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The phrase "absurd characters" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals in a story, play, or any narrative that exhibit strange, ridiculous, or nonsensical traits or behaviors.
Example: "The novel is filled with absurd characters that challenge the reader's perception of reality."
Alternatives: "ridiculous figures" or "ludicrous personalities".
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Chapman, often shown wearing a tweed jacket and smoking a pipe, perfected absurd characters, notably the Army Colonel and Raymond Luxury-Yacht.
Many of the absurd characters in Evelyn Waugh's blackly comic novels, the reader comes to realize, were drawn from — or at least inspired by — life.
His antiheroes, labouring against an indifferent or downright hostile workaday world, come on like worthy descendants of proto-surrealist Alfred Jarry's absurd characters.
She created deliciously absurd characters like the silkily self-possessed network executive Jack Donaghy, played brilliantly by Alec Baldwin, and the insane comedian Tracy Jordan, played by Tracy Morgan, by grafting familiar show-business phenotypes onto those actors' inner nuttiness.
He insisted on precise and authentic sets and costumes, which provided a foundation to ground and focus his absurd characters and situations.
Theirs is another show of largely joke-free material, propped-up by frantic physical performances and bloated, absurd characters.
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Even if it's an absurd character, there's a belief system".
But as the weeks have gone on, Olivia has become an absurd character.
And don't forget the media: sports sections run absurd, character-buttressing portraits of antisocial man-children.
Iggy Pop "Gardenia" (Loma Vista) Iggy Pop's collaboration with Josh Homme yielded this absurd character study — or is it a love song?
Volumes of nonsense verse include Galgenlieder (1905; "Gallows Songs"); Palmström (1910), named for an absurd character; and three volumes published posthumously: Palma Kunkel (1916), Der Gingganz (1919), and Die Schallmühle (1928; "The Noise Mill"), all collected in Alle Galgenlieder (1932).
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