Even at Super Bowl media day — a preposterous circus atmosphere that includes reporters in costumes asking the most absurd questions imaginable — several Seattle and Denver players clammed up at the mere mention of the word marijuana.
The atmosphere of absurd unpredictability that emerges is comparable to the mood of Iannucci's film.
By situating such a character at the center of a story about human adaptation to global warming, McEwan offers a cynical view: while people are responsible for pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, it's absurd to think that we'll be able to save the planet from the carbon beast we've let loose.
As Ingrid Schaffner, one of the show's curators, riffs in her catalog essay, this has led the artists on view (there are about 60) to investigate "absence, anarchy, the absurd, nonsense, zip, zero, infinity, atmosphere, ellipsis, negation, annihilation, whiteness, blackness, formlessness, the void, abjection, the invisible" -- the list goes on.
Those naughty getups conjure an atmosphere both erotically charged and absurd.
This is a bizarre film in many ways with baffling and sometimes absurd emotional moments – but with a radioactive atmosphere of pure, nauseous evil.
That almost absurd pause to notice the extraordinary even in an atmosphere of filth and great danger is pure Hughes.
This sort of futility has often tugged the atmosphere at the ballpark into the realm of the absurd, and the quirkiness continued early Saturday.
This tribalism invariably resulted in an atmosphere of 'them and us' in which it was absurd even to discuss matters with any member of the opposing tribe.
Instead of investing in the future, we throw money away on absurd luxuries, finance corrupt and hostile oil-rich countries, pollute our atmosphere and increase our trade deficit.
