this situation.

The timing is breathtaking, but the content is self-indulgent absurdity.

Life is a puzzle without a solution, a series of bleak, frustrating moments shadowed by the guaranteed absurdity of death.

It is in the second and newest volume that one enters a realm of fully-fledged absurdity.

Reading about climate science or climate politics, such as the absurdity of wasting a perfectly good.

Hillman honors the absurdity of the poem's predicament and the paradoxes inherent everywhere.

All of which simply underlines the absurdity of the rules in the first place.

The two trial mentioned in the article underline the absurdity of the process.

When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost.

The real point, though, is the absurdity of the system.

It's one thing to have a philosophical point, but another thing to push it to such realms of absurdity.

It really captures the absurdity of the whole issue.

We have the absurdity that the victims are blamed for the violence meted out against them.

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