Sentence examples for absurd adventures from inspiring English sources

It wasn't a film about stars, or riches or absurd adventures.

From the beginning, Saulnier seeks our complicity with his bumbling hero, and he holds it by putting Dwight through absurd adventures without undermining him.

He was liable to drag in bits of what he called poetry; and sometimes, after a glass or two, would allude to the absurd adventures of his mysterious journey.

But while admitting that Dracula had been his cornerstone, he eventually left the role to others, and later regretted letting himself in for so many of the vampire's increasingly absurd adventures.

Though Cornelius is a drunken womaniser, he exudes a mysterious allure of class and brilliance to other characters, and lurches into a series of darkly absurd adventures as a result.

His shows are built around his lived experience, absurd adventures of his own making, swept along by chance and which, in the telling, almost persuade you that there is some kind of serendipitous pattern in a random universe.

"How To Train Your Dragon is a joyously absurd adventure that wears its themes lightly," writes Channel 4 Film's Anton Bitel.

"An enjoyable family movie, with some great flight sequences – and there's an interestingly realistic sense of the dangers involved in risking your neck for others". "How To Train Your Dragon is a joyously absurd adventure that wears its themes lightly," writes Channel 4 Film's Anton Bitel.

There are Nazis, sadistic geordie drill sergeants, beautiful women, dashing spies and a faithful dog, all brought vividly to life by Ker in a beautifully scripted piece of absurd adventure fiction so crammed with smart wordplay and comic non sequiturs ("I picked up my kit, which was heavy, like an Ibsen play") that you barely have time to take them in.

The danger in "Do No Harm," a modern Jekyll-and-Hyde story that tries to mix traditional medical drama with a borderline absurd mystery-adventure, is more cartoonish but also more viscerally frightening: If you have your operation after 8 25 p.m., it may be performed by a sociopath with a violent streak and no surgical experience.

(It's difficult to picture her traveling to Poland for such an errand!) But when most people think of tea in literature, it's usually Lewis Carroll's delightfully absurd "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" that first comes to mind.