Sentence examples for absurd aims from inspiring English sources

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Saving the world from nuclear annihilation, alien invasion or societal collapse are, by any standard, absurd aims.

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Finishing up with a motion to rename the Florida Turnpike to Peyton Way and a creepily whispered, "we love you," the absurd video aims to accomplish what fans don't trust the Miami front office to do: nab one of greatest quarterbacks of all time, papier-mâché neck and all.

Gun-friendly state legislators are pushing absurd laws aimed at pre-empting federal gun legislation.

Our members have reported abrupt ends to valuable projects near completion, the withdrawal of valued, long-established services, poor communication from those holding the purse strings about the future of their funding (negatively impacting on their ability to plan) and also demands – in my opinion some truly absurd ones – aimed at driving down costs.

There is an impunity within football which is absurd". Salvemos al Fútbol aims to denounce corruption and encourage civic responsibility among club members – the non-violent, fee-paying fans who actually own the clubs.

Was Paul Auster aiming for absurd self-parody when he wrote Oracle Night or had he just disappeared up his own post-modern rectum?

The senators and congressmen who enacted the law say that's absurd, and subsidies are aimed at residents of those states and the three dozen states that failed to set up their own exchanges and let the federal government do it for them.

House Republicans, who in the past loudly supported such transparency, are holding hearings to push the absurd claim that Mr. Obama is aiming to violate donors' free speech.

With sales last year of ¥586 billion, healthy profits and 770 stores in Japan and 70 overseas, his audacious aim is not absurd.

It is absurd that schools in states that aim for higher educational achievement face punitive measures, while those that set the bar lower are largely immune.

Whereas Samuel Beckett, another chief proponent of the theatre of the absurd, tried to describe meaninglessness, Ionesco aimed to deflate power for power's sake, to expose men's intellectual and emotional greed.

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