The phrase "absurd effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an effort that is unreasonable, illogical, or excessive in nature.
Example: "Despite the absurd effort he put into the project, the results were far from satisfactory."
Alternatives: "futile attempt" or "ridiculous endeavor".
67 min: Absurd effort by Panstil, who lets fly from 40 yards, with hilarious consequences.
The most risible instance occurred in 2009 when, in an absurd effort to prevent the spread of swine flu, the government decided to slaughter all pigs in Egypt.
The London press treated the work as a comically labor-intensive one-liner, a monument less to the pope's absurd burden than to the artist's absurd effort.
To many, it will seem an absurd effort.
In an absurd effort to compare apples and oranges, I present a series of film reviews where two films that have nothing to do with each go head-to-head for a showdown.
Every year around the holidays, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, confers its Ebenezer Award for the most egregious and absurd effort to expel faith from the public square.
Later, Clinton accused Sanders of standing with "Minutemen vigilantes in their ridiculous, absurd efforts to, quote, 'hunt down immigrants,' which led to a heated exchange.
Three decades ago, while Washington funded the contra forces in Nicaragua, absurd efforts to smear the elected left-wing Sandinistas knew no rhetorical bounds.
Wang followed Sparrow for one summer and documented the government's terrifying yet oftentimes absurd efforts to suppress her: In one scene, a mysterious, angry mob suddenly appears at Sparrow's apartment, rattling her front door like bogeys in a horror movie, and the 41-year-old's only recourse is to defend herself and her daughter with a giant kitchen knife.
A few Canadians from Vityaz Chekhov, a club from the Moscow suburbs, have been terrorizing the K.H.L. since its inception with regular, borderline-absurd efforts at violence.
Heedless of the lesson, the Republicans launched the absurd impeachment effort that contributed to losses in the 1998 midterms, against every historical trend.
