Now older and wiser, I like the self-parody that Roger Moore brought to the role; I always found the "serious" Bonds – Connery, Lazenby, Dalton – out of kilter with the hyper-absurd environments they were anchored in.
Like Walter Mitty in reverse, Kennedy constantly retreats from an absurd corporate environment — equal parts tyranny, vanity and fecklessness — into neurotic internal-reality checks even funnier than the folly all around him.
Not to mention, an influx of people generates an absurd living environment for anyone who wants to work in that area.
Ganesh Baron works with virtual reality mazes that task users with escaping absurd, metaphysical environments by interacting with different objects around them.
Your contention that casinos in Sullivan County would hurt the environment is absurd.
"That statement that the Keystone pipeline would mean 'game over' for the environment is absurd," he said.
Unfortunately, in today's political environment, even absurd arguments have the power to delay or derail vital reforms.
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, a former soldier and intelligence analyst, said increasing spending in a tight fiscal environment was "absurd".
"The Chinese government's claims that our actions are improper and protectionist, and that its illegal subsidies and massive dumping of solar product are helping the global economy and the environment, are absurd," said Gordon Brinser, the chief executive of SolarWorld Industries America, the lead company in the coalition.
The idea of relying on the assurances of these corporate predators that they are looking out for the safety of their workers and the health of surrounding communities and the environment is beyond absurd.
The underlying assumption that considers the individual separate from the environment is an absurd assumption that erodes that bond between the individual and community, which ultimately is the source of the authentic self (Slater 1970: 15; Sisk 1973).
