Sentence examples for That is absurd from inspiring English sources

Thus, e.g., the statement "She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair" (Ryle 1949, 22) is perfectly well-formed syntactically, but nonetheless Ryle classifies it as a sentence that is absurd, where the absurdity is a symptom of the fact that the sentence conjoins terms of different categories.

"Free elections are not an American goal — that is absurd," he said.

As for the idea that the class system is holding back British aviation or agriculture or tourism, that is absurd.

None of this is to say Mr. Putin and his entourage resemble Stalin and the Cheka: that is absurd.

But what the Heritage histrionics unintentionally showed was everything that is absurd, wrong and darkly humorous about the American approach to diet and health care economics.

It is a serious error.... See to it that the supremacy of the law is undisputed, and through the law rid our hearts of this respect for reasons of state that is absurd in a democracy".

No — that's absurd.

Do not add topics that are absurd, ridiculous, jokes, etc.

That was absurd.

That's absurd.

Come now, that's absurd!