Sentence examples for absurd combination of from inspiring English sources

They had money to spend, and yet an absurd combination of convention, prejudice, faux concern, and fear kept them from where they most wanted to be.

When one of the book's characters announces a plan to study Elizabethan drama, psychology and detection simultaneously, the reply is: "An absurd combination of interests.

While eating some absurd combination of food (or so it then struck me; no doubt it would seem quite ordinary now), I wondered aloud whether, at my advanced age, I would ever have any new relationships to look forward to.

Though Glasgow are unlikely to qualify from this tough pool, Nakarawa's absurd combination of strength, skill with ball in hand and nous will be key to their hopes of retaining the Pro12 title he was so crucial to them winning last season.

Worse, a joint internet and transport portfolio is "an absurd combination, which stems from the outmoded idea of 'data highways'," the paper says.

Bathos, bawdy and the absurd – a combination of uncommon felicity, as if Jane Austen were rewriting Terry Pratchett: snorts and chortles plus elegant eyebrow-raising.

"Bathos, bawdy and the absurd – a combination of uncommon felicity, as if Jane Austen were rewriting Terry Pratchett: snorts and giggles plus elegant eyebrow-raising," wrote Ian Sansom.

From these results, we infer whether there are checks on absurd combinations in absence of an established connection.

It matters little that the creature is not really pale like the horse of death because one is riveted by its absurd and unsettling combination of items such as deer antlers and horse legs while animal jaws comprise its midsection.

Döblin's approach to narrating the war differed from prevailing historiography in that, rather than interpreting the Thirty Years' War primarily as a religious conflict, he portrays it critically as the absurd consequence of a combination of national-political, financial, and individual psychological factors.

It was the template for his early and, so far, most enjoyable films, in which a quiet victim of Japan's long economic stasis finds himself at the center of a violent and weirdly comical spiral of events, pushed on by some combination of frustration, absurd chains of coincidence and the working man's stereotypically tremendous intake of beer, sake and whiskey.