Sentence examples for absurd appearance from inspiring English sources

The phrase "absurd appearance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that looks ridiculous or nonsensical in a particular context.
Example: "The clown's oversized shoes and bright makeup created an absurd appearance that made everyone laugh."
Alternatives: "ridiculous look" or "ludicrous sight".

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His experiments with new media, such as a famously absurd appearance on YouTube, have not always been successful.

One of the leaders of the far right in France, in the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, was Eugène Deloncle, whom Brandon describes as a "clever and charismatic naval engineer whose hypnotic personal charm nullified his somewhat absurd appearance — short, plump, invariably bowler-hatted".

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Strange to say, he was more fun than Colbert: If Colbert and Merz each can take a place on the spectrum of absurd appearances before assemblies this week, then what does one do with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

You laugh – both at its appearance (comic, ugly, absurd) and the price tag (three figures, possibly more).

Kant found this incredible and rejected "the absurd conclusion that there can be appearance without anything that appears".

The case against Khodorkovsky had the appearance of an egregious and absurd fabrication, but the judge ruled that he would be locked in a labor camp until 2017.

His appearance in this episode is absurd but after four and a half seasons of Lost it makes perfect sense".

It also lends an absurd quality to moments such as Kanye West's VMAs appearance in 2009, when he interrupted a Taylor Swift acceptance speech to declare that Beyoncé should have won instead.

Mr. Levitt is pushing rules that demand "independence in appearance," he said, adding that "this Caesar's wife quote is absurd".

If the analogy at first seems absurd, it's because the three bodies of work from the vantage of outer appearances alone, defy comparison.

Her instinctively grand posture suggests years of red-carpet appearances and confrontations with domineering studio heads; she's valiant, pathetic, intimidating and absurd.

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