Sentence examples for absurd ambition from inspiring English sources

In a sign of the menu's almost absurd ambition, these last three ingredients are actually all in the same dish of cappellacci.

Much like his Cambridge contemporary and occasional collaborator Mark Watson, Alex Horne is a comedian of vaulting, almost absurd ambitions.

McNamara: "Game of Thrones" should win because it is a miracle of absurd plot-ambition and deeply nuanced character development.

Is that ambition absurd or redemptive?

But in retrospect they are all so absurd, and the ambitions were so out of touch with reality that they are funny.

Even then I loved its absurd simplicity, its very basic ambition to have things go smoothly.

Diane was a snob who needed to loosen up; her ambitions were pretentious and absurd.

Then around a bend they appear: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, each face some 60 feet (18 metres) high.Inspiring, absurd, magnificent however you describe Mount Rushmore, in its scale, ambition and subject it is uniquely American.

"I don't see the ambition to levitate the building as less absurd than what is going on inside the building".

Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs (1999) Stephin Merritt's meticulous modernisation of the Great American Songbook is an absurd folly - a giddy explosion of wit, whimsy, inspiration and ambition that is matchless in its achievement.

Williams's basic point is that, in the practical domain, the ambition of transcending one's own point of view is absurd.