Sentence examples for absurd clash from inspiring English sources

Anderson revels in the absurd clash of period details: the prodigious countercultural indulgence in sex, drugs, and protest, the raw menace of neo-Nazi bikers, and the punitive moralism of establishment authorities.

A series of "absurd" clashes followed, starting with another confrontation between Stephen and Radu on November 18 20, at Râmnicu Sărat, where the latter suffered his second defeat at the hands of the Moldavian "warlike" prince.

Avoid clashing.

They were loners bucking the system, struggling with a bureaucracy that saddled them with absurd rules and clashing with superiors who could be counted on, about halfway through a given episode, to bark, "You're off the case".

The aphorism is "patently absurd," Professor Whitney declares, given that interests are at least as likely to clash as coincide, and he sets off on an exploration of how Man Alone squares with Man in Society.

This culture clash runs deep and statements executives in Switzerland sometimes utter can sound absurd at best.

Hostilities between India and Pakistan, clashes between their armies on the Line of Control, and rigid, absurd rules have destroyed the trade across the Line of Control and led to massive losses for Kashmiri traders.

Ryanair, which has frequently clashed with the ASA, appears to enjoy goading a regulator it calls Absurd Silly Asses.

This from Annie Dillard's historical fiction about a clash of cultures in Puget sound during the late 1800s may seem at once reckless, silly, or absurd; some may even find it downright disgusting!

Diary clash?

Sound absurd?