Watching a man build something may not sound like great entertainment, but the absurd pleasure Horne takes in his endeavour – and the lightly cerebral, thoroughly daffy tales he chucks in along the way – make this a delight.
The audience laps up her character's absurd narcissism, delighting in the way Masha sprinkles Splenda over every patronizing swipe at her beloved brother and sister.
In the end, the turbines didn't really add anything to the show, except an absurd sense of delight each time you looked up at the white blades.
Handily, they also help explain the egomaniacal narcissism that is having children as well as the absurd love and delight the enterprise engenders.
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Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone also delight in juxtaposing absurd inventions (tampons made out of Cherokee hair) with absurdities that are in fact true (the North American Man-Boy Love Association), and blurring the distinctions between truth and invention.
It also called on the same skills quick thinking, refusal to be embarrassed, delight in the absurd.
It was a reminder that, alongside the immense sophistication of Ligeti's music, there was always his childlike delight in the absurd, and a wicked sense of humour.
It was with Beware of the Vet (1982) that her zany sense of humour and delight in the absurd was first fully unleashed.
Parr has built his reputation on punchy, super-saturated images that simultaneously expose and delight in the absurd comedy of everyday life, and his use of fill-flash to illuminate his subjects has long been a defining characteristic of his aesthetic.
Our evolution into older people does not necessarily mean that we learn impulse control or stop delighting in the absurd.
