Sentence examples for absurd characteristics from inspiring English sources

He lists his absurd characteristics as well as his good ones, and never spares himself the description of a moment of humiliation or silliness.

"This has reached such proportions and acquired such absurd characteristics that it's possible to speak of a return to the dark times of the Cold War".

This episode also brought out his most alarming and sometimes absurd characteristic, the Cassandra complex coupled with a penchant for Delphic utterance.

In 1959, the commander commented in a study: "It is absurd to contend that the characteristics demonstrated by the Negroes" will not "undermine and deteriorate the white army unit into which the Negro is integrated".

His manoeuvres are both comically absurd and somehow threatening (a characteristic Mantel mix).

Other experts who have tested the calculator found absurd results; even patients with healthy characteristics would be deemed candidates for statins.

In it he strikes a characteristic note of delicately absurd artificiality, while a deliberate disproportion between language and subject pays comic dividends and sets a good-humoured and sympathetic tone.

The reader is left with the uncomfortable recognition that the very characteristics that make Angel so absurd saved her from a life spent pulling on Madam's stockings.

Proponents of hate crime legislation say the specter of hate crimes motivated by characteristics like height is, well, absurd.

The sense of hopelessness that lurks in the margins of his work is modified not only by the pint glass and the tobacco tin - though few Kelman fictions are without them - but by a characteristic Glaswegian feeling for the absurd.

He stressed its absurd and utopian character: According to Guhrauer, Leibniz's general characteristic must almost be seen as on a par with the philosopher's stone and the secrets of producing gold.