This may seem like progress, but it could also be regarded as a kind of absurd end state for Aristotelian thinking.
It all came to a fittingly absurd end when the Seattle Seahawks won a game against the Green Bay Packers by throwing a touchdown that wasn't.
So on his deathbed Van Gogh claimed he had killed himself, perhaps out of weary despair, or a desire not to make posthumous trouble for the neighbourhood, or perhaps simply to avoid the ignominy of an absurd end, and claim the awful glamour of suicide.
In the context of talking about shipping containers (and to take that metaphor to its absurd end), that's akin to having a big container ship with lots of little pools that all feature their own small specialized container ship.
Few will come to the defense of banks being hit by anti-money laundering fines but this latest one likely to be imposed upon Standard Chartered is very definitely towards the more absurd end of the range of such fines.
In the context of talking about shipping containers (and to take that metaphor to its absurd end), that's akin to having a big container ship with lots of little pools that all feature their own small specialized container ship.
Trump had already leveraged his fame so far beyond his actual status as a second ― or third-tier ― New York real estate developer and soon-to-be-bankrupt casino operator, that the idea of basing a Saturday morning cartoon on his public persona must have seemed like the absurd end point.
Last month, when Newsweek.com broke the story that Sony Pictures had fabricated not just blurbs for movies but also the critic who coined them, it was simply the absurd end of a trivializing process that had been going on for decades.
