Sentence examples for absurd clothes from inspiring English sources

In Arthur Penn's vastly underrated but nonetheless awful 1976 movie The Missouri Breaks, Marlon Brando so completely dominates the action with his ridiculous Irish brogue, his absurd clothes, his iconoclastic gunslinger swagger and his cryptic avuncularity that nobody else can get a word in edgewise.

The entrepreneurial "Parks and Rec" character started his own business of renting his absurd clothes to teens so they can look great for cheap.

He's a sweet, clownish romantic who wears absurd, peacocky American clothes (a frilly red tuxedo shirt, plaid pants), and for whom driving fast is a crazy thrill.

To say that Mr. Lagerfeld brings a strong element of creativity to his clothes sounds absurd.

By page seven of his memoir, also called Million Dollar Arm, he's bragging in American Psycho-like detail about his designer clothes and absurd watch collection ("30 timepieces, lined up as neatly as soldiers … Patek Philippe, Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Breitling – the reward I gave myself for doing well").

How typical of you and your feeble servility towards the pathetic silliness of propriety that you should care more for the laundering of clothes – those absurd chains that keep man from his true self – than for the sex-flow that keeps man alive and is the only honest expression of animal energy that exists on this miserable globe.

Instead, the parade was mostly populated by journalists, local and foreign politicians, absurd amounts of plain-clothes police officers and activists from abroad, while the Serbians themselves stayed at home.

Having spent however much money on those clothes, it seems absurd to wear them for only six months and then chuck them away.

It may have been the mood I was in, but the idea of it made me sad: clowns with their absurd and artless smiles, their shabby, outlandish clothes.

The answers are heartfelt and absurd at the same time: shopping for clothes, professional makeup applications (she now stops by the Laura Mercier counter before events), tennis in Manhattan, monthly hair color, weekly manicures, daily housekeepers, Starbucks and vacations all around.

"While the gilded rooms and satin clothes look sumptuous if often suitably absurd, almost clownish, the people in them breathe," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in July.