Sentence examples for absurd details from inspiring English sources

To be fair, there are plenty of genuinely absurd details in the diarists' spending habits.

By now it's clear that catastrophe enters your life in a jumble of profound facts and absurd details.

Like a riotous, careening night out, full of bellowing laughter and absurd details, this is a book you'll be talking about for years to come.

Perhaps it is only through such absurd details that we can really get a handle on the horror of the experience.

While many Americans have had to make the same transition across the Pond, it is hard to beat the absurd details of the journey that the affable 24-year-old experienced.

That comic approach -- precise observations of characters and the gloriously absurd details of their lives, presented without a single wink at the audience -- is why "Guffman" and other films written and directed by Mr. Guest are so hilarious.

Le Fanu, unlike Hesselius, is fully aware of the ridiculous side of the story, which nevertheless builds from fussy, slightly absurd detail to a frightening, unsettling climax.

That Wendy was at a spa, in a hot tub with Clark Gable's widow, when her sister Sandra revealed this to her is the kind of absurd detail that will keep you reading.

The amateur photographer in Arizona often finds that an absurd detail creeps into the viewfinder – a sign to the Flintstones Theme Park in the middle of the mountains, say, or an ostrich petting zoo next to a four-lane highway.

Aymer used to be in a double act with Marcus Powell, one of the best character comics in the business, and, although they've since gone their separate ways, they share an instinct for absurd detail.

At which point you may consider the strain of being compelled to launch into a manic, inspired riff on whatever absurd detail it was that caught his attention in the first place.