Sentence examples for absurd contests from inspiring English sources

Carefully assorted contestants of colorfully divergent backgrounds cohabitate for several weeks and are encouraged to find a true love from among the other competitors through a series of absurd contests.

But research on the competitive nature of international sporting events shows it is closer to George Orwell's view of "the sporting spirit" as mimic warfare, focusing on the attitude of the spectators and nations "who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue ".

As she prepares for the Feminine Woman of Conscience beauty pageant, this first novel's gloomy 14-year-old narrator starts to have serious qualms about an absurd contest in which girls perform oral sex on blowup men and sacrifice rabbits they've raised as pets.

(Inbox Zero is another absurd contest to tackle at another time).

We've bought it, but it didn't stop us from wondering about other things, like absurd eating contests, impulse buys, unimagined uses for mustard, storage, preservatives, notions of bigness and dozens of other ideas both silly and serious.

The prosecutor, Col Michael Mulligan, stood up and defended Hasan's strategy, saying Hasan would have been "absurd" to contest the facts of what happened that day.

But, if theatre really is some sort of absurd jealousy contest, it often feels that we Brits can only compete at all for two reasons: 1) the plays of William Shakespeare, and, more surprisingly, 2) the seminal, Sheffield-based experimental theatre group Forced Entertainment.

The absurd spending contest is a total lose-lose situation.

Perhaps the very idea of a Eurovision song contest is absurd.

Some people on both sides of the Middle East divide yesterday described the battle over the photo contest as absurd and a waste of energy.

There is a tough contest for absurd national-security note of the day: is it Blackwater allegedly hiring a Filipino prostitute with taxpayer money, or the Transportation Security Administration apparently detaining a student because he was carrying Arabic flash cards?