M.M.S. is charged with collecting royalties from Big Oil even as it regulates it — an absurd conflict right there.
The ministry of defence, which gobbles up money in prodigious amounts, not least on the absurd conflict in Afghanistan, has three ongoing capital-hungry projects: the Typhoon strike aircraft for the RAF, two replacement aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, and the renewal of the Trident nuclear-armed submarine flotilla.
Not, of course, in any real ways — the level of similarity between Macs and PCs really makes the whole conflict absurd — but in ways that are nonetheless obvious to the average user.
Charlotte's dilemma -- the inner battle she wages daily between her sexual impulses and the flesh-denying dictates of her beliefs -- is merely a more absurd version of the conflicts besetting all the characters.
In Sharon's view, the idea that Israel could bring about an end to the conflict was absurd.
It is absurd to assert a "conflict" that would render a Board Member unqualified based either on ownership or a sense of urgency to repair a company that has been – by your own admission – languishing for years.
Kiev is trying to return to normalcy by telling Euromaidan to move on, but it's moves like this that drive tourists to absurd monuments of the conflict like the Mezhyhirya Residence.
It's a spectacle of the absurd engineered specifically to incite conflicts between famous people or to shock the more conservative-minded viewer.
In making the war and terror of the Crusaders and Jihadis his film's deciding principle in the rise and decline of political and religious fortunes, Shawky is participating, whether intently or inadvertently, in a global defense and redefinition of spirituality as an existential response to the contradictions and conflicts of an absurd world unresponsive to the individual and collective wills.
"To try and import the Middle East conflict here is absurd," he said.
In any larger view, Chomsky's view of the US as the fountainhead of human conflict is as absurd as the Bush aide's belief that America can create its own reality.
