Sentence examples for Quite absurdly from inspiring English sources

("I am quite absurdly happy and pleased with myself," Auchincloss wrote to Gore Vidal shortly before the wedding.

Mr. Rosenbaum understandably assails Harold Bloom for pretentiously (and quite absurdly) arguing that Shakespeare "invented the human" personality as we know it today, and he presents an interesting (if weirdly personal) attack on Mr. Bloom's sentimentalized view of Falstaff.

No one was ever quite so absurdly chic as Ken.

8 It's quite a long novel, but not absurdly long.

I quite admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly".

Eva, with her own solid working-class credentials, had little trouble winning the hearts of the hoi polloi, but could never quite seduce the upper classes, who found her pushy, Machiavellian, absurdly coiffed and just a smidgen trashy.

IndigoMontoya said Pret's "warm cheesy croissants are quite hard to resist", while Self said "they are both absurdly overpriced and I wouldn't go near either of them".

The eponymous goal of the initiative was not quite plucked out of the air, but it was, in retrospect, absurdly optimistic.

Quite why Britvic is still able to peddle its sugar-laden, fibre-free (and absurdly expensive) Fruit Shoot drinks as part of "your 5-a-day" is unfathomable.

The arrogant, absurdly gifted and slightly obnoxious star of the early years has become something quite different.

Bootle and Mills are quite right to point out that Britain has suffered from periods when the exchange rate has been absurdly over-valued, most egregiously during the early Thatcher years from 1979 to 1981, but also under Labour during the late 1990s and early 2000s.