Sentence examples for absurd conditions from inspiring English sources

"These candidates must carry a tune in absurd conditions, without being distracted and if possible until ejaculation.

Though he then nearly drowned in absurd conditions at Punchestown, he will surely be a force over hurdles with a suitable emphasis on speed.

Lawler's photographs combine a lacerating eye for the absurd conditions in which works of art find themselves — from collectors' homes to storage facilities — with an empathy for the frailty of the human condition.

R. 'The Five Obstructions' In April 2001 the Danish director Lars von Trier asked one of his teachers, the documentarist Jorgen Leth, to participate in a formal experiment: Mr. Leth would take his wryly misanthropic 1967 short "The Perfect Human" and remake it under various absurd conditions imposed by Mr. von Trier.

"Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now" and "Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait," at MOMA Lawler's photographs combine a lacerating eye for the absurd conditions in which works of art find themselves — from collectors' homes to storage facilities — with an empathy for the frailty of the human condition.

In recounting her adventures as a reporter in one of the most dangerous regions of the world, the author captures both the serious and the seriously absurd conditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, using black humor to convey the sad-awful-frequently-insane incongruities of war.

In Ohio, this created an absurd condition.

The latter half of the story develops a specifically Algerian version of the absurd condition, a commentary on post-colonial failures.

It’s not just a sign of an absurd condition, it is a prerequisite.” The problem is that when commodity prices first started to increase, the so-called smart money suddenly rediscovered them as an asset class.

A show like that could also portray the crippling social isolation many people feel trying to make a normal life in the absurd, awful conditions of a boomtown.

Those absurd working conditions we associate with the Kafkaesque -- bureaucratic cul-de-sacs, depersonalizing cubicles, psychic suffocation -- have been brilliantly visualized in recent years in the drawings of David Bailin.