Sentence examples for absurd creatures from inspiring English sources

TO MOST people, bumblebees are charming, slightly absurd creatures that blunder through garden and meadow with neither the steely determination of the honeybee nor the malevolent intention of the wasp.

This absurd creature suggests being more humble about the kinds of knowledge claims we make with biosensing.

Thomas Carlyle described Whistler as "the most absurd creature on the face of the earth", but his serene urban nocturnes and elegiac portraits seem remote from his chaotic life.

He would always suffer, Wall writes, from the indignity of being that absurd creature, "a romantic anarchist with a modest private income," and this costly expedition had depleted his capital.

His sister, Jet, is an equally absurd creature, a morbidly possessive woman who once stabbed one of her lovers and who has been diagnosed variously as a "border-line" personality and a "latent paranoid schizophrenic".

It seems pretty clear when Seuss's absurd man-creature finally tries and loves Sam-I-Am Sam-I-Am Sam-I-Ame.

More than 95percentnt of the reptiles and amphibians on Madagascar are unique to the island, along with countless other creatures, absurd and magnificent, that crawl, slither, walk, swim and fly.

We forget that we are all absurd and vulnerable creatures.

But that is to ignore the fact that the old man is an absurd and pathetic creature whose life has lost its meaning after the deaths of his wife and son - and of his class.

Ms. Schutz has become a reliable conjurer of wickedly grotesque creatures and absurd situations, willed into existence by her vigorous and wildly colorful brush strokes.

(Rosenberg) ★ Neuberger Museum of Art: 'Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels' (through Dec. 18) The painter Dana Schutz has become a reliable conjurer of wickedly grotesque creatures and absurd situations, willed into existence by her vigorous and wildly colorful brush strokes.