Sentence examples for absurd edge from inspiring English sources

By giving the tragic heroine an absurd edge, Kraus is able to tackle some serious stuff.

"We thought that a little bit of vulgarity helped to give the piece an absurd edge".

"Wrapped in Plastic" by Morgan Miller of New City is mildly sinister but ultimately has an absurd edge.

There are even times when the courtroom footage takes on an absurd edge, as when the spectators purport to annoy the judge by repeatedly singing "Kumbaya". Mr. Sheen's judge feigns violent distress.

"We've long been gripped by the strange game of playing dead; that particular absurd edge of theatre in which the performers are charged with approaching the one thing, which above all others, perhaps, can't ever be convincingly represented".

It's absurd to suggest that an edge that can only be detected by HotSpot or Snicko is a glaring error.

Apple announced a new iPod shuffle Wednesday that takes the Cupertino, Calif.-based gizmo maker's stripped-down sensibility to the edge of the absurd.

Beyond the films and music, there was another category of events that bent the mind further, to the very edge where the absurd and the profound mingle and marry.

Fans showered Gatlin with boos after he ruined Usain Bolt's farewell race, but the outrage edges toward the absurd.

"Republicans are edged into such an absurd cul-de-sac because there is no effective space for them in the public arena," complained the marxist Tom Nairn 20 years ago.

The line, as they say, brings down the house, not just because Ms. Ashley's flair for the absurd is as sharp as her cutting edge.