Sentence examples for absurd by from inspiring English sources

For the bill is absurd by design.

Bach.As for the opera, Mr Denk admits it is "absurd by definition".

"This is getting more absurd by the minute," said the judge.

While these monikers may sound heavy-handed, Ms. Farooki makes them genially absurd by putting them in context.

One involved Mr. Akins's assertion — dismissed as "absurd" by Mr. Kissinger — that Mr. Kissinger had approved of Iran's raising oil prices to buy American arms.

Ryan Grigson, the new general manager, even veered into the absurd by claiming he and owner Jim Irsay haven't even discussed it.

This would have been all the more absurd because, by nature and by conviction, I believe in the power of ideas and, even more, that of the truth.

To win election and reelection he bought into the tax-cutting model started by Reagan and carried to absurd excess by Bush.

Peter Chilcott is a man with a great passion for his work; his world view is very dark, but it's counterbalanced by a great curiosity, by his whimsy and sense of the absurd, and by his love for Nathalie.

Against that is the absurd argument by neocons that Iranians are innately suicidal, driven mad by their faith.

(The most astringent irony of the whole enterprise is one that's basically incidental to it: the indirect and absurd route by which all these aspiring novelists have wound up getting published by Penguin).